DISGUSTING: Woman Asks Pro-Lifers To Give $1 Million To STOP Her From Having An Abortion

Just when I think the pro-abortion crowd could do no worse, they find new ways to shock and disgust me. There are few things more heinous that I could read this morning than this story.

According to this, a woman who has remained unidentified has opened up a crowd-funding campaign in order to bribe people to stop her from having an abortion. The website is prolifeantiwoman.com (which tells you pretty much all you need to know about this whackadoodle) and it reads thusly –

How much would you pay to stop an abortion?

I am a twenty-six-year-old female and I am currently 7 weeks pregnant. I have every intention of having an abortion, but I'm giving you a chance to stop it.

I'm enrolled in a graduate program in a state that very recently passed extremely restrictive abortion laws that impose unnecessary waiting time to get an abortion and attempt to enforce rules that bypass the doctor/patient privacy privilege. I now feel more comfortable traveling to my home state to get an abortion than I do trying to get one here.

On July 7th I will start accepting donations on this page. I will accept donations for 72 hours, the same amount of time this state currently requires a woman to wait after a consultation with a doctor until she can have an abortion. If one million dollars is raised in those 72 hours then I'll have the baby, give it up for adoption and every cent of that one million dollars will be put in a trust fund for the child, which he or she will have access to when they turn 21.

I'll keep none of the money for myself so if I am to be vilified in this process, it can't be for that. If the one million dollar goal is not met by the end of those 72 hours, any and all donations received will be refunded and I will have an abortion that I have already scheduled for July 10th in my home state. Mathematically this means that every one of the 157 million Americans that identify as pro-life needs to donate less than one cent to stop this abortion.

The backward direction this country is headed in terms of its treatment of women I feel is due in large part to the influence of the religious right disguised as the pro-life movement. The pro-life movement cares very little about saving lives and far more about controlling women by minimizing their choices in a wide variety of ways not the least of which is readily available reproductive health care.

I will do my best to remain anonymous in this process as what I aim to prove has nothing to do with me personally. I hope to give the American public a concrete example that the conservative right in America doesn't actually care about the life of a child, they care about controlling the lives and choices of women. We have to acknowledge this and we have to  stop it.

Good grief, she sounds like a Bond villain. Probably has a shadowy lair where she's running this extortion scheme out of and an evil-looking cat that sneers at all her quippy one-liners.

Basically, she's holding her unborn child ransom against the pro-life crowd and then when/if her demands aren't met, she's going to parade her dead baby around and say "See! See! You pro-lifers don't really care about anybody! You could have stopped this and you didn't! You're all horrible awful people and I just proved it! WAR ON WOMEN!" She'll probably make rounds on the talk show circuit, maybe a book deal, quite possibly a crappy Lifetime movie – all to promote the fact that pro-lifers didn't pony up $1 million to save one child's life, and thus, don't mean it when they say they believe life is sacred.

I will give her this – at least she's honest about using her baby as a purely political prop for this incredibly disgusting stunt. That is the ONLY shred of credit I will give her (and even that's not saying much). She's not getting an abortion because of health reasons or any of those other excuses pro-abortion people say abortion should be used for. It's all the prove some sick and twisted point and an innocent life is getting caught in the middle of it.

The stunt has met with criticism from both sides of the abortion argument (thank goodness for small miracles. Very, very small miracles) –

The woman's appeal has been criticised by both the pro-life and pro-choice movements in the US.

 

"This smacks of extortion and a media stunt," President of the pro-life group Operation Rescue Troy Newman told VICE News. "There's nobody that's going to give in to this ridiculous piece of nonsense trying to present to us an ultimatum.

 

 "What would stop her or a thousand other women from just getting pregnant and thinking the pro-life movement would give them a million dollars? That's why we don't give into extortion and threats."

 

Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition Joyce Arthur told VICE News she agrees with the point the woman is trying to make, but think this particular attempt at getting the pro-choice message out is misguided. 

 

"It sounds sincere," Ms Arthur said of the woman's appeal.

 

"It's an interesting and perhaps clever idea, but I disagree with it because I don't think it will fulfill the goal that it states. She wants to show the hypocrisy of the pro-life movement and make them step up to the plate, but I don't think it's going to work. They're not looking at it from that perspective."

So if you're pro-life, you either better open up your wallet or shut your mouth. Or mock this chick for her COMPLETELY WHACK set of priorities. Whichever works.