Pro-Lifer Suggests Abortion To Blame For Robin Williams' Depression

[Capt. Obvious]

The pro-life site Life News on Tuesday published a piece suggesting that an abortion in actor Robin Williams' past may have contributed to the depression he struggled with throughout his life.

The story, titled "Robin Williams: Abortion of His Unborn Child May Have Added to Struggle With Depression," surfaced part of a biography of Williams that mentions that his girlfriend had an abortion in the 1970s.

"Many are aware that Williams struggled for years with serious addiction issues. However a lesser known fact is that one of those demons was an abortion that took place in the 1970’s," Life News' Kevin Burke wrote.

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The writer analyzed Williams' battle with addiction and discussion of depression, looking for signs that it was in some way linked to the abortion.

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Burke then reimagined the quote to be about abortion and wrote that "Williams may have been making a thinly veiled reference to what society tells us does not exist…his post abortion trauma and complicated grief."

TPM

These fucking scumbags. Is there nothing they won't try to incorporate into efforts to turn women into breeding animals in the name of voodoo.

[easychoice]

1. Talk about makin shit up!!!!!

Someone should pound a cork in that pie hole.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. lol. yeah

[yuiyoshida]

15. And shame on them that they should USE HIS DEATH

to advance their stupid cause. They are lower than whale excrement!!

[Snotcicles]

39. There is no limit to the depths they will stoop. nt

[easychoice]

41. Yeah I pretty much popped a cork when I saw that...

Despicable,just despicable...

[davidpdx]

2. The article has been removed now

Interesting.......

[Capt. Obvious]

3. Interesting indeed

They probably got hate trolled for that

[DonViejo]

4. No it hasn't been removed...

it's right here:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pro-life-site-robin-williams-abortion

[PeaceNikki]

8. The original shit article from "LifeNews" has been removed. The one TPM is discussing.

[DonViejo]

10. Ah, okay. Sorry, I misunderstood which article was being referred to. eom

[Orrex]

5. Finally a voice of reason

[Ron Obvious]

6. What a load of nonsense!

We all know it was because of gay marriage.

[sarge43]

11. WAT!

It was because an African American was elected POTUS ... or maybe Benghazi.

[mnhtnbb]

7. Self-righteous scumbags indeed.

They will use any opportunity to promote their judgmental view of
how women should live their lives according to their patriarchal
value system.

[joeybee12]

9. 40 years later it hits him, huh?

Scum and stupid to boot. These people need to go away.

[hifiguy]

18. in a fleet of rubber trucks.

[joeybee12]

19. And it was so devstating, even though he didn't have the abortion himself...

What a idiot this blogger is, no deranged, there is no logical thought process in this.

[catrose]

13. It couldn't possibly be because he was bipolar, right?

I need to ask them about my right-wing bipolar cousin--she who never had an abortion, saw a Christian counselor in addition to her psychiatrist, attended and volunteered at church multiple times per week. I wonder why she stepped in front of a train when she was about Robin Williams' age. Tell me what sins she (and her father, multiple aunts, and ancestors) committed.

[7962]

22. I never had much experience with bi-polar until my last girlfriend.

She told me she had it and tried to explain it so i could understand. She took medication, but decided one day to "adjust" her dosage downward. She thought she didnt need that much anymore. She never told me that she had done it either. Things got odd with us soon after, and she ended up marrying her first cousin. Really.
She told me about the medication situation after we broke up, but I just couldnt trust her anymore. She was a very smart woman and knew better than to play around with her dosages without a doctors OK.
I hope I never have to experience it with my own body.

[catrose]

24. Bipolar is an evil thing

My cousin held a PhD, definitely smart enough to do, I don't know, anything...bipolar don't care.

I read that Mr. Williams said that he hadn't been diagnosed as bipolar, but there are many other awful mind malfunctions.

With a family full of bipolar folks, I'd say you're better off. Even if you could trust her, the medical profession does not know all about the problem.

[peace13]

14. I thought it was because the government was going to take his guns away!

Seriously, these people are sick *ucks!!!! They will stop at nothing to make people feel bad.

The 'Heartbeat' people noticed my sister being emotional at church after a Mother's Day anti abortion blow out sermon. This woman wanted to visit my sister who lived in a special care unit, could barely speak, and was losing control of her body one movement at a time. When the woman called for permission to go in and speak with my sister I said that I didn't think that it would be a good idea. This woman spit over the phone, ' Did you know your sister had an abortion?' I wanted to tell this woman that it was a good *amn thing I wasn't a closed minded, meddling hypocritical Christian like she was or the surprise of this revelation may cause me to refuse to continue to be my 'evil' sister's primary caregiver because of her sin.

I was kind and told the woman that it would not be a good idea. I followed that up with a call to her manager and spoke frankly about the damage this woman could have done to my sister's life. I can only hope that She took care of the ignorant one!

[BobbyBoring]

16. These people are so fucked up

This is nothing I'm proud of, but I have been the donor in perhaps 5 terminated pregnancies. Not once in my darkest of dark hours (of which there have been many) did the fleetingest thought of them enter my mind.

[hifiguy]

17. This borders on science fiction.

But then, what reichwing religulous fucknuttery does not?

[Fearless]

20. The stupid thing is it could be true.

Wait hear me out. ..

It "could" be true. Of course it isn't.

But if it was it isn't an argument against abortion, but for greater social services funding.

Plot foiled.

[ladyVet]

25. And even if it were true...

It's none of our business. It's not a suitable subject for discussions that are vitally needed to bring help to people who suffer every day with mental illness.

I don't know what he felt about the situation around the abortion (if it's even true that it happened), but it was something between him, the woman involved, and any higher power Williams may have believed in. It's not for any of us to say if it contributed to his death.

And I agree about the "demons" part in the last post. No such thing as demons. Stupid fundy freaks.

[blkmusclmachine]

21. I'd say "Gross," but this is SOP for the GOP

[blue neen]

23. First of all, I'm sick to death of clinical depression and addiction being referred to as "demons".

They're not frickin' "demons". They are diseases. Illnesses of a body part--the brain.

If a diabetic has a binge on sugar and fat and his/her blood sugar sky rockets, is that a "demon"?

If a hypercholesterolemic decides to eat eggs and bacon everyday, is that referred to as a "demon"?

If an asthmatic decides to start smoking cigarettes, is that a "demon"?

No, no, and no. The above examples would be considered bad decisions....but the only illnesses that still gets referred to in satanic terms are brain disorders.

Okay. Off my soapbox now.

[gratuitous]

26. New rule

If you weren't a close, personal, intimate friend of someone who died by their own hand, you don't get to opine on what may have driven the person to suicide. Of course, if you are a close, personal, intimate friend of a suicide, you probably don't want to blather a lot of baseless speculation to the general public.

Side note to Kevin Burke: Fuck you. No, seriously: Fuck. You.

[niyad]

29. seems like a reasonable rule. but then, reason is not exactly in evidence with those hate-mongering

cretins.

I HAVE had friends who committed suicide, and, although I have some knowledge of what they were experiencing, there is no way I would ever be arrogant enough to think I knew, or will EVER know, exactly what they were going through.

[cstanleytech]

27. Wow they really "can" sink to new lows. nt

[Lyra Heartstrings]

28. Not sure if it's been posted elsewhere, but Limbaugh had a say on William's death as well.

I almost forgot that he even existed until I saw this.

[niyad]

30. it has been posted, and discussed here. but there may be some who missed hearing that

bloviating, soulless POS. I keep hoping his bile and venom will choke him to death--on air, in the middle of one of his hate-filled riffs.

[love_katz]

33. Seconded!

[supercats]

31. FUCK YOU PRO LIFER!!!

Suck my dick you piece of shit. Here's an idea for you....why don't you raise all the unwanted babies that teenagers end up having!!! Don't you dare bring Robin Williams into your sick fucked up mind!!!

[GoCubsGo]

32. I think what Lewis Black said to Limbaugh applies to this asshole, as well.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025380833

[littlemissmartypants]

34. No Amount of

Magical Thinking by ANTI-CHOICERS can bring him back.

ROBIN RIP.




Love, Peace and the Righteous Fight.
~ Lmsp

[Bartlet]

35. Why are consrvatives

always such awful shiteating scumbags?

[shenmue]

36. Sigh

The ignorance, yipes.

[catbyte]

37. Christ on a cracker.

Yeah, I'm sure that played a major role in it.

[treestar]

38. They don't even know what his attitude was towards it

Let alone it being back in the 70s.

People on this issue on that side can be so tunnel visioned about it.

[marble falls]

40. A pro-lifer ghoul. Niiiiiiiiice.