{"id":91483,"date":"2016-04-07T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=91483"},"modified":"2016-04-11T10:41:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T14:41:48","slug":"latest-pro-abortion-propaganda-comic-even-lamer-than-youd-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/latest-pro-abortion-propaganda-comic-even-lamer-than-youd-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest pro-abortion propaganda comic even lamer than you’d expect"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cecile Richards wants to \u201chumanize\u201d abortion<\/a>, and a new comic strip beginning to make the rounds online is only too happy to help. Artists Tillie Walden and Anna Sellheim have made a comic strip<\/a> about their \u201clovely experiences\u201d at Planned Parenthood. Before all the usual pro-abortion suspects start writing odes to this \u201cpowerful, thought-provoking\u201d masterpiece, let\u2019s take a look at whether it actually has anything meaningful to say.<\/p>\n

It begins with a girl (supposedly Sellheim) nervously telling her pro-abortion activist mother, \u201cI think I\u2019m pro-life\u201d because \u201cI just don\u2019t think I could ever get an abortion even if I get pregnant by accident.\u201d Fortunately, her mother is relieved with she clarifies that \u201cof course\u201d other women should still be able to abort their babies. \u201cI mean, I\u2019m not crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t the point of effective message art such as political cartoons to, y\u2019know, persuade? Usually it achieves this by cleverly illustrating how<\/em> a premise is right or wrong, or showing what<\/em> this or that bit of conventional wisdom fails to account for. But this is just dialogue restating their premise, accompanied by an insult to the contrary viewpoint it doesn\u2019t bother to confront. It\u2019s literally nothing more than one of a million interchangeable pro-abortion comment thread exchanges put in word balloons above some characters.<\/p>\n

For future reference, pro-abortion readers, this is why you have so much trouble<\/a> persuading people to agree with you<\/a>: you prefer to endlessly high-five each other over what you already think is obvious instead of bothering with real conversations with people outside of your echo chamber.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward, and the now-adult daughter goes to Planned Parenthood to get a breast exam, and wouldn\u2019t you know it? It\u2019s just the nicest, friendliest place you can imagine! They play great music, they \u201caren\u2019t judgmental!\u201d (Heaven forbid!)<\/p>\n

What she doesn\u2019t mention is how the \u201cbreast exam\u201d she was so grateful to Planned Parenthood for was no different than the self-exams<\/a> anyone can do at home for free. Actual mammograms? Planned Parenthood admits it doesn’t do those<\/a>, despite they and their supporters dishonestly claiming otherwise in the past.<\/p>\n

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The comic goes on to recount Walden\u2019s childhood in\u2014where else?\u2014Texas, \u201csurrounded by misinformed talk of what Planned Parenthood was.\u201d The example? A middle-school teacher telling a class full of kids that \u201cabortions are VACUUMS that kill babies, and PLANNED PARENTHOOD is where they die.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a little extra oomph, there\u2019s also a panel of the teacher sporting blank pupil-less zombie eyes saying \u201cBABIES.\u201d No sentence, no thought, just \u201cBABIES.\u201d Because that\u2019s totally a realistic thing pro-lifers do all the time, right? Mindlessly chant \u201cbaby\u201d like it\u2019s a magic word, and we have no actual arguments that we ever even try?<\/p>\n

The comic refutes this \u201cmisinformation\u201d by pointing out that vacuums aren\u2019t used in aborti\u2014wait, no, it can\u2019t do that, because abortion advocates\u00a0themselves admit<\/a> that nearly three-quarters of first-trimester abortions are done with vacuums. Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino explains a first trimester abortion:<\/p>\n