Sharron Angle's Advice For Rape Victims Considering Abortion: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade"There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life no matter what it's location, age, gender or disability. So whenever we talk about government and government's role, government's role is to protect life and that's what our Founding Father said, that we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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"I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade."
As easy as that. If you get raped, just have the baby. It is an opportunity, as much as having lemons is an opportunity to make lemonade. Seriously, can someone in their right mind get more cynical than this? She almost makes it sound as if rape were a good thing.
Angle, who is a republican (what else?) candidate for congress, talks of her own heart-warming experience. Good for you, and for the victim of rape who had to receive your advise. But that is it. Personal experience is hardly useful, given the huge amount of "personal experiences" several people can have. That is a bit of a problem in the United States: people are overrated. They tend to think that their opinions are valid for everyone else. Someone needs to stand up and say "I'm sorry, but that is bullshit."
Women who get abortion don't do it because they like to get them. It is already a hard decision, and in the case of rape, a hard decision after a traumatic experience. If we as a society cannot stop that, the least we can do is to provide all the tools and methods available for the victims.
Finally, the God's plan. I usually tend to mock on this because of the nonsensical nature of the plan. I already explain that a God that plans for a rape to happen is a huge asshole. But in the hypothetical case that it had a plan, would we know? Seriously, how would people know that God has a plan, and furthermore, what that plan is? Exactly, no one knows.
But, wait, there are some who know, or at least claim to know. Religious people, especially religious and conservative leaders. They will tell us what God plan is, a plan that usually suits their intolerant, homophobic and misogynistic agenda. These people will brag to the four winds that the know God's plan and consider themselves real, true believers. What a bunch.
I don't know if there is a God or not. But if there is, and he is all those people say about him, I prefer hell.
Hi Noel (I presume) thanks for commenting. As Victor said on my Facebook wall, the idea is that people are educated enough to realize this woman's stupidity. To prohibit someone to run for office because of his or her way of thinking is dangerous, at least, since it might lead to an autocracy.
ReplyDeletethis is Victor ...
ReplyDeletein that other discussion we had about understanding the divine ...
as I said, I think my rational mind led me to a correct understanding of the divine. But I could be wrong, and Angle (or the Taliban) could be right...
Diego, amen: if God is as Angle/Taliban say about him, I too prefer hell.
Nice, then we both might get an opportunity to meet in hell.
ReplyDeleteAs you say, your rational mind allows you to understand the "divine", which is nothing but another thing our brain makes up. Angle and the like-minded are very sure they are right and that their understanding of the divine is because of a revelation. That cannot be proven, therefore, there is no problem in treating it like the nonsense it is. Of course, that doesn't mean that their belief isn't genuine, at least as genuine as those, like you, who are much more rational in their understanding.