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Humor site revealing of pro-abortion culture

Texts From Last Night is a fairly recent web phenomenon. It’s a simple idea, but it was destined for hilarity: have people send in text messages and publish them on the web, sorted by area code. Watch the disconnected fragments of debauchery roll in.

Of course, the site is a catalog of binge drinking, hangovers, and casual sexual encounters, all in one or two-sentence snippets. It’s sometimes funny, but almost always troubling. If the picture it paints of college students in America is at all accurate, it’s a wonder any of them survive college, let alone graduate. The endless cycle of getting fall-down drunk, doing stupid and sometimes funny things, waking up with a stranger, completing a “walk of shame,” cramming for a test, and repeating, might sound funny on the Internet, but can lead to unexpected encounters with reality. Getting arrested, flunking out, overdoses, alcohol poisoning, injury, STDs… These are all outcomes sometimes described in Texts From Last Night.

Another outcome? Abortion.

You can search the site by keyword. Here are some examples of actual texts people have sent containing this word:

“So I decided to start saving money for my abortion in a tomato sauce jar because it says ‘Prego.’ I know I thought it was f***ing genius!”

“they had a keg party to fund her abortion.”

“Just paid for that girls abortion on my dad’s black card. I feel like P-Diddy.”

“Only mom could turn an abortion day into a shopping day”

What does this tell us about the attitudes some young people have about abortion?

Granted, these few texts are not necessarily representative of an entire generation. But this is just a sampling. There are four pages of texts containing the word, and they’re all along the same lines as these. And these are just the few random kids who know about the site, decide to submit a text, and have theirs chosen. Each one of these text messages could represent the attitude of thousands of kids.

A lot of “pro-choice” people like to say, “Look, I think women should have a choice, but I don’t think it should be used as a form of birth control.” How many times have you heard that? Personally, at least a hundred.

If it’s not a form of birth control, then what is it exactly?

To the young person living in the age of the hook-up and embracing casual sex as a way of life, abortion is a matter of course. It has to be, in order for them to continue with the lifestyle they enjoy. These values are probably passed down from their parents in a lot of cases. Note two examples above: the young lady whose mom takes her shopping after an abortion, and the young man whose dad lends his credit card to pay for a girl’s abortion.

Here are some more examples from the site:

“This girl I work with, who is 18 btw, invited me to her baby shower. Do they sell abortions in gift certificate form?”

I’ve encountered this a lot, and you may have too. Someone hears a teenager is having a baby, and they act outraged and disgusted that she wasn’t encouraged or coerced into having an abortion.

“My financial advisor filed my girlfriend’s abortion under ‘investments’ so my wife wouldn’t find out”

There are so many things wrong with this I don’t know where to start. Obviously this was not the text of a college-age person, but someone more than old enough to know better. This text proves a point I am always nagging you about, readers: abortion is liberating for men, not women. This way he gets rid of his little problem and still has his mistress on the side. If he can talk a woman into it, abortion is the cheating man’s best friend.

“just took my abortion antibiotic with my martini. i no longer wonder how i got into this situation.”

The appropriate reaction to reading this is dismay.

“so exactly what does one wear to an abortion clinic?”

People who pray and protest outside clinics will tell you they can usually tell the women coming in for an abortion because they’re wearing sweats or yoga pants. Some of them will have a pillow in the car. They often leave crying. The casual tone of this text might belie a deep sadness, or it might not. Either way is tragic.

“Spending my graduation money on an abortion. Welcome to the real world.”

Sadly, yes.

“I feel like abortions should bother me more”

You know, I feel like they should bother her more, too. The plural is heartwarming, isn’t it?

Here are a few more just for good measure:

“They refer to his house as ‘the abortion clinic’. Cant wait.”

“so hey instead of everyone buying me a birthday present can everyone just pitch in for my abortion?”

“when you get a chance can you look up ‘free abortion clinic’ for me? cuz i dont think i’ll be lucky enough for a second miscarriage.”

This girl’s gonna be disappointed. If she wants anything free, she’ll need to go to a pregnancy resource center.

“have you seen my purse? i cant find it and my ipod is in there and that s**t totally cost more than my abortion.”

Our society has more or less accepted that college is the right time to make terrible decisions and do things you’ll regret later. But when ignorance or dismissal of the sanctity of human life has become this pervasive, it’s safe to say we’ve gone too far in participating in or subsidizing the moral corruption of young adults.

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Kristen Walker makes people mad on the Internet and sometimes tweets.

   
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  • Elisabeth

    I have heard talk like that.  I was at Valleyfair (an amusement park in Minnesota)  I heard a group of giggling little 15-17 year old girls behind me comparing their abortions.  Seriously, you would think they were talking about their prom dresses.  They were mocking a classmate that was crying after hers, and they said ” If you feel bad, you just go buy a teddy bear, and bury it”   and the other girl said “well, should you buy pink or blue?”  and the other girl said, “just buy one of each”  I had my 11 year old with me,  she did not hear them.  It is really hard to keep my daughter from turning out like those kind of girls in today’s world.

    • http://twitter.com/MarauderTheSN MarauderTheSlashNymp

      I live in MN too, though I haven’t been to Valleyfair since maybe the late 90s – wow, that is depressing as heck. The fact that they were making fun of a girl for being upset about her abortion shows that they have an inner need to deny the concept that abortion can be painful. My guess is there’s a lot of denial and shutting-off of feelings going on there.

    • http://twitter.com/prolifepagans Pro Life Pagans

      Unfortunately Planned Parenthood has been able to both encourage and take advantage of the attitude of those “giggling 15-17 year old girls” and has recruited them for their dirty work, 
      http://www.lifenews.com/2011/12/15/planned-parenthood-hiring-14-year-old-kids-to-push-sex-ed/  Live Action has also done a report where there were 16 women in Minnesota who were on their 10th or more abortion last year, which I’ve commented on in my own blog, 
      http://roberttreat.blogspot.com/2011/08/abortion-as-birth-control.html 

      • Anonymous

        I used to be a sex educator for Planned Parenthood. We did NOT encourage teenagers to have sex or to break the law. We encouraged them not to become pregnant and not to get sexually transmitted diseases. I read such rampant, ridiculous lies about Planned Parenthood in “pro-life” literature. It is hard to believe anything you say because most of what you say I know for a fact to be inaccurate. If you believe abortion is wrong, that is fine, that is your view. But you lose credibiltiy–therefore the ability to be persuasive–when you consistently promote falsehoods. If your position stood on its own you wouldn’t have to make this stuff up.

        • Ilfuoconecessario

          “ If
          you believe abortion is wrong, that is fine, that is your view.”

          You
          equivocated between views about what’s right or wrong and what really is right
          or wrong. Just because a good  tyrant, or Herod, a good Nazi thinks that
          genocide, or abortion, is right, that’s doesn’t mean it is.

          It could’nt
          exist views about views! It would be a hall of mirrors with nothing to reflect!

          So there
          are views about facts, but “You should not abort” is not a view about facts,
          about wether you will kill a newconceived or not. So values –better, I would
          say truths – can’t be mere views. Cultures, indeed, don’t differ completely
          about truths, even if you intend only views. There is a great amount of
          agreement about truths, or, at least, never total disagreement. The background
          of languages involves the same concepts. It’s the same for customs and habits:
          you will find the same values, and similar morals beneath different mores.
          Unless you beneath yourself want defend ideology. Anyway, lies are like the
          vampire adherent to history, history lifts up and walks, so does the vampire,
          e.g., moral relativism. Good news is that the monster will not succeed, and the
          Lady of the Apocalypse, with the Infant, Jesus, will be saved by the faith of
          believers, of Christians, alleluia!

  • Chlordian Gortex

    The entire motive behind “humor” like that is a bizarre mix of shock value & nothing matters with a peppering of “I’m super impressed with myself.”  It’s lame and I can almost picture the type of person who would regularly wear one of those t-shirts to  hipster parties in Austin. Ugh. 

  • Lucifer

    Kill’em, kill them all and let the devil have them….

    • Jason Fairfield

      There is always a chance for mercy, a gift that is always offered by God to those that sin.  As a rule, it seems many young people have to endure the consequences of their actions before they turn back to God, but one hopes that they finally do.

    • HKateD

      Lucifer,
      I think the problem is that “the devil” already has them.  Pray that they might turn to God and repent before they no longer have the chance to do this for themselves. 

  • http://tonylayne.blogspot.com/ Anthony S. Layne

    Tragedy = pity + terror. Have we really produced a culture so full of sociopathic emptiness?

    (BTW, Kristen, those are area codes, not zip codes.)

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  • Brendan Dudley

    I think it is extremely important to pray for the Texts From Last Night creators. One of the founders was a classmate of mine at a Catholic high school. I knew him well enough back then to know that he could certainly be living a far more self-reflective, self-giving, and holy life if he would once again open himself to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. I pray that he will use his gifts & talents for a truly productive enterprise instead of spending time promoting the utilitarian attitudes and behaviors revealed by the texts listed in the article. It is quite tragic to see so many young people abandon any personal responsibility concerning love, sexuality, relationships, the value of life, etc. I certainly hope that everyone will continue living and preaching the truth & beauty of a life focused on loving others instead of using others.

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  • Anonymous

    The dismissal of human life as a consequence of sex makes us no better than male African lions, who kill the nursing cubs when they take over a pride so the females will go into heat.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rhoslyn Rhoslyn Thomas

    This is extremely sad, but is really quite an accurate of a lot of young people’s attitude to abortion, I think. One person that I was debating with about abortion was perplexed as to what I found disgusting in the fact that 95% of unborn children with Down’s Syndrome are aborted in the UK. He actually answered me, “And that’s a bad thing?”. Saying that, there are some young people who don’t know how abortion is used as a form of birth control. They genuinely believe all the rubbish that unborn children are just “a ball of cells” but that abortion is sometimes a necessary evil and is rarely used. I wish that were the case! At least then we’d be fighting a battle on a much smaller scale. But, 220,000 abortions a year in the UK alone is not rare in my book.  
    The reality is that young people have been taught that they can sleep with people they don’t even like, let alone love, and not face the consequences of their actions. I don’t think that trying to force abstinence on young people is the answer. I think that teaching them to have some self-respect is a step in the right direction though. Young girls especially just don’t feel like they can say no, especially if they’re friends are all doing it. They should be taught that they are worth more than a one-night-stand with a man who will barely give you the time of day the next time you see him. I see it all the time in university and it’s very very sad. 

  • Bob Rodriguez, Dallas TX area

    Very funny site.  When my wife and I terminated one of our pregnancies we wanted to keep the remnants in a jar of liquid for Halloween.  Doc said WTF?