connecting*the*dots

Look, I’m pro-choice, yet I completely understand the opposition to abortion (the act). Everyone does. It’s safe to say that no woman has ever approached an abortion with a gleam in her eye.

This moral commonality — distinctly human — is what makes the debate between the pro-choice and anti-choice crowds so emotionally charged.

The question I pose to you is the following: If you are anti-choice, is the above discourse an example of the type of response that you want your Congresspersonto engage in?

If so, then where do our moral standards come into play? And if elected, how would Robinson’s tone affect his relationships with the rest of Congress and us — the constituents — across various topical issues?

(via Jay Ovittore)

Original coverage: Vernon Robinson: Not In My House

If a lab was burning down, and you had one chance to save a “life,” what choice would you make?

OR

Andrew Wilkow can’t answer it.

The messed up thing about this debate is that everyone agrees that an abortion is the termination of potential life, but the way the right-wing positions their battle is that they’re “pro-life” and the other side is “pro-death.” Wrong.

The movement is called “pro-choice” because that’s exactly what it is — a choice, made by a woman, regarding her own body.

Listen closely towards the second half of the call where Wilkow berates Mike Stark, the caller who asked the question:

[…]

Wilkow: You can’t storm in here and tell me what I’d do and then tell me what you know I would do and then tell me who that I am… I mean who I am. You don’t know me! You can’t tell me how I think! You can’t tell me how to feel! You can’t tell me what would do and not do, John, because you don’t know! You don’t know! Don’t tell me what I wouldn’t do, John, based on your preconceived notions of stereotypical conservatives.

Stark: Hey, listen. If you want your audience to doubt your sanity, there’s nothing I can do to stop that.

[…]

He won’t honestly answer the question, so instead, he launches a defensive attack. Typical.

I wonder what a woman must feel like when she listens to an anti-choice man whining “You can’t tell me…”

(via Crooks & Liars)