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Instagram Influencer Triggers Fanbase with Pro-Life Message
I have a few guilty pleasures, and this is one: I love following young, skinny and tanned mothers absolutely killing it on Instagram. They’re usually Mormon with a gaggle of kids, and their messages are always filled with sunshine and light. They have a wide fanbase, a cross-section of women from every economic, political and social perspectives and the key to their success is not offending any cross-section of fans.
Ellen Fisher is a vegan, natural mother homeschooling in Hawaii, pregnant with her third baby. She posts about food, her kids, her idyllic lifestyle in paradise. And this week, she tossed a match into a powderkeg with this pro-life message:
It’s hardly explosive content; Fisher is merely stating scientific facts about fetal development and expressing her awe about the humanity of her tiny baby in the womb. And for that, her page exploded with outraged fans aghast that she might possibly value her unborn baby as a human being, that she may dare hold a view on abortion and the intrinsic value of life unlike theirs.
But while there has been an avalanche of vitriol and reportedly, death threats, so too has there been an outpouring of love and support from pro-life Americans. Fisher took a risk in stating her beliefs publicly, risking alienating a fanbase over the most divisive issue in American culture and politics. This isn’t just about angering people; Fisher took a real gamble stating her unpopular opinion (in pop culture, at least) when her popularity and income is derived from keeping her fans happy. It’s encouraging to see someone take a stand, against all of their better interests, to acknowledge what is right. And so, the least pro-life Americans can do is lend their support to her in turn, as they’ve already started doing in the comments on this latest post.
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Seems bizarre that followers of a woman who is obviously religious and values her children so highly would be surprised to find out she’s pro-life. I wonder if maybe most of the vitriol spewers weren’t actually her followers.
What a beautiful message. Thank you for posting it.
When I go to Mass and I see young families with their children, whether it is one child, or more I just think that mom and dad are generous. That gives me hope, and for that I’m grateful.
As liberal a company as General Electric became under CEO Jeffrey Imhelt, the irony on the abortion front was it was products like the company’s 3-D imaging sonogram software that so sharpened what could be observed in the womb it really made it harder for abortion rights backers to deny what’s in there at 10-15 weeks isn’t a baby, and we’re now almost two decades down the line from those machines coming out. It was far easier to make the case for things like second trimester abortions when the best sonograms could do were murky 2-D images of something, where doctors had to point out specific parts of the fetus to the parent(s).
So it isn’t about “right to choose” after all.
She’ll rue the day she crossed the Party of Science.
This is a genuine shock.
You forgot the irony quotes. FIFY
So…unquestioned medical facts that every MD knows to be true are cause for vitriol from the Left. I’m not surprised. The Left never lets the facts get in the way of their political positions.
That is the loonie part, isn’t it? She didn’t add “…and killing this little person inside of me would be a horrible sin…” let alone “if you’ve every had an abortion, you murdered a little person just like this one.” She literally stated facts.
The left is anti-science. Simple.
They make their case for global warming not with data but with contemptuous 16 year old girls. They falsify and then ignore science, and then emphasize the emotional guilt trip of the well-off.
What’s weird is that to be pro-choice, you have to ignore the science AND the emotional guilt trip. Not so easy to do…
Environmentalism is a pagan death cult. Really a pagan death religion. Attack the core belief of any religion and you will get pushback from true believers. They burn heretics, don’t they? Although with the carbon footprint of burning, these death cultists will likely bring back pressing heretics to death (with rocks from good ol’ Mother Gaia), or putting them in weighted sacks and casting them into the sea or lake.
I bet she won’t.
Glad to see the young lady is both about the life of love & mothering, & about speaking up about what life really means–what it is to love a living, embodied being that will one day do the same in turn.
We should be happy to stan her! It’s good to be human!
I too wondered if the vitriolic comments came from people who came there solely to express their vitriol.
The typical Leftist response to the challenge of completely incongruous thinking: “Hold my beer…”
Remember when the RU-486 “Morning After” pill was developed in France? Abortion supporters loved that, and loved Bill Clinton making it legal for import. In their minds, people who opposed it were the anti-science Luddites.
But when it comes to things like 3-D sonogram scanners or other pre- and post-natal medical advances that make second trimester babies viable outside the womb, that’s where the abortion backers want to pretend it’s still 1973, and all medical technology is frozen in amber from that date forward. (which is standard on the left, where scientific advances that go against their political beliefs suddenly make their love of effing science disappear, whether it’s abortion, genetic crop manipulation, or horrizontal fracking).