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kirbygirl87Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:29:00 AM EST
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According to Salon.com, the New York City subway system was hit with a series of ads from the organization Abortion Changes You. According to Metro International, they "depict either a woman saying,
'I thought life would be the way it was before,' or a man saying, 'I often wonder if there was something I could have done to help her.'"
It is always irritating when ads mislead others when it comes to the after affects of abortion. Not every women is depressed and regrets her decisions. Not every boyfriend or husband wants to interfere with the women's decision. What if the women felt she made the right decision, and what if the partner supported the decision? Why do ads like these always depict the women as sad and questioning her judgement, do women do that often? Do we change our minds? Do we regret the decisions that we make? Not often. If a women has an abortion, she made up in her mind that it was the best decision for her at the time, yes, she's probably going to be a little sad, but that doesn't mean she is going to be depressed and needy, lets be real here.
Why can't society as a whole understand that abortion is not something people do on the spur of the moment? A lot of thought and consideration goes into that decision, and the women that make it are brave and intelligent. I think there needs to be more ads and PSA's that express women who are fine and happy, and that abortion was a decison they made in their life, not a regret and a detriment to their health.According to Tracy Clark- Flory, "None of this goes against the dominant pro-choice message, which is that women should be allowed to make their own reproductive choices based on what they feel is right for them. Women have different experiences of abortion and they should be allowed to make different decisions, too."
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by eriauna_stratton
This morning on my subway ride to work I looked up and saw one of the Abortion Changes You signs. I found your blog post just now -- glad you wrote about it. As soon as I saw the sign, I was trying to figure out what the real agenda was (sad that that's where my mind immediately went). I was wondering mostly if this was a thinly veiled anti-choice ad, and even though it says it's not, I still think it is. Like you said, it's operating at least partly on the assumption that women don't think carefully about their decision, about the consequences and effects and how they might feel afterwards. We just can't handle the decision ourselves! I feel like if you said to this campaign, "No no, actually, women DO make reasoned, careful decisions about abortion and its consequences," the campaign would not even be able to process that statement.
I think this ad is great, but, then again, I happen to like the message it brings with it.
I know, I have had them and still do.