Anti-Abortion Activists

Another pro-life group is known as the Pro-life Action League. This group holds prayer vigils outside abortion facilities and provides sidewalk counseling to women and/or couples seeking abortions. The goal of this is to provide abortion alternatives, counseling, access to pregnancy resources, etc. This group is also involved in public protests to raise awareness of the injustice of abortion; they participate in marches, pickets, prayer vigils, and also raise awareness by holding large abortion pictures on busy streets to show what the end result of abortion is on an unborn child. They also hold a monthly protest at Planned Parenthood in Aurora, one of the busiest Planned Parenthood clinics, and protest pro-abortion politicians and other public figures that oppose the rights of unborn babies. Some of the other objectives of this group are to confront abortionists, abortion promoters, infiltrate pro-choice group meetings, and provide training to pro-life activists to help them organize effective programs and become successful pro-life leaders. I have discussed four very different groups, half are pro-choice and half are pro-life. While researching groups actively participating in rallying for or against abortion, there were so many with different tactics and resources available for both sides of the abortion debate.

Twenty to thirty million legal abortions occur worldwide each year. The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between – (Mother Teresa). Before 1973, individual states were allowed to decide whether abortion would be legal within their borders. The topic of abortion and whether or not it is right or wrong is a constant debate in todays society. Everyone has their own beliefs on the matter, but it should not be a question of what we believe, it should be the question of whether or not this procedure should be considered an illegal act. There are hundreds of woman everyday that have an abortion, and hundreds of innocent lives being slaughtered legally. The fact that this procedure is legal in the U.S, and that people actually see it as their “choice” or “right” to abort the baby, disturbs me immensely. Preforming the procedure of an abortion should be illegal in all states because abortion is murder, the fetuses can feel the pain during the procedure, and abortion can lead to psychological damage.

One of the most controversial topics in politics is abortion. In class, we talked about the different type of abortions there are and the many different opinions that people may have about them. We also discussed the many reasons why a woman may choose to have an abortion. And surprisingly, what I thought I knew about them was completely wrong. Thus since learning about the reasons why one may get an abortion, I have changed my opinion on the topic and I was curious to find out what my mom’s opinion may be because abortions were not something that we had discussed before. Also, I thought it would be interesting to see if our opinions differed dramatically since most of our values come from our parents. Overall, my mother was in support of

Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. The subject of weather or not abortion should be permissible has came into question. A liberal's belief would be that a women has the right to decide what happens with her body. The decision to have an abortion is a personal choice of a women regarding her own body and the government should protect that right. A conservative's belief would be that abortion is the murder of a human being. That women should not be able to abort their unborn child. The liberal veiwpoint is correct in this topic of interest. A woman should have the right to have an abortion. If a child is not wanted then that child should be aborted. Why bring a child into the world that is not wanted and loved? If the

Therefore, they could just get unplanned pregnancy and always go to planned parenthood for the abortion to take place. (Calmes, Jackie. With Planned Parenthood Videos, Activist Ignites Abortion Issue, July 21, 2015). There are many people all over the United States fight to stop abortion and anti-abortion groups are beginning to form. David Daleiden is one of the research activist that was sent to talk to those about planned parenthood and try to dig more into the organization and make videos over it, to try to shut down the entire organization. Daleiden had made anti-abortion group within the high schools to try to have more rebellion. He then carried on the group through his college years. Later on he began to receive money for what he is doing in trying to stop this organization and going into more research. The Republican party of United States, is trying to shut down the organization, as well as trying to lower budget costs to fund the organization and convince those to join the anti-abortion activist group. (Calmes, Jackie. With Planned Parenthood Videos, Activist Ignites Abortion Issue, July 21, 2015). The Republican Party opposes the idea of Planned Parenthood and

Planned parenthood was established in 1916 in Brownsville, Brooklyn by Sanger, Byrne, and Mindell; their goal was to educate individuals and give them the necessary care that they would need. By doing so they gave millions of people a second chance to live and continue to gather opportunities because they allowed them to have control over their lives. They fought to give women the right to contraception, starting off with the Griswold v. Connecticut that allowed married women to utilize birth control. Statistics show that one out of four married women under the age 45 decided to use birth control. Planned Parenthood did not stop there, they eventually in 1972 Eisenstaedt v. Baird made it so unmarried women are a loud contraception (Planned Parenthood Is 100 Years Strong).

The Center for Medical Progress filed a criminal investigation against Planned Parenthood in a Texas court based on their recordings in 2015, but in a turn of events, a Texas grand jury found Planned Parenthood committed no wrongdoing, and instead the jury indicted those responsible for the videos, anti-abortion activists Daniel Daleidan and Sandra Merritt on tampering with government documents. Daleidan was also indicted based on a statute against the sale or purchasing of fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood is seeking money in restitution for damages. (Reddin,

In Texas, a Planned Parenthood has been under investigation on several accounts; however, it has been announced that it has been cleared after the two-month-long investigation. There were two people who were involved in making secret videos of the group and the videos were released to the public. David Daleiden was indicted on the account of the buying and selling human organs and Sandra Merritt was indicted for tampering with governmental record. A warrant for Daleiden was issued this past Monday. A spokesperson from Planned Parenthood stated, "We respect the processes of the Harris County District Attorney, and note that buying fetal tissue requires a seller as well. Planned Parenthood still cannot deny the admissions from their leadership about fetal organ sales captured on video for all the world to see.” The Planned Parenthood organization wants everyone to know they had not partaken in the actions that the two individuals did.

Planned Parenthood can be described as a liberation movement because they seek equality between all people and work to provide services to all people regardless of societal viewpoints. The mission statement that they hold displays signs of a liberation movement but due to their direct-action tactics, they also use elements of a radical feminist group. Planned Parenthood attacks the patriarchy that we live in and the rape culture that is implemented into society through various channels by the projects they work on, the ideas they advocate for, and the tactics they use to achieve their goals. Per Victoria Bromley, “Radical feminists have proclaimed an end to such controlling patriarchal practices since the 1980’s. They called for women to see beauty more naturally in themselves and in other women rather than succumbing to torturous regimes” (Feminisms Matter, 2012). Planned Parenthood not only provides positive self-image services to both boys and girls, but also displays body positive messages on social media outlets such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook which parallels to actions and ideas of many radical feminists.

Groups advocating for reproductive choice: Diverse. Groups advocating to "Abolish Abortion": Old white people (Literally at the capitol this week). Why is this telling: Because the anti-abortion movement began not in order to protect women or the "unborn", but LITERALLY TO PROTECT "THE PURITY OF THE WHITE RACE". And instead of women having abortions, white women had children and women who were seen as unfit (women of color, poor women, women with disabilities) WERE FORCIBLY STERILIZED. They didn't have the option to engage in motherhood. Furthermore, to this day, federal funds will not cover abortions, but medicaid will cover hysterectomies, and many politicians push for the sterilization of poor women to prevent them from "continuing the cycle

Over several centuries and in different cultures, there is a rich history of women helping each other to abort. Until the late 1800s, women healers in Western Europe and the U.S. provided abortions and trained other women to do so, without legal prohibitions. There were many different ways they attempted to do this procedure; such as a pennyroyal tea, which according to Thorpe, is toxic at just five grams. They believed that jumping and kicking yourself in the buttocks would also make a women have a miscarriage. Sitting over a pot of hot onions, and using camel saliva, ants, and deer hair was also a popular way to have an abortion back then. In today’s society abortion has become a major social issue that will never be resolved. It is a topic that some people avoid in our society. They would rather pretend it does not excite than recognize it as part in our society. The two advocacy groups that stand firm in their moral beliefs are conservatives who stand for pro-life and liberals who stand for pro-choice. They do not take this issue lightly, there has been countless debates about whether it is murder or not. However, it always ends the same way with now solution. There are four major points to look at when discussing the issue of abortion, legal precedence, human rights, religion and when life beings. It is important to look at what functions do these point play in society and what conflicts it has in society.

For most of the late history about abortion, aborting an early pregnancy have been considered a private matter and was not considered a crime. The people did not believe human life was present during pregnancy, as time went on and technology advances the knowledge about the fetus have increased. “There are three main views: first, the extreme conservative view (held by the Catholic Church); second, the extreme liberal view, and third, moderate views which lie between both extremes” (http://www.iep.utm.edu/abortion/#SH1a). The conservative views abortion as inhuman and want to abolish abortion altogether, while the extreme liberal believe that women have the right to abort the child, and the moderate is like a bystander they do not pick a side.

The video is like a propaganda filmed by a non-profit organization discussing about CCHR (Citizens Commission on Human Rights). The Psychiatrists used their trusts from people to make false diagnosis in order to get more money from the patients, labeling everyone with illness and drug people that may danger their health. The origination interviewed a couple of well-known psychiatrists, even though by participating in this video may question their credibility. The video provides a lot of big numbers, but some facts are not credible at all and they didn’t tell us where the information is from. The video is somehow bias by only showing patients and patients’ families with tears and telling people how much they have suffered

Since the 2010 midterm elections states have enacted 231 abortion restrictions. In 2000, 13 states were considered hostile to abortion rights, with four or five types of abortion restriction. By 2010, 22 states were considered hostile to abortion rights. Five states had 6 or more restrictions, enough to be considered extremely hostile. In 2014, 27 states had enough restrictions to be considered hostile and 18 states had enough restrictions to be considered extremely hostile. The entire South is now considered hostile to abortion rights. Much of the South and Midwest is considered extremely hostile. (Nash, Gold, Rathbun, & Vierboom, 2014) The proportion of women living in hostile states has surges as well. In 2000, 31% of women of reproductive

The group of people who promote social changes are called social movement. There are four general type of social movements. The reactionary movement that also known as regressive movement and their aims is to reverse the social change. Reactionary movement’s highlight is greatness or importance of the traditional values, institutional arrangements and ideologies of society. They also criticize the fast paced changes and also block the social change that been achieved from the past. Tea Party is considerable as example of this movement – since they can’t believe on changes that just happened. Antiabortion Movement is an example too, they seek to eliminate or limit the legality of abortion in the society.