Pro-Choice On Demand
latest update in the quest for free, easy, and available abortion on demand at all times for all people for any reason:
two parents are charged with kidnapping and other assorted offenses after kidnapping their 19 year-old daughter in an attempt to force her to have an abortion against her will. the girl- i guess actually woman (unlike the teenage or adolescent "women" with whom the abortion lobby is so obsessed ...)- was actually taken by force and had to escape at a rest stop and call police. it's not clear where her parents planned to take her, since one would hope that there are not too many doctors out there who would perform a medical procedure on a competent adult without her consent (actually completely against her will...). when the parents' car was searched, police found duct tape, cords, and other kidnapping paraphenalia.
i'm wondering how people who are clearly so pro-abortion could actually have had a child of their own...
i'm wondering where the choice is in this scenario, and why no abortion rights activists have come out and said what a clear bastardization of the "right to choose" this whole episode is.
i'm curious about whether or not the doctor who was going to perform this procedure has been tracked down and charged with criminal conspiracy.
but most of all, i am wondering what kind of "parents" would be so misguided about abortion and family and everything else under the sun that they could possibly convince themselves that they should murder their own grandchild in the interest of some higher goal.
and, as a corallary, what in the world could that higher goal have been?
two parents are charged with kidnapping and other assorted offenses after kidnapping their 19 year-old daughter in an attempt to force her to have an abortion against her will. the girl- i guess actually woman (unlike the teenage or adolescent "women" with whom the abortion lobby is so obsessed ...)- was actually taken by force and had to escape at a rest stop and call police. it's not clear where her parents planned to take her, since one would hope that there are not too many doctors out there who would perform a medical procedure on a competent adult without her consent (actually completely against her will...). when the parents' car was searched, police found duct tape, cords, and other kidnapping paraphenalia.
i'm wondering how people who are clearly so pro-abortion could actually have had a child of their own...
i'm wondering where the choice is in this scenario, and why no abortion rights activists have come out and said what a clear bastardization of the "right to choose" this whole episode is.
i'm curious about whether or not the doctor who was going to perform this procedure has been tracked down and charged with criminal conspiracy.
but most of all, i am wondering what kind of "parents" would be so misguided about abortion and family and everything else under the sun that they could possibly convince themselves that they should murder their own grandchild in the interest of some higher goal.
and, as a corallary, what in the world could that higher goal have been?
posted by BlogBlond @ 7:23 AM
7 Comments:
At Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:30:00 PM,
Sarah said…
I think these particular people are just sick and that this is not at all representative of the "pro-choice" community-at-large.
At Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:51:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
I was just going to say what anysara did, in no way should this situation be used in the debate between pro choice and anti abortion. This is simply the case of two nut job parents.
At Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:54:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
I just found this on another blog
Two Crazy People In Maine Will Justify Overturning Roe
Expect this story to be the cause du jour of rightwing blogs. Rightwing blogs will ignore the fact that tying someone up with duct tape and transporting them against their will is illegal even if the hostage is being taken to an event as nice as church services.
At Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:58:00 PM,
BlogBlond said…
if mainstream muslims are being taken to task for not condemning acts of vile terror (which they most certainly should), then most certainly those who speak for the proponents of legal accessible abortion should distance themselves from this act and take a position. it is their abject fear of "slippery slopes" that will keep them from disallowing full term (partial birth) abortions and not condemning kidnapping to avail someone of the most holy "right" to abortion.
that's all i'm sayin'...
At Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:03:00 PM,
Sarah said…
Sure they should distance themselves - I haven't seen any commentary on it in the media, probably because a family of nutcases is not exactly newsworthy. I bet that if you sent this article to NARAL and they deighned to answer it, they would condemn it. It just isn't big enough to be on everyone's radar.
At Wednesday, September 20, 2006 12:09:00 PM,
Sarah said…
I can think of nothing better than if Roe v. Wade were overturned. It would be put to state legislatures or perhaps even to a referendum in some states. Abortion would be legal where people feel it is a right and illegal where people feel it's murder. Some women who get pregnant would have to travel to a state where abortion is legal if they felt they needed to. Maybe some would even opt for adoption rather than abortion.
I personally see abortion as the height of selfishness. If people are going to live a certain lifestyle, they deserve the consequences. If I overdraw my bank account, I don't get to go to the bank and say "oops, can you please just top it back up?"
At Saturday, October 14, 2006 3:39:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Do you really believe that only people who live a 'certain lifestyle' are the ones who get abortions? If you do, get your head out of the sand! If you think that the decision of having an abortion is an easy one then you have never been there before! I'll admit that abortions are overused and people who live a 'certain lifestyle' should reap what they sow, but who really suffers then, the kids.
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