Have you actually met someone who advocated "forced sterilization of promiscuous teens"? Because ... seriously. I can't even respond to that.

"Aren't you glad your mother was pro-life?" has got to be my favorite. First of all, my mother is pro-choice, and somehow when she found out she was pregnant she DIDN'T have an overwhelming urge to attack her uterus with scissors. And there are a lot of things that enabled me being born (my parents meeting at the particular place they met, having sex on the particular night I was conceived, etc.) and none of those things are moral imperatives. And all of that is SO OBVIOUS with about fifteen seconds of thought. Good lord.

Have you actually met someone who advocated "forced sterilization of promiscuous teens"? Because ... seriously. I can't even respond to that.

Yes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-514542/Why-sterilise-teenage-girls---temporarily-least.html

The "what if it grows up to cure AIDS?" question is easily answered by "What if it grows up to be the next Ted Bundy?"

I'm gonna feel really silly when I ask for the first bingo card, and you provide me with a link that's embarrassingly easy to find.

I'll take that risk. Please?

http://community.feministing.com/2008/08/anti-choice-bingo.html

You're right, it's pretty easy: the first hit when you search 'anti choice bingo' ;)

I love when people ask me if I'm grateful that my mother is pro-life.

As someone else said, my mother is pro-choice. She also had an abortion before she had me. Actually, she had that abortion 8 months before she met my father. In someways, that first abortion is pivotal to my existence.

... I am choosing to read that Daily Mail article as satire. Because otherwise I just cannot cope with it. CRAZY.

It's not satire. Just read the comments at the bottom, as well! They don't let any NON-supportive comments get through, because I tried and they didn't put mine on the page.

the first hit when you search 'anti choice bingo'

Dang it. Thanks for not making me feel TOO silly.

"Women only have abortions because they don't realise is that it's a living baby, not a blob."

The above is probably my "favorite." I know at least three women close to me who have had abortions (that I know of), and not one of them didn't agonize over their decisions. I've always said that one of the biggest myths about the whole pro/anti-choice debate is that women are somehow skipping in delight to the clinic.

HELL. NO. It's a tougher decision than many other people will have to make in their entire lifetimes. We would do well as a society to do what we can, no matter how small, to make that choice, whichever way it goes, one made with forethought, knowledge and confidence in support, not fear and ignorance of all the options.

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