National Review: Women who don't support Palin are just upset about their abortions

[BurtWorm]

From Feministing:

http://www.feministing.com/archives/011876.html

Now this is rich. Kevin Burke, a proponent of the invented "post abortion syndrome," writes that the criticism of Sarah Palin "may have a relationship to the collective grief, shame, and guilt from personal involvement in the abortion of an unborn child." Here I thought voters made decisions based on the issues that matter to them - little did I know that women across the country who don't support Palin are simply depressed about all of those abortions we've been having!

Burke gets even classier when he brings Palin's pregnant teen daughter into the mix:

If Bristol Palin had quietly aborted, Sarah Palin would have been spared the politically untimely focus on this very personal family issue. The problem would have quietly gone away. But Bristol, like countless post abortive women, would have paid a high price to protect her mother from the political heat that her pregnancy brings to the campaign. We know from our work with thousands of women who feel pressured to abort for various reasons that she would surely suffer many of the common post-abortion symptoms; depression, promiscuity, drug and alcohol abuse, sleep disorders, and relational problems. But she would have suffered in silence; no one would know her secret. No one would acknowledge that she has reason to grieve or have symptoms after abortion. Sarah Palin would have lost not only her precious grandchild...she likely would have lost her daughter Bristol to the silent ravages of post abortion suffering.

Wow, given that one in three American women will have an abortion in her lifetime - there must be millions of tired, addicted, slutty, depressed, single women running around voting Democrat!

Seriously, conservatives need to get their heads out of their asses - and out of our uteruses. (Sorry, not the best visual.)

[progressivebydesign]

1. this is the stupidest fucking shit I've seen in a long time.

So what's his excuse for MEN that don't support her? Or women who have never even been pregnant?

[Quantess]

2. I'll go one further.

They need to get their faces out of my crotch and mind their own ******* business!

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. God aborted my first two babies, and I was indeed very depressed over it. Does that mean that it is

God's fault that I am voting Democratic? :crazy: :silly:

[brendan120678]

4. One in three American women?

Is it seriously that high?
I'm just curious - that seems like an awfully high percentage.
Thirty three percent of American women will have an abortion?
Or is that just a mathematical figure (i.e: divide number of women in America by number of abortions performed) - not counting that some women will have multiple abortions?

[Tanuki]

9. Some statistics from the Guttmacher Institute:

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

The figures cited by the poster are accurate.

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. That still does not address Brendan's question.

I don't believe the assertion that "one in three" is valid. Take a group of 10 women. There are five abortions between them. That doesn't mean that 1 in 2 got abortions, because there could be multiple abortions for any of them. Statistically it's one in two, but it could be five between three of them, so it's really 3 in 10.

I think the anti-choice people push the 1 in 3 meme because it is an astounding number and it is easier to visualize than 1.2 million/year or whatever.

[ieoeja]

20. Actually I believe that is pushed by the pro-Choice side.

People are less inclined to talk badly about someone in their presence. If 1 in 3 women have abortions, then trashing abortion would often mean you are trashing one of the people present.

And, no, I don't buy this stat either. Not without some backing which all seems to come from a single source which I can not find on the intertubes. I find tons of material referencing it, but not the original source itself.

[seabeyond]

5. is that a man? when wnyone talks like this, especially a man, it is just creepy and gross.

dont these people have a clue how disgusting this makes THEM.

my son had a classmate say to him, "i bet your mom wanted to abort you". it is just so much worse than other sheit they spew.

[LynneSin]

6. Wowza - I had an abortion and all I got was this lousy VP candidate?

actually I've never even been pregnant but go figure.

If Barack Obama had a 17 year old pregnant daughter we wouldn't have whiniest ass sexist stupid articles like this one written by National Review. Instead we'd be talking about how his daughter was a another teenage statistic and a part of the problem here in the US.

:grr:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

7. What a fucking tool! nt

[ima_sinnic]

8. 'the silent ravages of post abortion suffering"--LOL--how melodramatic & ridiculous

what a fucking dipwad! sheesh, how misguided and just plain fucking STUPID can any one white man be?

[kestrel91316]

10. I've never had an abortion, and hate Palin with a purple passion.

Explain THAT, you christofascist freaks!!!

[yardwork]

18. Me too. Never had an abortion, totally despise Palin, lifeling Democrat....go figure.

[Cleita]

11. Obviously written by a man,

who hasn't a clue as to how women think.

[and-justice-for-all]

12. Fuck the national review....

I would not use that rag to wipe my ass.

[juno jones]

13. I had three

The last two twins. I support a woman's right to never experience that if she truly doesn't want to.

[gkhouston]

15. I haven't had any, and the election's next week. Better call hubby and schedule a nooner! n/t

[shraby]

14. When are men going to quit postulating on what

women feel about abortions??? The whole subject is a very personal one to any woman who is, did or will contemplate getting or not getting one. A man can no more feel what they are going through than they can have periods and understand menstrual cramps...which used to be "all in our heads" at one time.

[onager]

17. Typical for the National (Socialist) Review

n/t

[Dulcinea]

19. WTF?

How would he know anything about how women feel after an abortion anyway? What a putz!

I've never had an abortion, & Sarah Palin wouldn't get my vote for Wasilla PTA president, let alone VPOTUS.