{"id":187300,"date":"2018-08-22T05:24:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=187300"},"modified":"2018-08-23T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T17:44:45","slug":"oprah-winfrey-magazine-shout-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/oprah-winfrey-magazine-shout-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick: Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s magazine encourages women to celebrate abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The &#8220;Inspiration&#8221; section of a magazine isn&#8217;t typically the place one would think to look for a story about being proud of killing one&#8217;s own child &#8212; but apparently, Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s &#8220;O&#8221; Magazine feels otherwise. CNS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/blog\/craig-bannister\/oprah-magazines-inspiration-article-promotes-shoutyourabortion-movement\">reports<\/a> that in the magazine&#8217;s July 2018 issue,\u00a0Amelia Bonow, founder of the #Shout Your Abortion movement, shares her story of unintentionally sparking the movement by sharing her &#8220;nearly inexpressible level of gratitude&#8221; to Planned Parenthood for her abortion on social media.<\/p>\n<p>In the story, also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/inspiration\/how-one-woman-became-an-activist-with-the-hashtag-shoutyourabortion_1#ixzz5OqGx4dnB\">published online<\/a> at Oprah.com, Bonow states that since her teens, she had been a longtime supporter of Planned Parenthood &#8220;and of women&#8217;s reproductive freedom in general.&#8221; And, predictably, when she became pregnant, she turned again to the same organization that, as a teen, she had turned to for her &#8220;sexual and reproductive healthcare.&#8221; In Bonow&#8217;s story, Planned Parenthood is made out as some sort of savior, when the truth is, Planned Parenthood gives teens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/what-we-do\/investigations\/disturbing-advice-on-sex\/\">dangerous sex advice<\/a> and even returns minor victims to their abusers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E-Z8KlRUn6A\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bonow claims she &#8220;wasn&#8217;t ashamed&#8221; of her abortion and that she didn&#8217;t tell anyone about her abortion because she&#8217;d &#8220;internalized the stigma&#8221; society supposedly has against abortion. But Bonow then contradicts herself, claiming that &#8220;nearly one in four women&#8221; has aborted, and that &#8220;95 percent [of them] have reported feeling that it was the right decision.&#8221; If <em>so many<\/em> women have aborted and pretty much nobody regrets anything (or so she says, with no links to support her assertions), then how can Bonow blame her silence on this so-called, elusive, societal &#8220;stigma&#8221;? She does it by claiming that &#8220;[a]nti-choice politicians have dominated the dialogue because many people think they don\u2019t know anyone who\u2019s had an abortion&#8230;. [but] all sorts of people have abortions, including people you love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what Bonow seems to be stating, the pro-life movement is filled with an <em>incredible<\/em> number of women who have had abortions &#8212; and regretted them. They lead pregnancy resource centers and pro-life organizations and reach out to women on abortion facility sidewalks&#8230; and on and on. Many of them\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/silentnomoreawareness.org\">speak the truth<\/a> about how they were pressured or coerced, how they were lied to by the abortion industry, and how &#8212; despite feeling relieved at first &#8212; they realized months, years, or even decades later, that their abortion decision affected every other part of their lives in some way. And not typically for the better.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/can-pro-life-feminist\/\">READ: <em>Can you be a pro-life feminist?<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bonow adds, &#8220;The anti-choice movement wants it to be terrifying to speak the truth, because we can\u2019t advocate for something we can\u2019t say out loud.&#8221; What &#8220;truth&#8221; is this she&#8217;s referring to, exactly? Surely not the actual facts: that abortion kills a very <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bHe8YGPGzj4\">real, developing human being<\/a>; that the abortion industry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/what-we-do\/investigations\/medical-misinformation\/\">thrives on deception and coercion<\/a> because aborting children is highly lucrative; that you cannot kill your own child <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/research-mother-preborn-interconnected\/\">and remain unaffected<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see what abortion actually looks like &#8212; to really see the truth, not wrapped in the rhetoric of &#8220;women&#8217;s rights&#8221; &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/herestheblood.com\">click here at your own risk<\/a>. Below is a less graphic video explanation of a typical abortion procedure done between 13 and 24 weeks of pregnancy (by 21 weeks, it is possible for these babies to survive outside the womb with medical intervention):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgw4X7Dw_3k\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s &#8216;O&#8217; Magazine isn&#8217;t giving women the whole truth about abortion. Instead, it&#8217;s giving a platform to a woman who is promoting killing as an empowering social good for women. 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CNS News reports that in the magazine&#8217;s July 2018 issue,\u00a0Amelia Bonow, founder of the #Shout Your Abortion movement, shares her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":187325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6,3473,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sick: Oprah Winfrey&#039;s magazine encourages women to celebrate abortions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sadly, Oprah Winfrey&#039;s &#039;O&#039; Magazine isn&#039;t giving women the whole truth about abortion. 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