Reply #38: Sometimes it's blatant hypocrisy, but sometimes it's [View All]

a "click" and the whole perspective changes.

Years ago a woman I worked with, a woman in her early 50s, found out she was very unexpectedly pregnant. She had always been adamantly anti-abortion and even though this baby would have caused a huge change in her and her husband's lifestyle, she didn't even consider terminating ---- until she found out the fetus had multiple birth defects, would probably not survive long after birth or would require constant and expensive medical attention, and could die in utero and effectively poison the mother. At that point, somewhere in the second trimester, they opted to terminate. But she never had a "click" moment when she understood the importance of having the right to terminate an unwanted or unhealthy pregnancy. In her eyes, she "had no choice," so no "choice" was needed. Yet she unashamedly took advantage of Roe v. Wade for her own personal convenience, and continued to be "anti-abortion".

That's hypocrisy.

But other people may find themselves in a similar situation, and the light bulb goes on and they see the "error of their ways." So it's not necessarily just the fact that when the shit hits their personal fan, they get enlightened, but rather that for some people, that's what it takes.

Interestingly enough, the acquaintance I mentioned in my earlier post told a mutual friend just the other day that, even though he supports the war and thinks booooosh was absolutely right to go to Iraq and get the WMD that will eventually be found right alongside the diary that proves Saddam and Osama are BFF, if there's a draft reinstituted and his son is called up, he'll send him to Canada! I'm sure he doesn't even know how to spell hypocrisy.


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