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NARAL Goes Back to Its Hippie Roots?
This spoken word video is part of NARAL's new effort to connect with the youth of America. The campaign is called "free.will.power." Here at SuzyB.org most of us are under 25. We are the youth of America. But after viewing the video several times, we don't really get it. . .is it just us? What is the main message here? Without the corresponding website which sort of explains their agenda, we're not quite sure people would get the message.
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Re: NARAL Goes Back to Its Hippie Roots?
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Anonymous
on Thu 13 Nov 2008 05:11 PM EST | Permanent Link
I've watched it three times and still can't figure it out.
Re: NARAL Goes Back to Its Hippie Roots?
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cminor
on Thu 13 Nov 2008 08:48 PM EST | Permanent Link
Well, I'm old enough to (sort of) remember the '60's and there's definitely something familiar about the style. Being a child at the time, I didn't indulge in pharmaceuticals under the influence of which the whole vid would have "made sense;" thus it's hard to say what it all means.
"I believe that I am FREE to make my own decisions. I believe that my WILL can create progress and push. I believe that choice is POWER. " (from website) The vagueness of this campaign is interesting but not really surprising to me. (It has its commonalities with "Change" and "Hope.") They seem reticent to acknowledge what exactly the "choice" they are endorsing is. It's obvious if you already know where they're coming from, but I could easily see someone not really paying attention signing on without realizing they're joining a primarily pro-abortion political action site. Abortion is jumbled (it seems deliberate) with contraception, rape treatement, and sex ed in such a way that it is very easily overlooked. I suspect they're aware they won't attract much support if they make their primary purpose clear. All that remains to be done is come up with a new acronym that doesn't mention abortion. Re: NARAL Goes Back to Its Hippie Roots?
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Lauren P.
on Thu 13 Nov 2008 09:49 PM EST | Permanent Link
It's ironic that the poet posits planned parenthood's position as 'be productive'.
Bah, the point of the vid is "stand up and speak out to demand your reproductive rights because keeping all forms of birth control free and easily accessible to everyone is the only way to truly be free and move to the beat of your own drummer. Anything less is way too inconvenient." Nothing new here. Move along. Re: NARAL Goes Back to Its Hippie Roots?
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Serena
on Fri 14 Nov 2008 03:37 PM EST | Permanent Link
She's not even much of a hippie. I live in Hippie HQ-USA-Central West Coast Division, and she looks like a bureaucrat around here does.
I believe that I am FREE to make any decision that doesn't kill someone else. I believe that my WILL and God's WILL together can do anything that is right, whereas if I choose evil I WILL be on my own, but I WILL not choose evil. I believe that the choice to do good is better than mere human POWER, it's LIFE, and as a scientist character in Jurassic Park said, LIFE finds a way. I believe abortion will always smell just like the racist, ageist, classist, misogynistic DEATH TRIP it always was no matter how NARAL tries to link it to freedom. Re: NARAL Goes Back to Its Hippie Roots?
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Maggie
on Fri 14 Nov 2008 05:37 PM EST | Permanent Link
Utterly ridiculous.
Abortion is about freedom? Um, okay. I'm sure the child being killed certainly agrees. You want freedom? Chastity. Before and after marriage. Don't want to become pregnant? Don't have sex while you're ovulating. This shouldn't be that hard. Ugh. Re: Re: NARAL Goes Back to Its Hippie Roots?
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Anonymous
on Sun 16 Nov 2008 03:47 PM EST | Permanent Link
Thank you. Exactly.
I made several free choices: I could choose whether or not to be married, and if so, to whom and when. I chose not to. I could then choose whether or not to have sex. I chose not to have sex. Had I chosen sex, I could have chosen to use a barrier (i.e. nonlethal) birth control method, or NFP, or a combination of the two, or to become pregnant. Had I chosen to become pregnant, I could then choose to give birth at home or in a hospital, in a wide range of different ways:underwater, with a doula, all kind of choices abound. Then, I could choose whether to give my child up for full closed adoption, full open adoption, or semi-open adoption, in a fantastic variety of possible arrangements; to give her/him up for foster care, again with infinite kinds of arrangements; to raise her/him alone; with friends; with family; in a communal situation; with a roommate; with a boyfriend.... So many choices. There is just ONE choice NO ONE, male or female, has the right to: murder. That's because a wrong isn't a right. As it happens, I chose chastity. I'm pleased with my choice. As a chaste person, I have the choice to adopt or foster children, or to live childless. The choices just go on and on. And so does life. Life is the inclusive position. It allows every choice that doesn't kill. Someone who gives life continues to make choices. Someone who has been killed will not live again. We need to remind people of that. It isn't life that restricts and narrows the choices, it's the choice of death that does so, by ending someone's very life. The ad is disingenuoous about the words "free" and "will"; it's just sophistic about "power", using the word in a way other than they hope it will be taken. NARAL's position is that abortion safeguerds a woman's capacity to participate in society. Yet, what occupations does pregnancy allow? Pregnant women can and do run billion-dollar companies, countries, empires (in the past), universities; invent world-changing goods; design buildings, interiors, parks and cities; runt he world alongside the nonpregnant. What occupations does it hamper? Pregnant women are advised not to handle dangerous chemicals; lift heavy weights; test drugs on themselves; engage in active combat. It's the occupations we are least likely to want, the lowest paid, the most deadly to us, that we shouldn't "participate in" while with child. Pregnancy doesn't impede us from reaching our goals, it just causes us some time off at the weedkiller plant. So what is NARAL's real goal? Perhaps some members of that organization seriously doubt the humanity of the unborn, but with what science knows now, probably not all do. Perhaps some really worry that women will be enslaved if we have to choose from our thousands of other choices rather than choosing abortion. But probably not all do. Perhaps some fear that abortion clinics are women's only protection from deadly pregnancies-gone-wrong. But with the other ways of treating dangerous pregancies so widely available now, probably not all do. Perhaps, therefore, some are really in tune with Margaret Sanger's anti-poor-people polemics of the early 20th Century. Sanger was known for her racial theories, which should be republicized so women considering abortion will know whose idea it originally was to encourage such a grim "choice". Meanwhile, we need to keep putting successful independent pregnant women in the public eye. Thank you, Suzy B., for what you're doing. Re: Re: Re: NARAL Goes Back to Its Hippie Roots?
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Serena
on Mon 17 Nov 2008 01:05 PM EST | Permanent Link
Excuse me; the long post on SUnday was mine.
Re: NARAL Goes Back to Its Hippie Roots?
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Anonymous
on Sat 15 Nov 2008 01:15 AM EST | Permanent Link
Take this from someone that actually enjoys listening to spoken word poetry, this is dang near confusing. it's a bad sign when you can't even make an emotional appeal to your position, let alone a logical one. But hey, it's logorrhea with a beat you can dance to!
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