“The anti-abortion movement is brilliant and very committed. These people aren’t going anywhere.”
That’s a quote from Mary Ann Sorrentino, former director of Rhode Island Planned Parenthood and author of the book, “The A Word: Abortion: Real Women, Tough Choices, Personal Freedom.” In an interview with the Providence Journal she gave her opinion on abortion, sex education and the right to life strategy. She considers campaigning to keep abortion legal her “life’s work.” But she is not your ordinary “safe, legal and rare” pro-choicer. She doesn’t even like the term “pro-choice” calling it “defensive” compared to the pro-life epithet “right to life” which she considers “a very powerful term.” Sorrentino wants young people to have a “fire in their belly about this right.” In other words we should be excited and proud of abortion as a right in this country because, “The abortion experience not only equalizes those who go through it, it allows others, not present, to share in the possibility of being, or having been, in the shoes of that day’s patients.” She is afraid that women today take for granted the freedom they have to “terminate a pregnancy.” I am very bothered to know that this woman spends much of her time speaking to our young people on college campuses.
She does acknowledge the strength of the pro-life movement citing our ability to control the language of the debate, specifically with regard to partial birth abortion, a term she considers much more attention grabbing than “late term” abortion. However, we’ve got a long way to go to catch up to the language of “choice,” pregnancy “termination,” and “reproductive rights” invented by the abortion rights movement and adopted by the main stream media (the media, btw, never refers to us as “pro-life” but only and always as “anti-abortion”).
But we are committed and we definitely aren’t going anywhere. As long as unborn children are ripped from their mother’s womb and as long as women are taught, not to love, but to kill in order to solve their problems, we will continue to fight.
“Every day across America, women…lie down on a stretcher, look up at a ceiling, and wait for the medical team to end their pregnancies. Every day this happens to people you know and love. So when you speak of abortion, remember them and bring to mind that woman or women, in your own circle who once existed where these women are now.”
We remember these women, and we pray for them and for women like Mary Ann Sorrentino who have been lead to believe that it is better the to murder an innocent child than to teach women to love and care for the new life within them.
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special thanks to Jill Stanek for pointing out this article.