The progressive left continually tries to assert that the term “woke” is an innocent term, simply slang for one becoming aware of something in general. But the word has been hijacked by the left, now being used as a euphemism. The new meaning is that virtually everything has racial underpinnings.
A local paper columnist didn’t use the term “woke” in his recent column, but provided a perfect example of its new meaning by accusing Fl. Governor DeSantis of cruelty, hate and racism for describing “women seeking abortions as mostly women abandoned by the unborn child’s father (implying an unmarried mother).” He labeled that a “racism-tinged stereotype.”
In reality, there really are many woman seeking abortions who are not married. But these women are from every category of “race”, not just one. I frequently see them arriving at the Attleboro abortion clinic. One study showed that more than 2/3 of women who’ve had abortions didn’t want to. Some of the younger women are often crying in the back seat of the car. For many, it’s not really their choice. Instead, they feel they have no choice, having been pressured, or even coerced by boyfriends, parents and even grand-parents, to abort the “unborn child”, as the columnist acknowledged them to be.
Further, in an ironic and incredible statement of “projection”, he accused the pro-life movement of being “cruel to women physically, emotionally and morally.” Actually, Pregnancy Resource Centers, presently under a funded attack by the state legislature, regularly help post-abortion women with those very same and serious issues. After women are “escorted” by orange-vested volunteers to the Attleboro abortion clinic, and the abortion has been completed, no serious follow-up is conducted regarding the woman’s mental, emotional and physical health.
For many women, it’s a lifelong painful and haunting memory. In the book, “The Story of Abortion in America”, Gwendolyn Brooks, first African American winner of the poetry Pulitzer Prize for her 1945 poem “The Mother”, was quoted as writing that “’abortions will not let you forget.” She was further quoted as having “heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children.”
A local paper columnist didn’t use the term “woke” in his recent column, but provided a perfect example of its new meaning by accusing Fl. Governor DeSantis of cruelty, hate and racism for describing “women seeking abortions as mostly women abandoned by the unborn child’s father (implying an unmarried mother).” He labeled that a “racism-tinged stereotype.”
In reality, there really are many woman seeking abortions who are not married. But these women are from every category of “race”, not just one. I frequently see them arriving at the Attleboro abortion clinic. One study showed that more than 2/3 of women who’ve had abortions didn’t want to. Some of the younger women are often crying in the back seat of the car. For many, it’s not really their choice. Instead, they feel they have no choice, having been pressured, or even coerced by boyfriends, parents and even grand-parents, to abort the “unborn child”, as the columnist acknowledged them to be.
Further, in an ironic and incredible statement of “projection”, he accused the pro-life movement of being “cruel to women physically, emotionally and morally.” Actually, Pregnancy Resource Centers, presently under a funded attack by the state legislature, regularly help post-abortion women with those very same and serious issues. After women are “escorted” by orange-vested volunteers to the Attleboro abortion clinic, and the abortion has been completed, no serious follow-up is conducted regarding the woman’s mental, emotional and physical health.
For many women, it’s a lifelong painful and haunting memory. In the book, “The Story of Abortion in America”, Gwendolyn Brooks, first African American winner of the poetry Pulitzer Prize for her 1945 poem “The Mother”, was quoted as writing that “’abortions will not let you forget.” She was further quoted as having “heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children.”