I try not to pay attention to these things but sometimes the stupid is so thick I just can’t resist.
What you have here is the usual deliberate distortion from the right. And it IS deliberate. It’s possible that the person who made this picture is actually so profoundly ignorant that they think this is accurate but I seriously doubt it. After months of the phrase “trans-vaginal ultrasound” being tossed around and the magical power of the internet that can show what that is as quickly as you can type it, I can only conclude that the point is to mislead gullible idiots. How else would a person confuse a regular ultrasound for a T-V ultrasound?
Just so you know, this particular picture was posted on April 21, long after the controversy started.
A further deliberate distortion is that liberals think abortion is “non-invasive.” This insinuates that we think it is no big deal. Nobody thinks this. We think it’s a traumatic and heart-wrenching decision to make but absolutely private and no one else’s business. Our goal is to make them safe and as rare as possible. Conservatives think pregnancy is a divine punishment for women having sex and want to do everything they can to ensure as many “punishment pregnancies” possible. Why else do you think they oppose contraception and sex ed so bitterly?
This is how the right debases political and moral debates in this country. Liberals says, “We want to keep violent criminals from buying guns” and a conservative will claim we said, “Ban all guns.” Liberals say, “We want everyone to have access to healthcare” and a conservative will claim we said, “Kill the sick and elderly.” Liberals say, “America is open to all religions, not just Christianity” and a conservative will claim we said, “Ban Christianity and the Bible.”
This is how people who are afraid to confront their own failings respond. Rather than simply admit their greed or fear or prejudice, they mischaracterize our positions to make it easier on their conscience when they oppose us. If conservatives would only be honest about their motivations, we could have an honest conversation but that will never happen as long as the political platform of the right is built on hate and anger.
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There is “justification” for the picture. It is illegal to show the picture of a trans-vaginal probe being inserted, that’s pornography! (And I don’t have a pornograph to play it on – oh wait, yes I do.
Oh, crap – my computer is a Gateway drug…
(Yes, these propagandists are ruthless, VERY well-funded and do nothing but play on the fears of the ignorant and Fox-addled. So just continue to confront them loudly and publicly. “THAT’S A LIE! DID YOU HEAR IT ON FOX NEWS?” Embarrassment can do much that pure simple truth or fact cannot. Especially in this age of manufactured ‘truths’ crafted from the need for greed. As Roger Ailes, president of Fox News Channel said, “‘The Truth’ is whatever people will believe.”
The best way to fight Right Wing propaganda is to boycott the sponsors. All Koch companies and all Fox advertisers. Not just Rush or the other talking parrots- EVERYBODY, down to the weather girl. (Guy? I wouldn’t know, I never knowingly watch the network. If Fox told me it was sunny, I’d bring an umbrella AND parka.) If they advertise on a Fox program, let them know you will no longer buy their product. See what a bit of reverse economic war does to the bottom line.
We think it’s a traumatic and heart-wrenching decision to make but absolutely private and no one else’s business. Our goal is to make them safe and as rare as possible.
I disagree with this somewhat. I think this plays into the rightwing frame of making abortion something for women to feel guilty about. For making abortion bad.
Abortion isn’t bad. For most women it’s necessary, neither good or bad. For a lot of women, it’s a good thing–they feel nothing but relieved to know they’re no longer pregnant.
For that reason, I think we should stress the “safe” and “legal,” and leave the “rare” part out of it.
Where the Talibangelicals lose me is, why do they demand that fetuses be carried to term and become children, if they plan to starve the children? Are they THAT cruel? Poor women should have to provide toys for them to torture?
What satisfaction, religious, philosophical or sexual, do they derive while abusing children?
To me, this smells just like a Luntz propaganda item … of course, propaganda/lying is his forte