WorldNetDaily's Managing Editor, David Kupelian is the author of the forthcoming book, "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom". In Kupelian's latest WorldNetDaily column, "How lying marketers sold Roe v. Wade to America", he uses interviews and confessions of Dr. Nathanson and other research to uncover some sickening realities of the pro-abortion movement. Kupelian writes:
"Women must have control over their own bodies."
"Safe and legal abortion is every woman's right."
"Who decides? You decide!"
"Abortion is a personal decision between a woman and her doctor."
"Who will make this most personal decision of a woman's life? Will women decide, or will the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington?"
"Freedom of choice – a basic American right."
In one of the most successful marketing campaigns in modern political history, the "abortion rights movement" – with all of its emotionally compelling catch-phrases and powerful political slogans – has succeeded in turning what once was a heinous crime into a fiercely defended constitutional right.
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Although polls consistently show a clear majority of Americans disapprove of unfettered abortion-on-demand, the movement's well-crafted, almost magical slogans – appealing to Americans' deeply rooted inclination toward tolerance, privacy and individual rights – have provided the abortion camp a powerful rhetorical arsenal with which to fight off efforts to reverse Roe, which struck down all state laws outlawing abortion.
In marketing wars, the party that frames the terms of the debate almost always wins. And the early abortion marketers brilliantly succeeded in doing exactly that – diverting attention away from the core issues of exactly what abortion does to both the unborn child and the mother, and focusing the debate instead on a newly created issue: "choice." No longer was the morality of killing the unborn at issue, but rather, "who decides."
Safe to say, this tactic has worked with remarkable delusion. In an interview, Dr. Nathanson spoke of the forming of NARAL upon distorted truths:
"We sat down and plotted out the organization now known as NARAL. With Betty Friedan, we set up this organization and began working on the strategy.
We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal, enlightened, sophisticated one, knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60 percent of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000, but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1 million. "
In much of his interview, he speaks with gut-wrenching detail on the actual steps in various abortion procedures. Efforts to keep Dr. Nathanson quiet and discredit his testimonies began the moment he released the film "
The Silent Scream", based on video footage of abortions as they take place. The pro-choice opposition has never desired for people to know the truth.
We cannot continue to allow people to flippantly dress up the lie as the truth. The expose is long overdue.
Now let's see how this goes ignored by the mainstream. I don't see this as a "holier-than-thou", because I used to believe abortion was okay. I could never stare at a picture of a fetus though. The first time I saw a picture of the results of an abortion on the fetus I was changed forever. It didn't take long afterward for me to realize that this was a abominable procedure.
Thanks for truth Ambra.