#abortin

This article is the second installment. Here is the first. Recap: Living in a democracy during an election means that all of us play some part in election process—even if we vote third party—all of us cast a vote, which means all of us must be prepared to make compromises. How do we know which compromises to make? We must heed our consciences, even as we seek to shape our conscience with God’s…

not sure how much I agree with this but I figured I'd put it out here for yu guys t decide for your selves

Because we've been taught a number of societal values... namely that people with Uteri should not be allowed control, and part of trying to cling to control over people with uteri is telling them they should not be allowed their most basic human right or that this right can somehow 'disappear' the moment we become pregnant (it doesn't).

We've also been taught a stigma against abortion's over the past century and a half (Yep, that's actually all we've had to fight for our right to this over, before then the church actually provided abortions).

We get shown emotionally manipulative propaganda (And propaganda is an extremely effective way of getting people to believe something mindlessly. Check out the programme 'Love, Hate and Propaganda' which covers the propaganda films shown to the people of Germany during the Nazi regime. A lot of what they were shown was extremely convincing stuff).

We get people using emotionally manipulative language like 'Babies' which stir's a natural instinct of protection and makes us imagine fully autonomous infant's being killed and 'Murder' which is something everyone knows is wrong.

We get people ascribing person hood to fetuses where none exists.

Then we have the mass of people who honestly believe they're doing something good (They actually aren't). They're the people who have bought into the propaganda. They are also unable to separate their hyper-awareness, a unique thing to born human beings and recognise that they were not always as hyper aware as they are now.

They are not willing to separate the fact that though they are people now, and aware and autonomous now, from the very real fact that they weren't always.

Taller Salud, Inc.

Taller Salud will be participating in 3 events related to the September 28 campaign:

Creation and distribution of a short video in which men speak up about the right to safe and legal abortion

An open discussion forum on September 25 at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus

A webcams broadcast at 2pm Saturday Sept 21 on bonitaradio.net in which Taller Salud's Youth Peer health Educators speak about the right to abortion

Women's Movement from Puerto Rico, PROFAMILIA

Women's Movement from Puerto Rico will held a forum on abortion at the University of Puerto Rico main campus next Thursday, Sept. 25th and, PROFAMILIA (form IPPF), will have a conference for their staff on abortion and stigma on Friday 27th and will reproduce widely, Taller Salud posters on abortion, that were designed and produced last year for the 28th Campaign at the local level. And of course, the Regional Call to Action and the WGNRR Call to Action is been shared widely particularly thru the social networks.