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I am supposed to researching for biology right now but I can't concentrate because I am sooo angry and frustrated. In the midst of my procrastinating I happened across a link to the blog I Am Emily X. On it various planned parenthood workers share their story. Apparently, there is a 40 Days for Life campaign going on right now so many planned parenthood clinics have protesters outside of their clinics. I'm not really sure how I feel about abortion morally but I do think that it should be legal or at least a state issue. In a New York Times article it was reported that some commission found that countries where abortion was illegal didn't have any fewer abortions, they just had an increase in deaths.
Aside from all of the moral and political issues associated with abortion, the tactics that the protesters use are just wrong. Even if I agreed 100% that abortion is immoral and should be illegal I would still think that what the protesters are doing is horrible. Taking pictures of license plates? Calling the workers sluts? Vandalism? I can't stand it that people associate Christianity with things like this.
Also, Planned Parenthood provides lots of services other than abortion. They even provide services aside birth control such as pap smears which could save a woman's life. Women who are going to Planned Parenthood should not have to walk past protesters or feel attacked for their decision to go to the clinic. That decision could save their life.
On the 40 Days for Life website they list previous campaigns and all of the "successes" that they had. How did they determine that they had prevented an abortion? And, what happened several months later when the woman had a baby? If a woman has made a decision to have an abortion then there is probably a reason. A reason that will most likely affect the baby's quality of life. So what happens then?
Aside from all of the moral and political issues associated with abortion, the tactics that the protesters use are just wrong. Even if I agreed 100% that abortion is immoral and should be illegal I would still think that what the protesters are doing is horrible. Taking pictures of license plates? Calling the workers sluts? Vandalism? I can't stand it that people associate Christianity with things like this.
Also, Planned Parenthood provides lots of services other than abortion. They even provide services aside birth control such as pap smears which could save a woman's life. Women who are going to Planned Parenthood should not have to walk past protesters or feel attacked for their decision to go to the clinic. That decision could save their life.
On the 40 Days for Life website they list previous campaigns and all of the "successes" that they had. How did they determine that they had prevented an abortion? And, what happened several months later when the woman had a baby? If a woman has made a decision to have an abortion then there is probably a reason. A reason that will most likely affect the baby's quality of life. So what happens then?