From Glibberal comes this gem.
Aaron Gouveia and his wife were trying to have a child, but when his wife was 16 weeks pregnant, they discovered that their fetus had severe abnormalities which would result in it being stillborn. As if this wasn’t bad enough, when the couple drove to an abortion clinic to terminate the pregnancy, they had to deal with a couple of anti-choice assholes standing outside, screaming that Ms. Gouvieia was murdering her baby and was going to go to hell. Rather than just let them get away with this, Mr. Gouveia decided to let them know that they are, in fact, assholes, and to film himself doing so.
Good for that guy!
Of course the lady has no idea of the particular circumstances of anyone’s life that might lead them to an abortion clinic. The patriarchal religious-fundamentalist conservative culture warriors LOVE to “protect the unborn” exactly BECAUSE there are no circumstances to know (and not out of any particular love of babies). These culture warriors HATE circumstances, and anyone who can speak up for themselves, because they might want to choose things the fundamentalists disagree with. That’s why, instead of helping at-risk youth like the man suggests, she’s there imposing her worldview on “those who cannot speak for themselves.” The unborn are like circumstance-less blank slates on which the fundamentalists can easily project their worldview, defining them as sacred beings with souls in need of righteous protection. Of course, if righteous protection has to take the form of patronizing, patriarchal oppression of women, well then so be it.
In other words, what’s really going on in situations like in the video, is that misogynist, male-supremacist oppression is masquerading as the righteous protection of the innocent, giving it a sacred aura of legitimacy such that the lady in the video unknowingly perpetuates this oppression, mistakenly thinking she is doing something good. It’s not really her fault, and so I’m glad the guy is not unduly hard on her; she’s just a victim of the insidious ideology.