Abortion Debate
| March 11, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
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Now here’s a debate you can’t miss, if you are free on Wednesday Evening, March 11th. (Many thanks to Tessa for the cc)
The Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut will be debating the Executive Director of the Family Institute of Connecticut Peter Wolfgang at the Lincoln Theater on the University of Hartford’s campus. Doors open at 7 p.m. To see more details, click this link.
Loved it!
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anti-choice dude (peter wolfgang) compared pro-choicers to Nazis. yeah.
the situation of a 9-year-old girl being raped by her stepfather, and consequently being impregnated by him, was brought up. she sought out an abortion and peter was asked what he thought. he said "she chose to make a bad situation worse. she fought violence with more violence". and when he responded to my question (that i posed to the executive director of NARAL) regarding "legal" abortion not being accessible (and safe) to all, he said "good. im glad people have trouble accessing abortions. i wish nazis had as much trouble accessing concentration camps". i cant even count the number of times he compared pro-choicers to nazis.
he also talked about how the early feminists were pro-life (so that somehow logically concluded that "real" feminists are pro-life), but neglected to mention that they (some of them at least) were also racist. but he used their anti-choice stance for his argument, but also played the race card (calling pro-choicers akin to racists), so he played both sides of the fence (big surprise).
we have a law (roe v wade) making abortion legal, and he said "we also had a law that deemed blacks [sic] 3/5 of a person". but then he said that the founding fathers would "roll over in their graves" if they saw that abortion is legal now-a-days. but those are the same founding fathers that owned and raped their slaves and drafted the 3/5 of a person proposal. peter also constantly referred to women having control over their bodies (in the sense of having access to abortion) as being akin to slave owners having rights over their slave's lives.
i honestly almost vomited.
and good that there was NARAL to counteract his arguments, but too bad that they have a pretty liberal agenda when it comes to reproductive freedom (or rights, as they would have it).
thank you so much abbey for a report back on this "debate" for I had a conflict last eve. omg, i am simply at a loss at what to say and amazed you were able to make it through without vomiting. peter has taken some really draconian stands around covenant marriage and fatherlessness, to mention a few, though this rant by him seems to have really set him apart. thanks again abbey!!!
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