Posted on 12/14/2005 5:03:15 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
December 14, 2005 - 07:04.
"We recognize the right of all women to choose whether, when, and under what circumstances to bear children. Reproductive freedom and responsibility are essential to other rights and opportunities, including pursuit of education, employment, financial security and a stable and fulfilling family life. Restrictions of reproductive choice are especially burdensome for young women and poor women. Girls Incorporated supports a woman’s freedom of choice, a constitutional right established by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 in Roe vs. Wade."
Would you say the foregoing statement, from Girls Inc. [see it here http://www.girlsinc.org/ic/page.php?id=4.3.4 on the Girls Inc. web site]:
A. Is an unequivocal 'pro-choice' position; or
B. Simply "favors an open discussion about abortion"?
If you chose 'A', I'd say you're grounded in reality. If you chose 'B', you are probably a writer/producer for the Early Show at CBS.
The matter arose in the context of an Early Show segment on American Girl [AG], a company that markets a successful line of dolls and other materials for girls. The segment focused on a new AG ad campaign called "Save Girlhood" which, as described by CBS reporter Mika Brzezinski, "calls on parents to preserve the magic of childhood and rejects the vampy messages barraging pre-teens."
Continued Brzezinski:
"The ad campaign may also be helping the company to refocus after controversy this year over the company's affiliation with Girls, Inc., an organization that supports underprivileged girls but also favors an open discussion of abortion."
"Save Girlhood" is AG's first-ever major ad campaign in 20 years, but a clip was played from ad agency rep claiming with a straight face that they had "concepted this" [don't you love the way Madison Ave. people talk?] well before the controversy came out."
Right. Pure coincidence.
For CBS and the Early Show, an explicit statement that Girls, Inc. "supports a woman's freedom of choice" and Roe v. Wade is nothing more than support for "an open discussion of abortion."
If another doll maker was found to be affiliated with a group whose web site contained a statementidentical statement to that of Girls, Inc., with the sole difference being that the language on supporting abortion and Roe was modifed by 'not', do you think CBS would likewise describe the group as supporting "an open discusssion on abortion"?
Neither do I.
Early Show ping to the Today Show ping list.
"We recognize the right of all women to choose whether, when, and under what circumstances to bear children."
Unless, of course, they are women who are still in the womb, in which case Girls Inc. supports their right to be murdered.
Isn't it ironic that the same people who insist that a woman should be able to kill her unborn baby also insist that the same women do not have a right to defend themselves from harm by keeping and bearing arms? The Second Amendment isn't only about men. It's about the people.
In other words the slogan could say: We recognize the right of all women to choose whether, or when, and under what circumstances to kill children.
Charming...
freedom of choice, a constitutional right established by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 in Roe vs. Wade."
At least they were honest. In this case the Supreme Court created a right. Usually amending the Constitution is a bit more complicated than that.
Great point!!
I'm pro-choice: buy the dolls or don't buy the dolls, I don't care.
Thanks
This subject really gets my blood boiling.
Only voters can create rights in a State or the Federal constitution.
Troll.
bu-bye
I have the right not to buy American Girl products, I have the right to tell American Girl what I think of their affiliation with this group.
I have and although this would be the year that my little one would go to the AG store to pick out her doll, the Walmart knock-off is just the thing to give her instead. It's 15.00 for the same cheap piece of plastic.
And I did write American Girl to tell them this. They never responded.
If anyone needs one of these dolls, try used on E-Bay.
So you believe that abortion is just another method of birth-control?
Why do you think I'm a troll? I said the choice is to buy the doll or not buy the doll, and I'm pro-choice on whatever you decide about that. If any company's political stance or other aspects of how it does business doesn't fly with you, you can vote with your wallet. In what way does that make me a "troll"?
How did you get that out of my statement that you have a right to buy or not buy a DOLL? I haven't been here long, but some posters here jump to some pretty huge conclusions.
And yes, some people can be quick to jump on tagging you as a Troll...probably just anxious to get a whiff of ozone or something.
Thanks for the welcome. I see I'm going to have to sometimes type V E R Y S L O W L Y..... ;-D
You said that you were pro-choice... stating that without qualifications, one would assume you were for abortion-on-demand. Are you?
I shouted this at a "women's rights" heckler at a pro-life march. Shut her right up.
My statement was this, precisely:
"I'm pro-choice: buy the dolls or don't buy the dolls, I don't care."
The colon after "pro-choice" refers to the statement about buying dolls. Remember English class in sixth grade? :)
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