I LAHH TAYLAHH. (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} backbeatxrhythm) wrote, |
Subj: here are the picures of the miscarried fetuses you JUST KNEW i was going to send you. (sarcasm drip included.)
listen, the point of my guestbook comment was simply to say that i think your site is unbelievably interesting and could have (and i'm sure, has had) a great impact on the abortion debate, which is what i (obviously incorrectly) assumed your purpose was in creating it. i was under the misunderstanding that you - like every other webmaster on the internet - would welcome feedback and criticism from your users in order to give your powerful forum all the more impact. maybe you should be a contestant on Completely Missing The Point.
since you've already assumed my position for me, let me correct your jaded conclusion. choosing life was never political or religious for me. it was and always will be one hundred percent emotional, and no amount of not-sorry women are going to make me believe that aborting a fetus is an okay thing to do - which is also something i've said to the many women in my life who have terminated their pregnancies. i (and many like me) do not judge but do not like the idea that abortions are performed (legally OR illegally), so leave me with my opinion and have some respect for it, like you insist and demand that i do for yours. otherwise i will shit on it like you shit all over mine.
my point, dear webmaster, is that the women who have submitted stories to your site are not the only ones with passion for the topic whose voices are not heard. in order to be pro-life, you have to march around with posters of aborted fetuses and recite bible verses and throw amniotic fluid or something on any woman who walks into a clinic to terminate their pregnancy. this is not how i operate, and what's really sad is that like all the not-sorry women you're giving a voice to i am turned away from MY side of the debate because i do not believe that you're going to hell for having the procedure done. when i found your website, i was only interested in the mature dialogue that could have taken place between women in my shoes and women in yours. i'm not telling you to change the premise of the site, i'm not trying to change your opinion, i wasn't out looking for flaws, i wasn't going to pray for your corrupted soul or show you any videos. the point i was trying to make - which sadly, YOU missed entirely - was that your website could be even better were it not chock-full of the very bullshit that is ever-present in the pro-life/anti-life debate. the the misunderstood parties of both sides of the debate could come together, but such blatant and in-your-face intolerance make it impossible. no doubt you're the kind of woman who gives a big ol' "fuck you" to anyone who steps on your toes, but if you just stop to think for a minute you'd see that it just feels better to not keep perpetuating the negativity others have projected onto you (which is no doubt why you're so bitter) and make the decision to present YOUR facts in a way that is still powerful but WAY less self-righteous. i am, however, under no such misconception that you would ever do something like that. i also understand that you are running an entirely anti-life website and that my pro-life opinions are not your focus, and just so you know i wouldn't have said anything at all had you not declared in big yellow letters on the front page that you "welcome all visitors of all opinions as long as they are respectful of our views," which is clearly not the case.
and since you like to curtail the propagation of myths so much, zero of the adoptive parents i've ever met in my life - my own included - have made their children feel like they are "not really theirs." i have no idea where you would have gotten this idea, and if this actually happens somewhere (and with as much frequency as you so callously declare) i'm truly heartbroken. and the weepy reunion i shared with the woman who gave me up 21 years earlier, her entire family and my "real parents" (whatever that means? i thought everyone only had one set of parents, so why do i need to make a distinction?) was oprah-like and straight out of a hallmark card, thanks.
very truly yours,
Michelle
listen, the point of my guestbook comment was simply to say that i think your site is unbelievably interesting and could have (and i'm sure, has had) a great impact on the abortion debate, which is what i (obviously incorrectly) assumed your purpose was in creating it. i was under the misunderstanding that you - like every other webmaster on the internet - would welcome feedback and criticism from your users in order to give your powerful forum all the more impact. maybe you should be a contestant on Completely Missing The Point.
since you've already assumed my position for me, let me correct your jaded conclusion. choosing life was never political or religious for me. it was and always will be one hundred percent emotional, and no amount of not-sorry women are going to make me believe that aborting a fetus is an okay thing to do - which is also something i've said to the many women in my life who have terminated their pregnancies. i (and many like me) do not judge but do not like the idea that abortions are performed (legally OR illegally), so leave me with my opinion and have some respect for it, like you insist and demand that i do for yours. otherwise i will shit on it like you shit all over mine.
my point, dear webmaster, is that the women who have submitted stories to your site are not the only ones with passion for the topic whose voices are not heard. in order to be pro-life, you have to march around with posters of aborted fetuses and recite bible verses and throw amniotic fluid or something on any woman who walks into a clinic to terminate their pregnancy. this is not how i operate, and what's really sad is that like all the not-sorry women you're giving a voice to i am turned away from MY side of the debate because i do not believe that you're going to hell for having the procedure done. when i found your website, i was only interested in the mature dialogue that could have taken place between women in my shoes and women in yours. i'm not telling you to change the premise of the site, i'm not trying to change your opinion, i wasn't out looking for flaws, i wasn't going to pray for your corrupted soul or show you any videos. the point i was trying to make - which sadly, YOU missed entirely - was that your website could be even better were it not chock-full of the very bullshit that is ever-present in the pro-life/anti-life debate. the the misunderstood parties of both sides of the debate could come together, but such blatant and in-your-face intolerance make it impossible. no doubt you're the kind of woman who gives a big ol' "fuck you" to anyone who steps on your toes, but if you just stop to think for a minute you'd see that it just feels better to not keep perpetuating the negativity others have projected onto you (which is no doubt why you're so bitter) and make the decision to present YOUR facts in a way that is still powerful but WAY less self-righteous. i am, however, under no such misconception that you would ever do something like that. i also understand that you are running an entirely anti-life website and that my pro-life opinions are not your focus, and just so you know i wouldn't have said anything at all had you not declared in big yellow letters on the front page that you "welcome all visitors of all opinions as long as they are respectful of our views," which is clearly not the case.
and since you like to curtail the propagation of myths so much, zero of the adoptive parents i've ever met in my life - my own included - have made their children feel like they are "not really theirs." i have no idea where you would have gotten this idea, and if this actually happens somewhere (and with as much frequency as you so callously declare) i'm truly heartbroken. and the weepy reunion i shared with the woman who gave me up 21 years earlier, her entire family and my "real parents" (whatever that means? i thought everyone only had one set of parents, so why do i need to make a distinction?) was oprah-like and straight out of a hallmark card, thanks.
very truly yours,
Michelle
