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Written by Sean Albillar   
Feb 22, 2009 at 04:00 PM

Apparently my article has offended some people....
Now to be honest I do not have a copy of the article here to cite myself, but I felt that the sheer sarcasm I put into it should have been obvious.

For one, I called it the anti-child vs. anti-choice debate, which was supposed to show that this article was a mockery. After all, I made the connection that supporting PP was a vote for infanticide but perhaps discussing topics that have such a large population of extremist makes it difficult to tell the real ones from the satirist. For one it is sad that most of the horrible opinions I used are actually held by people out there. There really was a nurse who called Obama “a supporter of Infanticide. “ At the time I found that too funny not to use. Now it dawns on me how scary that really is. If you could not read through my sarcasm, then let it be known that I support Obama’s stance on supporting Planned Parenthood. You may have noticed many of my quotes from Obama were logical, and “pro-choice”. After all who can argue with “We know that five men don’t know better than women and their doctors what’s best for a woman’s health.”
Perhaps where I lost people was the the second half of the article. I was actually citing the laws in effect and what they meant. Hence the quoting of the Partial Birth Abortion Act and Supreme Court cases. The idea of bring up the history of the debate was to help you, the reader, form a better opinion on your own.
Perhaps changing tones mid article was a bad move, and lost a few people, but the point remained the same.
People take this stuff too seriously, and no matter how much you yell and scream, you still don’t have much of a say in it. Only politicians can force change.

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