Posted on 07/27/2004 11:41:16 AM PDT by DemWatch
Yesterday, a columnist for Human Events (unfortunately, it was not Ann Coulter) sent a link advertising the latest t-shirt for Planned Parenthood. The text of the brief advertisement follows:
“They have finally arrived! Planned Parenthood is proud to offer yet another t-shirt in our new social fashion line: "I Had an Abortion" fitted T-shirts are now available. These soft and comfortable fitted tees assert a powerful message in support of women's rights. Order yours for $15 each.”
The columnist who sent me that link also asked “what do you think about Planned Parenthood selling t-shirts that celebrate abortion?” Well, here’s what I think:
I think that the notion that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare” was never really the position of Al Gore, the Democrats, or Planned Parenthood.
I think that John Kerry is more honest than Al Gore. He admits that life begins at conception but still thinks that abortion should be legal. I think that John Kerry is a real humanitarian.
I think that America has been involved in an unjust war on the unborn for over thirty years.
I think that liberals are right when they say that a nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats those who cannot fend for themselves.
I think that I am lucky to have parents who are pro-life.
I think that many people who are “pro choice” are glad that they were born before 1973. Otherwise, they might not be able to make choices.
I think about the night that my wife spent six hours with a woman who was having her second miscarriage. While the young woman was passing the fetus and writhing in pain, she was thinking about the two abortions she had previously. She was also thinking that she would never be able to have a child now that she wanted one. She may have been thinking about how she had been misled by Planned Parenthood and the Women’s Resource Center.
I think about feminists on my campus who violate the civil liberties of groups who wish to provide comfort for those women who need love and support, not condemnation. I think that they need someone who will share the Truth with them after their lives have been destroyed by the lies of Planned Parenthood.
I think about campus feminists who pass out condoms and put Planned Parenthood advertisements in every woman’s bathroom stall on campus.
I think about my failed efforts to get campus feminists to debate the abortion issue on our campus. I think about a North Carolina chapter of Planned Parenthood that declined a campus debate on abortion saying, “It is our policy not to debate the abortion issue.”
I think about the early feminists, the true feminists, like Susan B. Anthony, who were steadfastly opposed to abortion.
I think about all of the abortion clinics in minority communities. I think that the next Martin Luther King was probably aborted years ago.
I think that Margaret Sanger would have been proud to see the genocide against African Americans that has been launched in the name of “choice.” I think that she would be proud to see that this genocide is sponsored, celebrated, and embraced by the Democratic Party.
I think that those in Congress who voted against the ban on partial birth abortion should wear t-shirts saying “I have the blood of innocent children on my hands.”
I think that Jesus Christ loved us before we were born. I also think that He was single for all of his 33 years.
I think about Clinton’s former Surgeon General, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, when she said that pro lifers “need to get over this love affair with the fetus.” I think that Planned Parenthood has a “love affair with abortion.”
I think about Planned Parenthood telling teenagers that having an abortion is just like picking a scab. I think about someone wearing a t-shirt that says “I just picked a scab” in order to convey a “powerful message in support of women's rights.”
I think about American churches paying for the abortions of church employees.
I think that Psalm 139 speaks with finality on the issue of abortion.
I think that abortion is the most important issue in the coming election. I think that is true every election year. In fact, think that abortion is the most important moral issue of our time.
When I hear college professors comparing George W. Bush to Adolph Hitler, I think about Hitler’s assertion that “the demand that defective people be kept from propagating equally defective offspring” represents “the most humane act of mankind.”
When I visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, I think about abortion.
I think that we are blessed to have George W. Bush as our president.
I think that by the time you read this article, our nation will see its 45,000,000th abortion since Roe v. Wade.
I think that pro-life groups should make their own t-shirts saying “your mother didn’t.”
NOW you know what I think.
What kind of person would be proud to declare they killed their own child?
As a marketing tool, it makes sense.
The whole point of the "abortion is just swell" meme is to get more women to have abortions. That makes more cold hard $$$ for Planned Parenthood, meshes with the religious views of the enviro-fringe, and furthers the dark goals that have never left the "pro-choice", nee eugenics, movement.
Kerry IS NOT honest. His conception line is the same as his disingenuous claim to being a hunter.
Check out the 2004 platform.
Kerry is "against" homosexual marriage but still has a 100% pro homosexual vote rating.
Kerry is a liar and not to be believed.
I don't think a fetus is a person, but it is human life in it's potential stage and it is absolutely wrong to destroy a potential human life. I partly understand what the so-called choice people mean when they say women should choose. BUT THE TIME FOR CHOICE IS BEFORE YOU DO THE DEED.
So every woman and every man for that matter has a choice. To cover up your indiscretion (and make no mistake that it is indiscretion because if you were happily married you wouldn't be throwing away a life you created in love) by having an abortion IS WRONG. IT'S MORALLY WRONG. Forget even about being a Christian. You get together with someone simply to bump uglies and you throw away a developing life, not to mention a parnter like a used kleenix. How is this right? Somebody please tell me?!
And I think we should give the unborn the same rights we give to those on death row. Namely, a defense lawyer and a 20 year appellate process.
Amen. Homosexual marriage is ridiculous. When God instituted marriage he never said two guys will leave their families and join together as one. If he did I sure missed that verse. That said, I think there are ways they can inherit there partner's property if one of them die, and nobody is stopping them from visiting the other in the hospital when the other is sick, or whatever "rights" they feel they don't have. Last I checked this was America and they have the same rights as every one else. Look, I don't care if they start their own church and hook up through that. Just don't come to any legitimate church and expect that church to go against God's law to marry two homosexuals.
No, it'd be a pick-up line.
Why don't they just give them away free with every abortion?
Can you imagine how many people would actually take them?
I doubt it would be very many..
Wow!
What a terrible, terrible, terrible war these babies fight!!!!!!!
God Bless Them!!!
"And what about those who regret and are sorry about thier decision to have an abortion?
Only God can judge......"
And for those who truly regret, only God can forgive.
And only if forgiveness is asked.
Forgiveness for such a grievious sin/error/mistake is beyond the capability of mere humankind, and humankind's forgiveness is actually useless to the soul of the one repenting.
Many Christians nowadays believe God sent them a good defence lawyer, Jesus Christ, to intercede on their behalf.
I believe that an omnipotent and omnscient God will someday judge my soul, and yours.
I know I plan to stand before God, silent, with a bowed head.
Whatyou do, is up to you.
You also know that she has effectively removed herself from the gene pool.
Damn few, I suspect. All of the women I ever knew who had had an abortion had deep emotional scars over it.
This might make me like, a prude or something, but I always had just enough respect for a woman not to put her in the position to need an abortion. That's just me though...
In the words of Bill Engvall: "That thing's got a shelf life."
YOU ARE NOT A PRUDE. YOU ARE A GENTLEMAN.
I thought abortion was about PRIVACY - who wants to read about your PRIVATE crimes on your chest?
When is that moment that they beome a person? I can't say exactly.
But I know it is before they are born.
I also know, that since every person is entitled to life, that the right to life is an unalienable right that can only be granted by God...that it is wrong for us individually or societally to make that choice for any innocent individual. In order to preserve the sanctity of life, when there is ANY chance that the developioong life is a person, we must error to the side of life. We are foolish, criminally foolish, as a society when we begin to error to the side of death and murder...and that is exactly what is happening.
...and there is a consequence, both individuallly and societally...and God will not long spare us from those stark consequences in my opinion.
I won't disagree with you. At some point a fetus does become a person in the womb as it is a developing life form. No we cannot know at what exact point this occurs so it is best to preserve this human life. Like I said I am pro-choice in the sense that I believe you make your choices before you decide to lay with a man/woman and create a life. Which is why I disagree with casual sex relationships. What on earth is casual about sex? It's an oxymoron. But this is a different discussion. Abortion is morally wrong in my view. Abortions deny millions of potential lives to come into being and represents a type of soul murder for not only the potential children but their mothers as well.
perhaps a more appropriate slogan for their T shirts would be,
I AM AN ABOMINATION
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