BEING ANTI-ABORTION DOESN’T MAKE YOU “pRO-lIFE” WORDS MATTER!
Christians and Non-Christians — The Truth About Abortion, Do You Know?
Why the Discussion About Abortion Isn’t a Discussion at All?
Did you know people that want to talk to you about abortion typically don’t want to talk to you about abortion?
They want to talk to you about their faith; many blame it on Jesus. They want to persuade you to feel something — usually, it’s more about proselytizing (converting) than anything to do with abortion.
First, let’s talk with the same words. All of the definitions for this article are from Merriam-Webster. You can find their website here. I chose this dictionary because it is known for being factual and reliable, and most people are familiar with it.
I’ve embedded the definition of a few essential words with hyperlinks. I think that being able to research and learn is our superpower. The better you use your superpowers, the stronger it becomes!
Proselytizing is defined as inducing someone to convert to one’s faith.
Abortion is a word that has been weaponized.
To be honest, it pisses me off to hear young men whining about abortion to gain views and strum up followers. If you don’t have a uterus, you’ve no right to direct the use and care of a uterus.
Abortion is a medical procedure that can only be performed on a female body, and the word itself has been weaponized.
They employed emotionally charged language and imagery to manipulate people into sympathizing with the anti-abortion movement. It is a form of psychological coercion that capitalizes on the natural instinctive response of women to the sight of dead babies. It is a blatantly devious tactic that uses the human body’s physiological reaction to elicit an emotional response.
In and of itself, the word “abortion” is a Call To Action one way or another. Few words in our language have the power of that single word.
Medical terminology has been turned into a weapon aimed at the ones it’s meant to protect!
Let’s have a real conversation. We need to find a way to stop letting people use weaponized words and neuromarketing to do the most damage with the word “abortion.”
From Wikipedia — Neuromarketing is a commercial marketing communication field that applies neuropsychology to market research, studying consumers’ sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective responses to marketing stimuli.
It’s incredibly misleading, and I’ll tell you why.
They don’t care about those little pink babies. If they did, they would care about the whole baby. The baby grows into a toddler, that grows into a school-aged child, and then a teenager, and finally, into an adult. If you do not care for the child's life, you cannot claim to care for the fetus.
The people who use the word abortion to get you to support their cause but do not consider the entire life of that baby — are a fraud.
Let’s focus on the children born because of these new “abortion laws,” which will soon sweep the nation in 2023.
What happens to the children born to women who cannot afford to take care of them? What about those babies that were unwanted, unplanned for, and unprepared for?
What happens to our social system when unwanted children overburden it? Everyone will pay. People in the Blue States will be paying for the increased social burdens placed on the nation by the Red States.
When you remove a woman's reproductive rights, you’ve reduced her. Whether you like it or not, once a woman has a baby, she alone is responsible for him/her. The system doesn’t consistently require the male portion of the baby-making requirements to have the full involvement of the mother.
So let’s force a woman to have that baby; she didn’t make it alone — but is solely responsible.
A man cannot ever be a single mother. The reason men have no right in this conversation. They can be single parents, but not single mothers. It’s just not the same — starting with inequality in pay, resources and support.
When it’s time to buy diapers and formula, time for child care, and adequate education for the mother so she can be a good role model, the people that insist that she have that baby are long gone.
They cut social programs, then shamed the women for needing those programs and for not doing better for themselves.
It’s a terrible, shameful cycle that men are NEVER subjected to.
We are having a hard enough time raising children that are planned for, wanted, and prepared for! It’s hard being a mom! Where is the support for the children that need us now? Where are those legislators?
They are silent because taking care of those kids is doing its job! The biggest concern is using weaponized words to move you against or for things that are not real, true, or realistic.
Why would groups of people use these words as weapons?
It’s always been about money.
Abortion is an amazing fundraising tactic. Because it’s a call to action, it’s the ability to open wallets and bring tears as the checks get signed. Because once a baby is no longer a fetus, they no longer care.
Proving that it’s just a fundraising technique.
We must consider the whole child to say that we are pro-life.
So, why do they use abortion to try so hard to convince people that they should follow Jesus, like them? Because someone told them wrongly that shouting things repeatedly at people will get them what they want and keep them confused from seeing things they don’t want to see.
Abortion propaganda — cause it isn’t a discussion — should be considered hate speech because wanting to force women to bear the sole responsibility of a child when we do not do the same to men is a crock.
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said that he was going to abolish rape.
That hasn’t happened.
It’s not going to happen.
And women deserve to be protected by lawmakers and from lawmakers of outrageous laws, lies, and legal misconduct. Where is the outrage that rapists are still raping? That’s where your outrage should be!
Pretty Words don’t feed those hungry babies. Pretty Words doesn't provide diapers or childcare. Pretty Words doesn't teach you how to parent. Pretty words won’t make an unwanted child want. Pretty Words will not make a house into a home.
These rabid-dog-fundraisers don’t want to wear a mask because it’s inconvenient and yet want women to Thank God for being raped and getting pregnant. A pregnancy they didn’t want, plan or have a choice in, then to have a baby, they alone are responsible for? On what planet does that make sense?
Are you caring for the fetus if you insist on the birth but provide no support after that?
Obviously, he’s never been raped.
Maybe, I’m the one preaching to the choir. People who like to have men tell them right from wrong probably won’t take the time to read this article.
I am a mom, and I have a daughter. I want her to be educated, informed, and supported in every decision she makes for her body because she is the only one who will ultimately bear responsibility for her life.
Men need to sit this discussion out. Stop using abortion to gain followers and influence over things you have no idea what you’re speaking about. Stop using abortion to weaponize your faith. It’s unbecoming. Stop using abortion for fundraising.
Children right now this minute are hungry, abused, and discarded at an alarming rate. At the same time, we have men and women running for office using weaponized words to get a gut-wrenching-check-writing response from you.
A planned result of this tactic is to convince their audience that they are doing God’s work. It is supposed to make you think they’re believable, someone you can trust.
In law, the totality of the circumstances test refers to a method of analysis where decisions are based on all available information rather than bright-line rules.[1] Under the totality of the circumstances test, courts focus “on all the circumstances of a particular case, rather than any one factor”.[2] In the United States, totality tests are used as a method of analysis in several different areas of the law.[3] For example, in United States criminal law, a determination about reasonable suspicion or probable cause is based on a consideration of the totality of the circumstances.[4] from Wikipedia
Anyone who doesn’t want dead babies must be someone you can let guide you, tell you who to believe and trust.
Not if they are lying to you, to begin with! Then it’s impossible to miss that their entire effort was indeed intended to mislead, gain followers, and money.
In the end, none of the people who use these tactics help babies, children, or women, for that matter.
More lies.
It’s all more emotional blackmail to get more and do less.
By the way, let’s not forget the natural progression of abortion lies.
The babies born in these circumstances are not wanted or provided for. The women forced into poverty because of circumstances out of their control have no provision. What happens to them? Who cares for these people that have had their lives decided by someone with no clue, no vested interest, and are risking nothing while making laws that will never touch their own lives?
Here is an easy way to think about it.
Do you like bacon and eggs?
I love bacon and eggs, do you? I think about it this way, are you the pig or the chicken? The chicken contributes to the meal, but the pig sacrifices to be the meal.
FYI; in this metaphor, politicians are the avocado- they don’t really add much unless you just like avocados.
In the end, politicians win, and the babies lose. How is that Jesus?
The answer to the abortion discussion is that it is a medical procedure that is NOT used as birth control; that’s a myth, and you can read all about it below —
MYTH: Women have abortions for selfish or frivolous reasons. The decision to have an abortion is rarely simple. Most women base their decision on several factors, the most common being lack of money and/or unreadiness to start or expand their families due to existing responsibilities. Many feel that the most responsible course of action is to wait until their situation is more suited to childrearing; 66% plan to have children when they are older, financially able to provide necessities for them, and/or in a supportive relationship with a partner so their children will have two parents8 . Others wanted to get pregnant but developed serious medical problems, learned that the fetus had severe abnormalities, or experienced some other personal crisis. About 13,000 women each year have abortions because they have become pregnant as a result of rape or incest .
In fact, the biggest misconception is that outlawing abortion will reduce the need for abortion. Nope! It only reduces safe abortions, putting more lives at stake.
Ultimately, the discussion of abortion should be between a female and her doctor. No lawmaker or wanna-be-lawmaker has any business talking about abortion unless she speaks to her doctor privately.
My call to action, think for yourself. Break the power of weaponized words and help others do the same. All women need us to be respectful, kind, and supportive of the importance of being a woman.
Do your homework. Don’t be lied to. Don’t be persuaded by techniques of manipulation, browbeating, or neuromarketing to make you feel something when the reality is not what they are chanting so loud to distract you from the point — they are just trying to get your money. Money the children will never see while the politicians will get richer.
If you care about fetuses, you have to care about them all — — even if they are poor, disabled, LGBTQ, or whatever else may have been decided at the time to make people living under the laws less valuable than the ones making the laws.
You either care for the entire human life cycle, no matter the circumstances, or you lie.
Words matter.
