{"id":24357,"date":"2012-12-17T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=24357"},"modified":"2012-12-17T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T18:03:54","slug":"nancy-keenan-and-naral-tout-dubious-pregnancy-rights-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nancy-keenan-and-naral-tout-dubious-pregnancy-rights-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Keenan and NARAL tout dubious pregnancy rights claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Today,\u00a0NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan sent an e-mail stating that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In fact, Personhood USA, an extreme group that wants to give full legal rights to a pregnancy, claims to have begun the largest expansion in its history.<\/p>\n<p>First, Personhood USA has never advocated for a pregnancy to have legal rights. Personhood USA advocates that all biologically living human beings should have the right to life starting from their point of formation at conception.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24358\" style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/news\/nancy-keenan-and-naral-tout-dubious-pregnancy-rights-claims\/12-17-2012-naral-email\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24358\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24358\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24358  \" alt=\"12-17-2012 naral email\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/12-17-2012-naral-email-137x300.jpg\" width=\"137\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/12-17-2012-naral-email-137x300.jpg 137w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/12-17-2012-naral-email-469x1024.jpg 469w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/12-17-2012-naral-email.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click \u00a0image above to view full NARAL email.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Second, &#8220;pregnancy&#8221; isn&#8217;t even a defined tangle object or being, but rather the status or state of carrying offspring. Humans don&#8217;t give birth to pregnancies. They give birth to humans, like dogs give birth to dogs or cats give birth to cats. Maybe NARAL should freshen up on some biology lessons as well as review\u00a0Personhood USA&#8217;s position more carefully before misrepresenting it.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s funny that NARAL would call the 100% peaceful and law-abiding Personhood USA &#8220;extreme.&#8221; What standard for &#8220;extreme&#8221; is NARAL using? Apparently, one is &#8220;extreme&#8221; for simply supporting the right to life for all humans. If peacefully having a different opinion makes one extreme, then how does NARAL dodge its own label? After all,\u00a0NARAL gave its &#8220;Hall of Fame&#8221; designation to a late-term abortionist who perform third trimester terminations opposed by an overwhelming number among the public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ccb36d22da576671ae77-0c9cfeae658d496c507e798db67b1ef3.r55.cf2.rackcdn.com\/2012\/03\/human-fetus.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12853\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12853 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"human-fetus\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/human-fetus-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/human-fetus-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/human-fetus.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The NARAL e-mail adds that pro-life groups &#8220;like Personhood USA have the resources, the numbers, and the momentum to move this country backwards. And their plan is crystal clear&#8211;to dismantle our right to choose state by state.&#8221; That should be an encouragement to all in the pro-life movement &#8211; NARAL considers you a force to be reckoned with. Also of note, NARAL doesn&#8217;t use the word &#8220;abortion&#8221; even once in its e-mail. The people at NARAL have learned that messy things like terminating human life are best left to euphemisms, because while they like being able to abort, they still get squeamish\u00a0talking directly about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pro-abortion outlets like NARAL who absurdly reduce unique human beings to abstractions like &#8220;the pregnancy.&#8221; Not Personhood USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":12853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nancy Keenan and NARAL tout dubious pregnancy rights claims - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nancy-keenan-and-naral-tout-dubious-pregnancy-rights-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nancy Keenan and NARAL tout dubious pregnancy rights claims - 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