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Sure was NGF, do you read Cracked.com too?

http://www.cracked.com/article_19053_6-bel…

Regardless of their past, the Planned Parenthood of today is pretty freaking awesome.

Oh, and OP, keep in mind that the extreme right-wing Republican youth have been brainwashed from infancy by their extreme right-wing republican parents (who have been brainwashed by their extreme right-wing Republican parents and so on) and haven’t put much thought into their positions on the subject beyond “God says so”. No amount of logical debate and rational discussion is going to change their warped little minds. Trust me I know, because I was one of them.

Know that churches actually specifically recruit young parishioners to join their various anti-choice organizations. They’re smart like that. See they know the pews are thinning, so if they have an arsenal of young people who all believe furiously that abortion and birth control usage are punishable by hellfire, they can at least look forward to large clutches of unexpected babies fresh for baptism – because no amount of hellfire is going to get those horny “abstaining” teens to keep their pants on.

It would be great if there was anything resembling critical thinking and actual debate in local youth parish meetings. I have attended “pro-life” meetings in my hometown when I was a teenager and they are far from hubs of intellectual conversation and spirited debate. Lets see, there were two stacks of 8.5×10″ glossy photographs of fetuses. A “happy” pile and a “sad” pile. The happy pile was full of pictures of fetuses in varying stages of development in the womb, the host would lovingly list of all the things the baby already had like fingernails and toes etc. Everyone would “awwww” at each picture. Then we were shown the sad pile, a bunch of pictures of the “aftermath” of an abortion, basically decapitated and torn up fetus out of the womb, or a bloody mangled baby (not surprisingly I never got into the ‘dead baby’ joke fad after seeing that). Many of these pictures I can still find on Google images and the ones I could trace were not taken in countries where women have access to early legal abortion, most were results of abortions performed illegally by people who weren’t doctors. The funny thing is, that these groups are against ALL abortion, not just late term abortion, but all of the pictures shown were of late term. We were given the false impression that most abortions in Canada were just like the sad pile of pictures. They told us that after a girl has an abortion she becomes suicidal, infertile, depressed, etc. We were convinced that stopping women from having abortions would not only save the baby from being murdered (because doctors that perform abortions are murderers, by the way) but we were saving the mother all the grief listed above AND saving her soul from eternal damnation in hell. None of us teenagers there had ever really thought about whether abortion was right or wrong before this, never been exposed to the other side of things, the only time we got to speak was at the end of the meeting when we had to say a group prayer for all the unborn babies in the history of the world.

There was not a realistic portrayal of abortion in Canada, outright lies were told about women being depressed etc. afterward, followup statistics have shown no significant decrease in emotional well-being. No mention about how if abortion is criminalized women will just go some place where it is legal and do it anyway. And those that can’t travel will start having self induced abortions or abortions in unsafe conditions by unqualified people (coat-hangers, need I say more?). In cases where the abortion attempt is unsuccessful, because that tends to happen when people don’t know what the fuck they’re doing, the fetus may end up being horribly damaged from the attempt and born with various deformities or injuries, OR the mother and fetus will both die.

And these people call themselves “pro-life”