New anti-abortion book to contend with

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Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on January 30, 2011 at 12:04am

Reading it is probably a good idea, then you know what the "strategies" are.

Permalink Reply by Grinning Cat on February 23, 2013 at 11:46pm

My local library doesn't have it, but does offer interlibrary loan. I've submitted a request for the book.

From the publisher's blurb:

In Murphy's scenario, the sidewalk counselor would attempt to persuade the abortion-intent woman on her way to abort to instead come to a pregnancy resource center next door. Once there, the client would receive free; an abortion consultation, a pregnancy test, an ultrasound scan, counseling and free practical and often expensive help. These services according to the book, could cause the pregnant client to realize that she has real alternatives to abortion and that she would change her mind toward life for her little girl or boy.

Emphasis mine. They consistently use such loaded language equating the blastocyst/embryo/fetus, the potential child, with an actual "baby" (perhaps "pre-born" or "unborn") or "little girl or boy" that we can't help but want to protect. That unspoken appeal to emotion needs to be consistently called out and refuted.