{"id":5891,"date":"2009-11-03T07:03:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T12:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5891"},"modified":"2009-11-03T08:49:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T13:49:36","slug":"this-is-how-the-war-is-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5891","title":{"rendered":"This Is How The War Is Won"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve said in the past, abortion isn’t my biggest hot-button issue.\u00a0 I figure if the terrorists win, the staffs at NARAL and Pro Life Action are equally screwed.<\/p>\n

But as I’ve also said in the past, I think technology is going to sway this issue in favor of pro-lifers.\u00a0 The number of abortions is dropping<\/a>, in significant part because as modern, cheap, ubiquitous ultrasound shows people that a “fetus” is identifiably human looong before Planned Parenthood will cop to it, they get second thoughts about aborting.\u00a0 And the ultrasound is changing minds <\/a>– more Americans now identify as pro-life <\/a>than pro-death.<\/p>\n

Which is background to this story:\u00a0 Abby Johnson, a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas, prodded by watching an ultrasound of a “tissue mass” being killed off, has defected to the good guys<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI just thought I can\u2019t do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Johnson claims that Planned Parenthood, strapped for money, was pushing to make abortion Safe, Legal and a Profit Center; they make more money from “terminations” than counseling, apparently.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood is seeking a restraining order – not against Johnson’s presence on their property (Johnson has been appearing with “Coalition for Life”, a pro-life group, in pray-ins at the Planned Parenthood clinic) but against the potential for client confidentiality to be violated.\u00a0 Which, I suspect, really means “talking about abortion”.<\/p>\n

At any rate – this is how abortion gets settled as an issue; as millions of individuals get convinced by seeing the awful truth (or, less traumatically, the palpable humanity of their own “tissue masses” with their own eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’ve said in the past, abortion isn’t my biggest hot-button issue.\u00a0 I figure if the terrorists win, the staffs at NARAL and Pro Life Action are equally screwed. But as I’ve also said in the past, I think technology is going to sway this issue in favor of pro-lifers.\u00a0 The number of abortions is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5893,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}