{"id":49536,"date":"2014-05-13T14:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=49536"},"modified":"2014-07-23T20:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T00:15:16","slug":"if-you-thought-emily-letts-video-was-sick-just-wait-till-you-read-her-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/if-you-thought-emily-letts-video-was-sick-just-wait-till-you-read-her-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"If you thought Emily Letts’s video was sick, just wait ’till you read her fans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"EmilyEverything about Emily Letts’s abortion destigmatization video<\/a> is incredibly creepy, but by far the creepiest aspects are this quote:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t feel sad. I feel in awe of the fact that I\u00a0can\u00a0make a baby, that I can make a life.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this quote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It will always be a special memory for me. I still have my sonogram, and if my apartment were to catch fire, it would be the first thing I\u2019d grab.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, for readers who didn\u2019t hang up their analytical skills by the door, these sentiments raise some unavoidable and extremely disturbing implications.<\/p>\n

Most of Letts\u2019s video and Cosmopolitan<\/em> column gives off a distinctly narcissistic vibe\u2014all about \u201cI\u201d and \u201cme,\u201d with the baby being aborted treated like a total non-entity owed nothing, per feminazi doctrine. She \u201cknew\u201d that aborting her son or daughter \u201cwas right,\u201d you see, \u201cbecause it was right for me.\u201d Case closed, to the point where she can reference an angry comment that \u201cyou killed your baby\u201d and her only reaction is to whine that the commenter wasn\u2019t more interested in \u201cwhat I\u2019m about.\u201d No need to actually refute<\/em> the claim that she killed her baby; the mere act of noticing that she did so is intrinsically \u201chateful.\u201d Whatever guilt one might feel from offing their offspring is merely a byproduct of \u201csociety.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet, in the above quotes, Letts herself is going out of her way to draw attention to the victim of her abortion, going so far as to express how much she cherishes a visual depiction of her son or daughter, the creation of whom fills her with \u201cawe.\u201d Personally, this massive contradiction reminds me of the way some serial killers collect mementos of their victims, but evidently none of Cosmo\u2019s<\/em> editors noticed.<\/p>\n

So in short, she said more than enough to freak out the average person. But, as the following round-up of pro-abortion reactions to Letts\u2019s stunt shows, you should never expect you\u2019ve hit rock-bottom when dealing with pro-aborts\u2014there\u2019s always something even lower.<\/p>\n

First, ThinkProgress\u2019s Tara Culp-Ressler hails<\/a> the video as a necessary counterweight to Hollywood\u2019s supposed tendency \u201cto portray [abortion] extremely negatively,” citing the absurd ANRISH study I dissected<\/a> back in March, and claims her story \u201chelps demonstrate the fact that abortion isn’t a barbaric procedure.\u201d Um, no it doesn’t. Letts\u2019s video doesn’t actually show<\/em> the abortion. It shows her face while her son or daughter is being killed just off-screen.<\/p>\n

Second, Abortion Care Network director Charlotte Taft writes<\/a> on RH Reality Check that \u201cthere is little trust or respect for women in our society,\u201d as evidenced by Dr. Drew asking Letts, \u201cdid you get pregnant in order to do this video?\u201d At worst, this would be a sign of disrespect for Letts personally, not the general category of women\u2014but hey, when your job is riding on a narrative of perpetual female persecution, sometimes you’ve gotta get\u2026creative<\/em>\u2026with the truth.<\/p>\n

Taft spends most of the piece on infighting among \u201cpro-choicers,\u201d but while it\u2019s always hilarious when they lose the plot and turn on each other, what\u2019s notable for our purposes is that she lazily dismisses pro-life criticism of Letts\u2014i.e., the actual substantive areas of contention<\/em>\u2014by sneering, \u201cI am not giving any of my energy to the people who think she \u2018murdered her baby.\u2019\u201d Abortion\u2019s not murder because I say so, and scare quotes are all the evidence I need<\/em>. Real confidence in the merits of your position there!<\/p>\n

Next, in a softball Huffington Post <\/em>interview<\/a> featuring her and Letts, Taft said:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just women\u2019s right to have a safe abortion; it\u2019s our responsibility to make loving and good decisions about whether to bring life into the world through our bodies. This is a huge decision, and sometimes that\u2019s what\u2019s trivialized by acting as though women who chose abortion are irresponsible. In fact, women who are deciding whether or not it is right for them to bring life into the world are the most responsible people, and we should be thanking them for caring so much about life that they take it seriously. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s hard to see how rational dialogue could be possible with someone who spins this perversely. News flash: once somebody is pregnant, she already has<\/em> brought life into the world. Her child is already here. Pretending otherwise just because of the way an early embryo looks or because he or she is hidden inside mom\u2019s body does nothing to make the idea of abortion as mercy killing<\/a> any more justifiable than putting a three-year-old out of her misery because her parents \u201ccar[e] so much about life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Slate\u2019s<\/em> Katy Waldman at least acknowledges<\/a> some mixed messaging:<\/p>\n

Terminating an unwanted pregnancy can obviously produce exquisite relief and solve real problems. But does it count as a romantic expression of self-actualization? That seems like a harder sell [\u2026abortion] is incredibly safe and often very smart. It does not have to be sad, though it can be, and it should not be shameful. But joyous? Beautiful? Fulfilling? Are we ready for a brand of feminism that is not just pro-choice but pro-abortion?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So close to the rarest of all creatures, the self-reflective pro-abort\u2026and yet, Waldman squanders this flagrant act of objectivity by turning around and concluding that the apparent contradictions are all pro-lifers\u2019 fault:<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t shake this film free from the context of guilt and misinformation that still surrounds abortion. Media myths, especially conservative ones, turn the procedure into something bloody and traumatic, while pop culture tells us in\u00a0hundreds of TV storylines<\/a>\u00a0that women who obtain abortions\u00a0often die or get murdered<\/a>. So while it maybe feels strange to watch and read about a woman so spiritually energized by the end of her pregnancy, her counter-narrative is the direct result of a world overflowing with false arguments against abortion.\u00a0The reason we don\u2019t create rosy, feel-good films about appendectomies is that no one contests the right to remove an inflamed appendix.<\/em><\/p>\n

Letts, it seems, knows this. \u201cSociety breeds this guilt,\u201d she writes. \u201cWe inhale it from all directions. Even women who come to the clinic completely solid in their decision to have an abortion say they feel guilty for not feeling guilty.\u201d Her video, though not quite an advertisement for abortion, explicitly sets out to diffuse some of the pain and confusion that clouds the issue. And because the anti-choice myths are strong, the resistance fierce, the corrective must be too.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Never mind, of course, that abortion is murder even when the mother is convinced it isn’t (after all, as liberal secularist icon Neil deGrase Tyson is fond of saying<\/a>, \u201cthe good thing about science is that it\u2019s true whether or not you believe in it\u201d); that more women find abortion traumatic<\/a> than Letts and Waldman would have you believe, or that \u201cno one contests the right to remove an inflamed appendix\u201d because removing an inflamed appendix doesn’t kill anyone. (And seriously, what is it about that stupid TV study that captivates these people so?)<\/p>\n

Disgusting though the Emily Letts spectacle may be, the fact that she could say and (possibly<\/a>) do such things isn’t the scary part. Every generation of every society has had, and will continue to have, warped individuals who see no problem killing others for their own benefit. The scary part is when such people find members of so-called polite society to hang on their every word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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