# Odd (and really long) Pro-Life E-mail

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**Created:** [September 26, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402 "2008-09-26T22:48:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/1 "2008-09-26T22:48:41Z")

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I received an odd pro-life e-mail this morning. It’s odd for several reasons, first because I have no idea who the person who sent it is or how they got my name and second because the story of an abortion that it tells is so horrifically different than any of the stories that I’ve heard before.

I’m working under the assumption that this could be someone who purposely sent the e-mail to me. While I’m not a very active pro-lifer, those who spend time with me could probably figure out pretty easily that I’m not a fan of abortion. Each morning at prayer (I live with a bunch of nuns) and on Sundays at Mass I include “all babies waiting to be born” as one of the petitions. There are a few members from the outside community that join us for morning prayer and a sizable group (100?) that join us for Sunday Mass, so anyone who attends would work out that I’m pro-life. My e-mail address isn’t horribly difficult to find if you’re looking for it. Also, I made a comment in a [recent thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10232844#post10232844) about pro-life picketers. My e-mail address is available on the dope for whoever wants it.

Those are the two ways I can think up that someone might link my e-mail address to me being pro-life. Here’s the e-mail with the person’s name and e-mail addresses taken out (don’t feel bad about not reading it all, I didn’t at first), let me know what you think of it. What would you do with it?

> [@](#):
>
> From: **[jesusynamedeleted@gmail.com](mailto:jesusynamedeleted@gmail.com)**
> 
> Sent: Thu 9/25/2008 11:33 PM
> 
> To: **MissMossie**  
> Cc:   
> Subject: Please Shepherd Us An open letter to Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop, Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap and to ALL Shepherds.
> 
> Papa, Planned Parenthood has made of me a murderess.
> 
> Please Shepherd Us An open letter to Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop,  
> Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap and to ALL Shepherds.  
> Please, please Shepherd Us Away from Abortion If You will not shepherd  
> us, no one will. Jesus said that he would not leave us orphans. We  
> call you Papa. We call you Father. We call you Pastor. Please shepherd  
> us. Please do not leave us orphans.
> 
> please reply to _name_ **[jesusynamedeleted@yahoo.com](mailto:jesusynamedeleted@yahoo.com)**
> 
> Holy See Vatican  
> Telephone: +39-06-698.921  
> Telefax: +39-06-698.85178  
> E-mail: accreditamenti@pressva.va
> 
> Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Vatican  
> Telephone: +39-06-698.83197  
> Telefax: +39-06-698.85373  
> E-mail: pccs@pccs.va
> 
> Vatican Communication Centre  
> Telephone: +39-06-698.85233/85467  
> Telefax: +39-06-698.85192  
> E-mail: ctv@ctv.va
> 
> The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops  
> Dioceses by States  
> [http://www.usccb.org/state.shtml](http://www.usccb.org/state.shtml)
> 
> Archdiocese of Denver  
> Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, OFMCap  
> Catholic Pastoral Center  
> 1300 S. Steele Street  
> Denver, CO 80210-2599  
> [http://www.archden.org/](http://www.archden.org/)
> 
> National Right to Life  
> [http://www.nrlc.org/press\_releases\_new/Release052804.html](http://www.nrlc.org/press_releases_new/Release052804.html)
> 
> Click to find the Truth about Voting Records of US Senators and US  
> Congressman  
> [http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/dbq/officials/](http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/dbq/officials/)  
> Dear Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, OFMCap,
> 
> This is a personal plea to pray that abortion end. A personal plea that  
> you preach against abortion. A personal plea that you will Shepherd Us.  
> I called your assistant and told her my name. I beg you not to  
> mention my name because of my shame of having an abortion.
> 
> My horrifying experience. My mother was a good woman and I was an  
> impressionable thirteen-year-old. I was tall and beautiful and quietly  
> elegant for my age, many thought that I was in college. When I was  
> thirteen years old, a man, handsome, began to date me. My mother did  
> not know. I foolishly fell in love. Also, I foolishly did not tell my  
> mother. I was a ‘modern’ girl. I became pregnant and life became very  
> complicated. When I was nine months pregnant, my thirty-year-old  
> ‘fiance’ took me across state lines. He said that he was taking me to a  
> physician for the ‘birth’ of my (his) baby. He never used the word  
> abortion. With a smile, he said that the baby would be fine. He took  
> me to an abortionist.
> 
> That man turned me into a murderess. I later learned that he had gotten  
> many girls pregnant and had taken them to the same abortion clinic.
> 
> In the Planned Parent Hood clinic a doctor pushed a long needle into my  
> expanded stomach. He injected something into me. I felt my child kick  
> until I thought that my heart would burst. Then my child began to  
> convulse violently, so violently that my hand vibrated when I rested it  
> on my belly. I later learned that the doctor injected a massive dose of  
> concentrated saltwater into my child. A horrifying death.
> 
> Moments later they injected me with something. I went into labor before  
> the salt injection killed my baby. Then I gave birth to a screaming  
> baby boy. Not a crying baby. A scream of terror. I later learned that  
> the salt was burning, destroying, shriveling the insides of my baby boy.
> 
> With his back to me, the physician said, “Nurse. Go. Wheel her from  
> here quickly, out, out quickly.”
> 
> The doctor did not know that the nurse had stepped from the room.
> 
> I again looked down between my legs to see my baby boy still convulsing,  
> vibrating, screaming.
> 
> The physician turned and shouted, “Nurse. Where are you? I said wheel  
> her from here.”
> 
> The nurse walked in. The physician again turned his back to me.  
> Then the nurse broke her shoe or twisted her ankle and cursed. This  
> delay let me see the full horror of abortion.
> 
> The butcher, the best name for the physician, had his back to me. I  
> watched as he placed my beautiful baby boy into a clear plastic vat.  
> Then he instantly clamped a clear plastic lid on the vat and flipped a  
> switch. He did not know that I was still watching. I heard a whirr  
> like a food-processor. Then I saw my baby boy’s severed fingers and  
> toes and blood stick to the insides of the clear plastic vat. I  
> screamed, fingers and toes that I had wanted to kiss. Fingers and toes  
> that I had wanted to feel touching my face.
> 
> At my scream the doctor turned and growled, “Nurse. Now see what you  
> have done. She has seen what we do and how we do it.”
> 
> I could not stop screaming. I was in the very mouth of hell.  
> Sacrifices to Satan. The physician had ground my live baby into mush  
> and dismembered fingers and toes.
> 
> As I screamed, he put a cloth with something smelly over my mouth. My  
> eyes closed but not before I saw him open the lid. I saw him spray  
> water to wash away the fingers and toes and the bloody, red mush. He  
> washed my baby boy into the sewer.
> 
> I woke up in a hospital. A young physician sat beside me and whispered,  
> “Tell everyone, everyone what Planned Parenthood did to you.”
> 
> I wept and said, “They ground my live baby into mush. I am a murderess.”
> 
> He whispered, “I know that they murdered your baby. You are too young.  
> You could not have known what they would do to you. You could not  
> have even known what an abortion is. The guilt is not yours. Now  
> listen to me.”
> 
> ```
> He paused and took a deep breath, " The abortion caused you to
> 
> ```
> 
> bleed. When the salt solution caused the baby to convulse, the baby’s  
> kicks tore your uterus. Your family doctor told me that he had planned  
> a caesarean section for you. Because excessive bleeding after a birth  
> runs in your family tree. The abortionist, the butcher, did not care.  
> The courts protect them from suit and criminal prosecution and criminal  
> negligence. You bled so badly that we had to remove your uterus. You  
> will never be able to have children. Also, the salt water that they  
> injected into the baby was contaminated. It flowed out of the baby and  
> into your torn uterus. You have an infection in your kidneys and  
> intestines. We may have to remove your kidneys and some length of  
> intestines."
> 
> Many days later I again woke up from surgery. The same young surgeon  
> said, “We had to remove both of your kidneys and most of your small  
> intestines. You will be on dialysis the rest of your life.”
> 
> Then he whispered, “Everything that is now covered will be uncovered,  
> and everything now hidden will be made clear. What I say to you in the  
> dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the  
> rooftops.” (I later found this in Matt. 10:26-27)
> 
> I must have looked confused.
> 
> He whispered, “Tell everyone what abortion is. Tell everyone what  
> abortion has done to you. Tell everyone the horror of the dismembered  
> fingers and toes that you had wanted to kiss.”
> 
> Now years later I am withering away. Many physicians have told me that  
> I will live for a few more months. A simple, common, every day,  
> caesarian-section birth could have saved my baby and me. I find that I  
> do not blame my ‘fiance’ or the abortionist. I blame the politicians  
> who vote for abortion. They vote for abortion for one reason, to take  
> political contributions, in layman terms, bribes. Political  
> contributions from thousands and thousands of abortionists. I have sent  
> letter after letter to these monsters to vote against abortion. Their  
> greed overwhelms their reason and compassion.
> 
> That young surgeon told me to tell everyone. So I am telling you.  
> Please Shepherd Us. Please tell everyone what abortion is and what it  
> does to women and children.
> 
> Please Shepherd Us. If You will not shepherd us, no one will. Please.  
> Jesus promised that he would not leave us orphans. Please. We call  
> you Father, Pastor, Papa. Please do not leave us orphans. Please  
> Shepherd Us.  
> The truth is that I would never have had to see the murder of my baby if  
> politicians had not voted for abortion.
> 
> So I shout from the roof top the political truth and expose the  
> political lies. I am only eighteen years old, but my eyes are open to  
> the political lies.
> 
> McCain has a 100% voting record against abortion. McCain has a 100%  
> pro-life voting record. Governor Sarah Palin is pro-life and Christian.  
> Governor Palin loves her fifth child, a down-syndrom child, which  
> democrats as a group want to be aborted.
> 
> Click to leave a message for McCain  
> [http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm](http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm)
> 
> Representative Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic Speaker of the House of  
> Representatives in Washington, D.C.. I have sent her hundreds of  
> letters. Representative Pelosi claims to be a Catholic, a devout  
> Catholic, yet she constantly votes for abortion.
> 
> Senator Harry Reid is the Democrat’s leader of the Senate in Washington,  
> D.C. I have also sent him hundreds of letters.
> 
> Both Democrat Pelosi and Democrat Reid ignore me. The only thing that  
> they will listen to is the voting booth.
> 
> Click to find the Truth about Voting Records of US Senators and US  
> Congressman  
> [http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/dbq/officials/](http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/dbq/officials/)
> 
> The truth is found in the above link.  
> Obama and Biden are both radical pro-abortionists. Both vote for  
> partial birth abortion. Obama voted that we are not allowed to save  
> children, aborted, yet still alive. Obama voted that aborted yet still  
> alive children must be made to die through neglect.
> 
> Click the above link to find the truth.
> 
> Biden claims to be a Catholic yet he has a 100% record of voting for  
> abortion. Abortion is truly an abomination.
> 
> Again, Clink the above link to find the truth.
> 
> Both Democrat Pelosi and Democrat Reid have told all the other  
> democratic representatives and other democratic senators to campaign  
> LYING. Lying that they are against abortion. But in reality Democrat  
> Pelosi and Democrat Reid have also told democrats to VOTE FOR ABORTION.  
> This way they can deceive Christians.  
> Thus, the democratic party can continue to take dollar contributions  
> from abortionists. Democrats have consistently voted for abortion in  
> the past many years. Democrat political leadership has continued to  
> expand the ‘slaughter house abortion clinics.’
> 
> Click to find the Truth about Voting Records of US Senators and US  
> Congressman  
> [http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/dbq/officials/](http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/dbq/officials/)
> 
> I beg you, Please Shepherd Us. All I can see every day, every second of  
> every day are those dismembered toes and fingers. Toes and fingers on a  
> beautiful baby boy that I had wanted to kiss.
> 
> I sit here, angry, on dialysis, unable to have children, unable to  
> digest normal food. I am withering away into skin and bones, all  
> because of politicians voting for abortion. Yes, many physicians have  
> told me that I will live for a few more months.
> 
> So I beg you, Please Shepherd Us. Please Shepherd Us. Before my eyes,  
> awake and asleep, every second of every day are those dismembered toes  
> and fingers that I so wanted to love, to kiss.
> 
> Soon in Heaven, I will kiss them. Soon in Heaven I will hug my baby boy.
> 
> Please, please, please Shepherd us. Send this to other Shepherds.  
> Please Shepherd us.

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**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/2 "2008-09-26T23:02:23Z")

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Well, that’s…fucked up. I’m trying to imagine why someone would have written that. I mean, no one is actually going to believe that story…could it be some kind of satire?

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**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/3 "2008-09-26T23:10:37Z")

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I’d do what I do with all unwanted email spam (as colourful as this, or not) - DELETE.

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**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/4 "2008-09-26T23:12:09Z")

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I don’t have words. I shouldn’t have read that. While I understand it’s not true, it really upset me.

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/5 "2008-09-26T23:15:31Z")

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CRAP! I was trying to start a new thread. Sorry.

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/6 "2008-09-26T23:17:15Z")

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I had a woman tell me she didn’t want to euthanize her cat (who was dying from hepatic lipidosis) because she didn’t want the doctor to inject the cat’s belly with salt water. She was a crazy person, and she was a Jehovah’s Witness. Not that the two are related.

But hearing this, it makes me wonder if it’s an uneducated belief of the uneducated religious right-type folks. Stupid is as stupid does. I kinda hope the person who wrote this really hasn’t reproduced.

Anyone who believes even a trickle of this story is an idiot. If I had a way to spam that email address back, that’s what I would do.

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**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/7 "2008-09-26T23:24:25Z")

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I know this isn’t real; it can’t be. I certainly have more faith in Planned Parenthood than that.

Ugh. People make me sick.

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**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/8 "2008-09-26T23:30:32Z")

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That email was sent to you by the producers of _Reefer Madness_.:rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/9 "2008-09-26T23:32:15Z")

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I must say, I’m a little relieved that I’m not the only person reading this and thinking that it’s utterly bizarre.

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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/10 "2008-09-26T23:40:04Z")

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There is so much wrong with that I’m not sure where to begin, but Miss Mossie or someone else would want it I would attempt a point-by-point refutation/debunking. But only by request.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/11 "2008-09-26T23:40:36Z")

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Sounds like someone intercepted the script for Jack Chick’s latest tract! It’s about as realistic as its depiction of D&D giving you **real** Satanic powers, or Catholicism secretly being a cover for demon worshippers.

Seriously, the description is closer to the old illegal abortions done by shady providers, down to clamping a cloth over her nose and mouth to sedate her. Just switch out whatever instruments they used (coat hanger, forceps, whatever) for saline and you’re set, one smear story against Planned Parenthood and a fearful tale for people to scare troubled young women with.

That reminds me, I should send them another donation. They provide not just abortion related services, or even birth control related, but many people benefit from basic health care services provided on a sliding fee scale.

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**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/12 "2008-09-26T23:46:41Z")

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Ummmm. Wow.

Personally, I would probably delete the email and pretend I never saw it in the first place. Since you asked for an opinion, I read through instead… by the time I got to the baby in the food processor, I wasn’t sure if I should laugh or cry (in frustration at the idiocy of the story, not over our poor Victorian heroine’s suffering).

Outrageous fabrications like this aren’t going to help the pro-life cause - if a believer like you is going to raise an eyebrow, what do you think it’ll do for the fence-sitters? Delete it and move on.

Full disclosure: I’m pro-choice and have a background in bioethics. As **Broomstick** says, I won’t offer a point-by-point debunking unless asked to do so, but suffice to say I could spend days talking about what’s wrong in this story.

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**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/13 "2008-09-26T23:46:49Z")

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The description is clearly MADE UP. Regardless of ones views on abortion, it’s bullshit. Who would make a baby blender with a CLEAR LID? It would have been better with crackling Tesla coils and the doctor triumphantly shooting a basket through a nerf hoop with the fetal remains.:rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/14 "2008-09-26T23:49:50Z")

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> [@Broomstick](#):
>
> There is so much wrong with that I’m not sure where to begin, but Miss Mossie or someone else would want it I would attempt a point-by-point refutation/debunking. But only by request.

Don’t worry, I have a good idea of what’s wrong with it. I’m one of those crazy pro-lifers that likes to have an idea of what I’m against. This isn’t it\*.

So far, I’m thinking **Ferret Herder** is on the right track. It’s probably just a scare story. Next time I’m accidentally pregnant, I’ll think about it and not get an abortion.  
\*I actually am against scary delusions, which this would probably fall under, but that’s not what makes me a pro-life person.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/15 "2008-09-27T09:02:39Z")

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I’m frightfully pro-life & that sounded like some bizarre Jack Chick-level glurge.

Man, I miss the nice level-headed “Today, my mother killed me”-type stories.

Delete it & block the sender.

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**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/16 "2008-09-27T09:16:13Z")

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This is my favorite part: “At my scream the doctor turned and growled, “Nurse. Now see what you have done. She has seen what we do and how we do it.””

She knows about the [del]illuminati[/del] abortion conspiracy!! I don’t know why she wasn’t killed right there to keep her quiet.

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**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/17 "2008-09-27T10:29:44Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> Nurse. Now see what you have done. She has seen what we do and how we do it.

That line stood out to me too, but it was due more to familiarity than anything. Why is it that the nutcases who write these things always approach the task of writing dialogue as if they’ve never heard anyone speak English, and their only familiarity with the language comes from really bad 19th century fiction. It always sounds really stilted, and rarely contains any contractions (contractions, ha!).

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**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/18 "2008-09-27T10:29:55Z")

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I am perhaps most offended by the truly horrendous writing.

If this was written in 1834, it would be far more believable.

Damn, though, they hadn’t invented Baby Blenders yet.

:smack:

If one is going to write fiction for the purpose of converting others to Cause Du Jour, there are far better ways to go about it.

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**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/19 "2008-09-27T10:31:41Z")

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Get. Out. Of. My. Head! 😉

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**Author:** ![JaneSaintClair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JaneSaintClair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneSaintClair)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-and-really-long-pro-life-e-mail/465402/20 "2008-09-27T12:15:16Z")

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I am not at all surprised by this story. I have seen similar writings and we have had similar items taped to our doors and mailed to us, as well as some passed out to patients. We always thought that they were spin offs from the old “dead baby” jokes of the 70s and 80s.

I would also not underestimate the possibility that one of the crazier anti-choice individuals has found your e-mail (possibly through SD) and did in fact target you as an individual/potential convert to their ideas. Or at least someone who might be likely to forward the e-mail.

Do not forget that a segment (even though it’s a small one) of these people have shot doctors and bombed clinics. They have posted the home addresses of staff and physicians on the internet and encourage violence against them. They intentionally intimidate and make wild allegations-- it’s part of the overall routine. Many do in fact believe that the doctor’s that perform these services are doing the work of the anti-christ and that these doctors will be the ones to bring on the rapture.

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