Anti-Choice Handbook.

[naamah_darling]

Amanda Marcotte writes a piece for RH Reality Check about the training manual she obtained from "pro-life" group Justice For All. Link here.

The link to the actual parts of the manual she scanned is here. It is one of the most disturbing things I've ever read in my life. I strongly, strongly recommend you read as much of it as you can stand to

Comments

[lilah_kelly]

I don't get how pro-lifers and/or anyone who believes the bullshit in that pamphlet can honestly say that teaching abstinence works. The school I went to didn't teach any sort of sex ed class, and there were (and still are) a high number of teen pregnancies in our town, all junior high and high school aged kids. Christ, it was reported back in January that Mississippi (where I live) had the highest rate of teen pregnancies in the nation. Gee, how's that "promote abstinence!" thing work'n out for ya? *eye roll*

As for all the other stuff, I just can't even wrap my head around it right now. Ugh. Just...UGH.

Oh, this reply to a pro-lifer's comment in Ms. Marcotte's article made me want to hug someone:

dr. tiller's assassination and the subsequent responses of anti-abortionists has only reinforced to me that anti-abortionists only care for fetuses, zygotes, and embryos. and i really do think it's because caring for some abstract thing based solely on personal religious beliefs is lazy and easy. where's the fight for homeless children? Where is the outrage for kids in Appalachia who go to bed hungry? where is the outcry for children who are victims of domestic violence? oh, i guess that would take true conviction and actual action and possible sacrifice.

[5251962]

That's what I think, too. The small town where I grew up, I was one of five from my graduating class that didn't have at least one baby before either graduating or dropping out. We had nothing in the way of sex ed- we had a teacher who was also the girls' basketball coach, and she tried to broach the subject of condom use only to get shut down. Most who support her think the only reason she didn't get fired was because the team won so much. The classes after mine, same sort of thing. I helped as a breastfeeding mentor in our local WIC office when I lived in another small town shortly after the birth of my youngest, and from what I could see?
Those statistics have not changed much, if anything, they got worse.
The horrid part was how uneducated some of these girls I was teaching were- not just about breastfeeding, but some of what they'd say about birth control just boggled my mind.