No offense, but you need to do a better job nitpicking. I did not personally attack the poster initially beyond saying that she needs to keep her mouth shut and learn empathy. Then I attacked his or her bullshit statement. I couldn't even recognize the person's screen name if I saw it again on the boards. It is important that people stand up to bullshitters when they say shit. People shouldn't be afraid to hurt other people's feelings when they say clearly unfounded shit such as what was said.
Let's use an example of what I mean that is not abortion-related. Let's say there is a Neo-Nazi saying that black women deserve to be raped because they are black and white men are superior. I would hope that people would start calling the Neo-Nazi out on his statements as being ridiculous and not sit by because they may trigger depression in the Neo-Nazi by confronting his statements.
I don't care if I triggered depression in the person because the person does need to learn to keep their mouth shut before saying something like that. It added nothing to the debate beyond getting us side-tracked and trying to demean someone who has chosen an abortion.
Anyway, I didn't realize CDC published reports on abortion from the states. It's self-reported and a few states did not report in all the categories (such as four or five for age group.)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwr...cid=ss5808a1_e
Chances are I have been here a lot longer than you have on
TH and I have seen how the site and especially the debate forum has slowly changed with the different moderators. Some of the threads that people post wouldn't have been allowed with several previous moderators.
Do I need to learn empathy? Depends on who you ask. It's a little hard to empathize with someone who doesn't respond to why they would make such a ridiculous statement or at least admit that they made it in anger.
Oh, and GAP stands for Genocide Awareness Project. Last time I checked, Gap the clothing brand was spelled Gap. They refuse to reveal their sources of these so-called abortion pictures. The founders were lawyers from what I understand and they are very quick to file monetary lawsuits for any college that does not allow their pictures in full display in highly trafficked areas.
http://uweekly.com/newsmag/04-21-201...val-are-mocked
Oh, and in 2009 they had large trucks that displayed pictures of quotes that were heavily chopped up from Obama and his wife saying they were pro-choice. I tried to research the quotes but didn't have much luck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9kESs2St4Y <- graphic and I do not recommend watching. I am watching it so it looks like it is anti-abortion side. Their stats are inaccurate when they say over 1.3 million abortions are performed annually as it looks like the number is one a decline. Latest stats for US was under 900,000 compared to a peak of a little under 140,000,000 in 1991. The latest number from the CDC was in 2005. So it's kinda twisting the facts there as those numbers dropped dramatically in 97.