{"id":703,"date":"2012-11-14T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T18:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=703"},"modified":"2012-11-14T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T18:19:22","slug":"i-call-enemies-of-abortion-anti-woman-activisits-because-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/11\/14\/i-call-enemies-of-abortion-anti-woman-activisits-because-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"I call enemies of abortion anti-woman activisits because&#8230;THEY ARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-704\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/11\/life.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-704\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/11\/life.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Pro-life&#8221;? How about Savita&#8217;s life?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/10\/30\/the-14-year-old-rape-victim-v-worlds-most-powerful-multinational-allowing-abortion-in-case-of-rape-is-a-lie\/\">recent post<\/a> on abortion, I was accused in the comments of hyperbole, for calling the &#8220;pro-life&#8221; camp anti-woman activists.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as it happens, I was right. Case in point: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/nov\/14\/savita-halappanavar-medically-unnecessary-death\">the woman who died recently in Ireland<\/a>, after being denied an abortion. Because, of course, Ireland is a catholic nation, and church doctrines trump human life, even if sold, ironically, as &#8220;pro-life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/11\/13\/1183231\/denying-abortion-poverty\/?mobile=nc\">researchers concluded<\/a> that denying women access to abortion also increases subsequent risk of falling into poverty (shocker!).<\/p>\n<p>So yes, they are anti-woman activists, in more ways than one. The truth hurts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote a recent post on abortion, I was accused in the comments of hyperbole, for calling the &#8220;pro-life&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}