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\"washington-dc-metro-subway\"<\/a>One of pro-aborts\u2019 most insufferable qualities is their tendency to write odes to their own heroism, play-acting as ragtag underdogs risking it all to protect the pure, immeasurable goodness of \u201cchoice\u201d against the awesome might of wild-eyed tyranny.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s bizarro-world reenactment of past moral crusades comes from Michelle Kinsey Bruns, a \u201cfeminist activist\u201d who specializes in \u201cfight[ing] clinic harassment and other barriers to\u201d having one\u2019s offspring bumped off. At Feministing, she recounts<\/a> how she bravely stood up to the most fearsome of adversaries: a train car full of high-school kids heading home from the March for Life (or, as she oh-so-cleverly puts it, the \u201cMarch for Uterine Conscription\u201d).<\/p>\n

You see, our hero knew all too well that her foes weren\u2019t \u201cas well-informed as some of them think,\u201d but were in fact \u201cna\u00efve\u201d and \u201cpuffed up on privilege,\u201d because she too came from the anti-intellectual, dissent-stifling doldrums of Catholic school (I have a hard time believing that Catholic education is quite so propagandistic with numbers like this<\/a>, but I digress).<\/p>\n

So, when she identified a crowd of (white, because apparently that\u2019s important for her to note) teens with Catholic school sweaters and pro-life signs waiting to depart from Washington Union Station, Michelle of Arc just had to take the opportunity to share with them the pro-choice insight they were so sorely lacking:<\/p>\n

\u201c1 in 3 women in this country has an abortion. Sixty-one percent of them are already mothers. They all do it citing the difficult circumstances of their lives, and the priority of the families they already have.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an abortion when I was eighteen. I had been an abused child; I had just gotten out of a place where I often went to school with two black eyes. And that abortion saved my life\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

My voice started to shake with adrenaline and nerves.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2014in the sense that I was able to take it back and become successful the way I am today. The rest of my family\u2019s lives are still very poor, and very tough, and I love them dearly but I wish that they had had more options for themselves.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n

\u201cI want you to think as you grow up and into adulthood about putting this passion that you have for this cause into making healthcare available for everybody; into making, for example, executions illegal if you are pro-life. Think about the inequities that force women to say say, \u2018I want this pregnancy but I cannot raise a child.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure enough, Bruns\u2019 words left the ignorant, sheltered little Catholics bewildered and speechless, just as she expec-<\/p>\n

Seconds later, the conductor announced the Alexandria stop. I walked back to the vestibule, picked up the bag I\u2019d left there, and stepped off the train.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hold on. The whole point<\/i> of this stunt was that these kids were simply operating on brainwashing and lacked the enlightening experiences of their liberal betters, yet the author never actually tests her theory? She leaves<\/i> before her targets\u2014who, mind you, are mere passengers headed home after a busy, tiring trip\u2014even have a chance to respond? We\u2019re supposed to take it on faith that they would have fit her stereotypes? (Yes, the train\u2019s imminent departure was beyond Bruns\u2019s control. But that only underscores the ridiculousness of using this particular setting for a meaningful example.)<\/p>\n

Had this not been a rhetorical hit-and-run, odds are Bruns would have been unpleasantly surprised at the teens\u2019 actual command of the subject. Maybe they would have shared the personal experiences of those among them or loved ones who faced their own unwanted pregnancies and found a better way. Maybe they would have enlightened her<\/a> about everything pro-lifers do to help such women. Maybe they would have discussed the agony and coercion<\/a> baked into that one-in-three statistic. Maybe they would have schooled her on the tacit aid she gives all<\/a> the harm<\/a> that Planned Parenthood inflicts<\/a> on women. Maybe some of them would\u2019ve even been up on the various flaws<\/a> in the Turnaway study Bruns\u2019s article later cites.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, they definitely would have called out the way Bruns\u2019s entire speech simply ignored the messy question of whom her abortion destroyed: the life she ended, the soul she assumed dominion over, the future she took away, the pain she may have inflicted (Bruns doesn\u2019t specify when in her pregnancy she aborted)\u2026in short, the son or daughter she\u2019ll never know, because she abandoned him or her.<\/p>\n

Even in their brief exchange, rest assured that the teens saw her \u201cjustifying my life\u201d spiel for the comforting lie it was, and however much they have yet to learn, they know the difference between justice and emotionalism. It would be nice if pro-aborts would stick to picking on opponents their own size, but thankfully, pro-life Davids are more than a match for Goliath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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