I like to drive and I’ve driven a lot in my life. I’ve driven in more states than I care to count and quite a few countries as well. But I hate driving in Florida. It’s not the old folks that scare me. It’s not the teenagers either. It isn’t even the propensity of Floridians to run red lights. It’s the billboards.
I went many, many years without driving in Florida but in 2001 my world changed and I made my first trip. I saw a billboard. I said "hmmm" and promptly put it out of my mind. But then I saw another and another and another and before I could really process this I had seen so many that I considered never entering this state again. (I also considered abandoning my vehicle and flying home to good ole South Carolina where I was mostly safe from such madness). Now look at me – I live in this state and I see these things every single time I leave my house. Because they aren’t just on billboards along the freeway, they are on buses on campus and buses in the city. They are everywhere. They make me ill. They make me angry.
Here, Look for yourself but don’t say that I didn’t warn you. They should make you ill too because they are intended to mislead you and manipulate you. They are intended to prey upon the guilt that society has set upon you, guilt that is unwarranted and unnecessary.
If you are anti-abortion, then so be it. I support your right to choose. These folks do not support your right to choose. They want only to manipulate your mind and your emotions. They sprinkle their website with lies, half-truths and religious fear. They care absolutely nothing about giving you the right to make up your own mind.
Do not be manipulated. Misleading statements, half-truths and opinions are not FACTS. Choose for yourself, do not let these people choose for you. It is your right to CHOOSE. If you allow people like this to manipulate you into believing there is no choice how long will it be before they take away yet another choice – and another – do these people deserve that power over you? over your daughter? over your family? I don’t think that they do.
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Ugh. Now I’ve got that website on my history file.
My favorite? “Life and Liberty begins at conception.” I’d like to spraypaint “and end at pregnancy” over it.
Strangely enough, it’s not free; it’s trapped and tethered in the womb.
Ugh, I’m sorry it’s trapped in your history! I warned you. 🙁