December 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A writer at a popular abortion blog has complained that pro-life “manipulation” has infiltrated “liberal-minded folks” after learning that a friend didn’t want prenatal tests to see if her child should be aborted over abnormalities.
Tara of the Abortion Gang blog wrote Tuesday of her exasperation to hear that the partner of her female friend – who was once Tara’s lesbian lover, and current “bestie” – was pregnant, but had forgone an amniocentesis. The friend explained that, no matter the defect, they had decided to “just roll with whatever the universe threw at them.”
That choice left Tara “gobsmacked,” leading her to enter a briefly heated conversation with her friend about how she had been “psychologically duped” by pro-life rhetoric to believe in the child in the womb.
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“I’ve remained troubled by a larger concern that’s been kicking around in my head since that conversation – the billboard factor: the thought that years of unrelenting exposure to the deliberate misdirection, manipulation and half-truths of those ubiquitous cherub-faced please-mommy-don’t-get-an-abortion billboards could have seeped quietly into the psyches of rational-minded, reality-based people,” she wrote.
“My creeping suspicion is that under the barrage of relentless advertising over the years, even the most hippie liberal folks must be feeling hard-pressed to think of embryos/fetuses as anything less than fully-formed, thinking, talking, swimming, bouncing, giggling people.”
“If the most hyperbolic, highly- mock-able anti-choice propaganda is working on us liberal-minded folks,” she concluded, “we’re in more trouble than I thought.”
Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood manager who became pro-life after watching an ultrasound-guided abortion, called Tara’s reaction “a perfect example of the fear pro-choicers have of the truth.”
In fact, she said, pro-life advocates speak to the true needs of expectant mothers. “No one wants to have an abortion. No one wants to make that ‘choice,’” said Johnson. “Women in crisis are looking for a reason to parent their child…and they find it in the pro-life community…they find it through truth, logic and reason.”