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STANEK: Abortion Pride!
The Illinois Leader ^ | 7/30/04 | Jill Stanek

Posted on 07/31/2004 12:27:56 PM PDT by wagglebee

OPINION -- Planned Parenthood has come up with a new way to promote abortion pride, by adding “soft and comfortable” t-shirts that say, “I had an abortion,” to its clothing line of “social fashion statements.”

The “I had an abortion” t-shirt is the most recent rah-rah attempt by abortion proponents to stir the mom-and-apple-pie, pro-abortion spirit in us. Whoops. Forget I said mom.

Add this to another great marketing concept developed by pro-aborts, the “Choice on Earth” Christmas cards, which strangely mark the occasion of a 15-year-old unmarried pregnant girl choosing to carry her baby to term 2,000 years ago.

Speaking of holidays, don’t forget everyone’s favorite, the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers, held every March 10, as I’m sure you already knew. Next year, don’t forget to order the NDAA Organizers Kit, which includes a sample sermon and prayer for your pastor.

I’m surprised Planned Parenthood isn’t giving away their “I had an abortion” t-shirts as part of an abortion promotion campaign. You know, “Get one free after your abortion!”

No, the t-shirts cost $15 each, babe. With abortion on the decline, providers have to find other ways to scrape out a living, you know.

The only problem is, according to Romans 1:18-20, the instinctive knowledge of God, right, and wrong have been placed in every human heart.

Thus, one thing a pregnant mother instinctively knows is she has a baby growing inside her, not an unruly appendage. Fathers know this, too.

Deep inside, all people know abortion is murder, no matter how hard they try to stifle the still, small voice telling them it is so. This is not a shifting moral principle based on societal Puritanism. It is truth.

Getting an abortion will never be a positive in one’s life, an experience to recall with friends over and over as years go by, or to write as an accomplishment in one’s yearbook.

Pro-aborts figure the more often and brazenly they confront the still, small voice, the greater chance they’ll have of shutting it up.

But it won’t work. For girls and women it will always be catastrophic to walk through the doors of an abortion clinic, change from street clothes into that ill-fitting gown with the open back, pad in one’s socks to the operating room, put one’s feet in the stirrups, and hear and feel the suction of an abortion. The feeling of emptiness afterward - because she is - is haunting, something she wants to sleep away at first, and then forget, not celebrate with a t-shirt.

And countless now-good family men in their 30s, 40s and 50s live in wracked silent guilt with memories of how they coerced girlfriends to abort their own child when they were both young and stupid. Abortion now disgusts them, makes them strangely angry. They don't want to think about it.

The problem is, forgetting isn’t possible. This infamous day will never be forgotten, like we never forget the day Kennedy was assassinated or the day the Challenger went down.

So when Planned Parenthood comes up with a gimmick to instill pride in what is impossible to be proud of unless you’re deranged like them, people are intuitively grossed out.

In the Bible, barrenness is considered a curse, and killing children is the most despicable crime of all.

How much more depraved can a woman be who, through the act of abortion, inflicts barrenness upon herself while simultaneously killing her own child?

Yet there are people more depraved than this poor soul.

They are those who push abortion, make money off of abortion, and try to make women feel not just ok but proud about their abortions.

The most depraved people are those in Planned Parenthood, NARAL, the National Abortion Federation, the National Organization for Women, the ACLU, and pro-abortion politicians and judges, because that is what they do.

I have other t-shirt ideas for Planned Parenthood's "social fashion statement" clothing line. How about, "My girlfriend had an abortion" to match the "I had an abortion" t-shirt? Almost all couples break up after abortion. Maybe matching t-shirts would provide a chic bond to hold them together.

Or how about, "My daughter had an abortion"? Except that would only work if one hasn't already aborted one's daughter.

Or how about, "My mother had an abortion"? Whoops. Scratch that one.

Planned Parenthood’s clothing line does include a kid’s tee that says "Parenthood. Plan It!" on the front and "Every Child a Wanted Child" on the back.

But I question the marketing research for that tee. It's surely not a big seller.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; plannedparenthood; prolife; tshirt
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Deep inside, all people know abortion is murder, no matter how hard they try to stifle the still, small voice telling them it is so. This is not a shifting moral principle based on societal Puritanism. It is truth.

This is one of the best editorials on abortion I have ever read.

1 posted on 07/31/2004 12:28:02 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee
Click here to order

Get this T-shirt and fight back against Planned Parenthood's offensive "I had an abortion" T-shirt.

The front of this shirt proudly proclaims: "I had a child." The back urges women to "Choose life."


2 posted on 07/31/2004 12:31:37 PM PDT by SpyGuy
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To: wagglebee

I got an abortion and all I got was this damn T-Shirt?


3 posted on 07/31/2004 12:32:28 PM PDT by MarkeyD (<a href="http:\\www.michaelmoore.com>Maggot</a>)
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To: wagglebee

Listening to pro abortion people is sheer torture. Their arguments would be laughable if it were not for the fact they are trying to make the killing of babies acceptable, if not downright virtuous. There is a very special place in hell for these folks and the sooner they get there, the better for everyone.


4 posted on 07/31/2004 12:32:43 PM PDT by Casloy
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To: wagglebee

Remember when Florida wanted to have license plate frames that said CHOOSE LIFE.......and the abortionists went to court to demand that they not be sold.


5 posted on 07/31/2004 12:41:38 PM PDT by OldFriend (IF IT'S KERRY.....HELL IS ON THE WAY)
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To: wagglebee

The really hip post-modern gals don't get the t-shirt, they get the tattoo.


6 posted on 07/31/2004 12:56:19 PM PDT by weegee (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. ~~Ronald Reagan)
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To: wagglebee

Other pro-life slogans fit for T-shirts:

Can't find your true love? Perhaps they were aborted.
Ever wished you had a big brother? Perhaps he was aborted.
Ever wished you had a big sister? Perhaps she was aborted.
You could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a choice about it.
I'm glad I wasn't aborted!

I'de love to see the commotion from some kid wearing one of those to school.


7 posted on 07/31/2004 12:56:35 PM PDT by Grig
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To: wagglebee
Or how about, "My mother had an abortion"? Whoops. Scratch that one.

Actually there are a number of people who can claim this (about themselves), not all abortions are successful. To them I suggest this shirt:


8 posted on 07/31/2004 1:10:00 PM PDT by weegee (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. ~~Ronald Reagan)
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To: Grig

Thanks, I think I will borrow one of those for a new tagline...


9 posted on 07/31/2004 1:11:37 PM PDT by weegee (YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
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To: Casloy; familyop
There is a very special place in hell for these folks and the sooner they get there, the better for everyone.

The only sane one among us, a Mr. Kopp [by virtue of his normal rational behavior], has already sent one baby butcher to hell prematurely and is serving 25 years to life in prison for his act of defending the lives of those children this deceased abortionist would have killed.

Yes the "doctor" had kids..so do many murderers, yet that does not get them a waiver from prosecution either. Flame suit is on, and I don't care.

Did the "doctor" have a trial? No. Why? The unconstitutional decision by the supreme kangaroo court [lawyers with expensive robes..no more no less] made it legal to murder in cold blood and without anasthesia. Therefore Mr. Kopp took the law into his own hands.

Do I advocate such? This post makes no such case. I merely state the facts. It was his decision and he must live with the consequences, just as the abortionist is enduring his consequences now.

It is obscene that a post like this will be considered outrageous, when the very act that made this post necessary is the real outrage to sane individuals that have not been desensitized by almost 30 years of televison, entertainment, and media conditioning.
~Indie

Read it now ping. It won't be here long I'm sure.

10 posted on 07/31/2004 1:16:56 PM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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To: weegee

Do I get royalties? :)


11 posted on 07/31/2004 1:55:27 PM PDT by Grig
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I usually don't contribute to the pro-life threads, but I was reading an article the other day about the woman who is actually behind these t-shirts - she started a website for woman to post their abortion stories and why "they're not sorry" for doing it. Well, like I said normally I don't contribute to the FR pro-life threads but I was so appalled, so disgusted at the stories I read on that website that I had to compose myself afterward. Stories of women rejoicing for their right to choose to kill their child and having no remorse whatsoever for doing so. It is just the sickest thing I have seen in recent memory.

In case you have the stomach to visit the site, it is www.imnotsorry.net Truly sick.


12 posted on 07/31/2004 2:36:40 PM PDT by rocky88 ("It's goin to be the summer of George! (W. Bush, that is!)")
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To: wagglebee; Indie

Oh, no! This can't be! "Conservative," "Christian" feminist men and women from the "Church" and churches helped N.O.W. to pass the VAWA, Child Support Act, and all of that, because we all know that "males" (danged cuckold fathers) cause abortions! Why, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and all of our other goddesses told them so! Just look at all of the "conservative" websites about Susan B. Anthony and how evil men are!

No, no, it's not women's fault. Just go to the Church or your local domestic violence shelter or your local university Women's Studies department and ask Isis!

[All bitter irony and sarcasm above. Marriage and family are over and done, folks. Each and every kind of feminist accomplished that a long time ago. Smart young men live like monks. Read the following.]

Who's lying to you about early feminism?
http://familyops.us/anthonyproject/


14 posted on 07/31/2004 3:39:50 PM PDT by familyop (Essayons)
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To: rocky88

I read some of them. How sick.


16 posted on 07/31/2004 3:53:16 PM PDT by conservative cat
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To: Indie

It is up to God to decide when and where abortionists go, not people like Mr. Kopp. Murdering abortion doctors is still murder.


17 posted on 07/31/2004 3:54:25 PM PDT by Casloy
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To: OldFriend

They must have failed since it's still going strong having raised nearly two and half million dollars through the end of last year. A number of other states also have Choose Life specialty plates. http://www.hsmv.state.fl.us/specialtytags/ChooseLife.html


18 posted on 07/31/2004 4:06:05 PM PDT by xp38
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Wonderful to hear.....thanks for the info.


19 posted on 07/31/2004 5:22:07 PM PDT by OldFriend (IF IT'S KERRY.....HELL IS ON THE WAY)
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To: wagglebee

I gotta wonder what sick people would actually wear a shirt like that in public. It boggles the mind.


20 posted on 07/31/2004 5:51:09 PM PDT by Trillian
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