{"id":6658,"date":"2015-08-25T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2015-08-25T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:12:08","slug":"becoming-pro-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6658","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Pro-Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming pro-choice is not something that happens often. Heck, switching sides is rare enough, regardless of where you\u2019re going from or to. But J. L. Pattison, in a blog post entitled, <a href=\"http:\/\/pattisonblog.com\/2015\/08\/01\/10-reasons-why-ive-decided-to-become-pro-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c10 reasons why I\u2019ve decided to become pro-choice\u201d<\/a>, makes some points that really are worth checking out. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, he\u2019s almost convinced <i>me<\/i>, which, if I may be so bold, is saying something. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m completely on board \u2013 not all of his points are equally good \u2013 but he made me consider this.<\/p>\n<p>The link is in the show notes, in case you want to find his arguments, but I want to highlight the first one here, just to give you an idea of his power of persuasion.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1). Although I am personally opposed to the practice, I do not want to impose my moral values upon others. So if someone else wants to hunt lions, then who am I to judge? My motto is: If you don\u2019t like lion killing, then don\u2019t kill one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, you can exhale now. You really do want to check out the link to this in the show notes. The other 9 \u201creasons\u201d do basically the same thing; turn <i>abortion<\/i> pro-choice arguments on their head and expose the inverted priorities of a society that values the life of a lion in a country they probably couldn\u2019t pick out on a map, over the millions of babies killed since Roe v Wade. I call them \u201cbabies\u201d because that\u2019s what Planned Parenthood calls them when referring to their organs, harvested for profiteering. Also, because that\u2019s what they are.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in the 3 weeks from the beginning of the release of those videos exposing Planned Parenthood, the media have reflected, and some might say \u201csupported\u201d or \u201cegged on\u201d, those inverted priorities. During that time, the 3 broadcast networks spent <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/katie-yoder\/2015\/08\/05\/3-week-mark-nets-spend-92-minutes-cecil-lion-20-minutes-abortion-videos\" target=\"_blank\">92 minutes on Cecil the Lion<\/a>, and 20 minutes on the videos and subsequent political fallout. Yup, <i>that<\/i> liberal media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming pro-choice is not something that happens often. Heck, switching sides is rare enough, regardless of where you\u2019re going from or to. But J. L. Pattison, in a blog post entitled, \u201c10 reasons why I\u2019ve decided to become pro-choice\u201d, makes some points that really are worth checking out. In fact, he\u2019s almost convinced me, which, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}