{"id":155949,"date":"2016-11-02T17:26:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=155949"},"modified":"2016-11-02T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:26:06","slug":"bustles-guide-to-arguing-with-pro-lifers-fails-on-every-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bustles-guide-to-arguing-with-pro-lifers-fails-on-every-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Bustle’s guide to arguing with pro-lifers fails on every level"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At Bustle, JR Thorpe purports<\/a> to help readers \u201cargue effectively with some of the most common ways in which people try to deny the importance of abortion access.\u201d Here, we\u2019ll put her tips through the paces and show that their effectiveness leaves much to be desired:<\/p>\n

Anybody who says that abortion is dangerous to the mother\u00a0can just be directed to Marie Stopes’ informative website<\/a>, where the extremely low risks of surgical and nonsurgical abortions are laid out in great detail for their perusal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That, by the way, would be the same Marie Stopes that halted its surgical abortions in August<\/a> after it came out that their staff was inadequately trained, so take their safety assurances with a grain of salt (they resumed in October<\/a>\u2026\u00a0before<\/em> the release of a report on the matter, so who knows what, if any, steps they really took to shape up).<\/p>\n

Further, abortion\u2019s vaunted safety (for the mother) flies in the face of evidence<\/a> that abortion reporting is marred by wildly inconsistent (and sometimes nonexistent) standards for abortion data reporting<\/a> and misclassification of abortion-related deaths as simply \u201cpregnancy-related,\u201d as well as studies finding that abortion increases risks to the mother\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

[The argument] that abortion creates a way to escape responsibility for one’s actions, and converts the serious matter of pregnancy into a disposable problem with no repercussions [\u2026] is actually contradicting other pro-life arguments, which argue that abortion is highly traumatic and difficult for the woman’s psyche and body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously? The vast majority of abortions<\/a> are expressly sought to escape pregnancy, childbirth, and\/or parenthood; the fact that the procedure may inflict physical and mental harm<\/a> on them\u2014risks their friendly neighborhood Planned Parenthood either neglected to mention or falsely claimed wouldn\u2019t happen\u2014doesn\u2019t contradict that in the slightest.<\/p>\n

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