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(Can anyone please translate for me into Taglog?)
Posted on 03/14/2007 8:07:26 AM PDT by Stoat
SAN FRANCISCO Mar 13, 2007 (AP)— A nonprofit organization has unveiled a series of electronic greeting cards that concerned friends and relatives can send to a woman after she chooses to have an abortion.
Like Exhale's confidential talk line for women who have had abortions, the six e-cards available on the group's Web site were designed to be nonpartisan and encompass the range of someone's potential responses to going through an abortion.
"Women having abortions are calling our line because often they don't have someone to talk to it's a stigmatized issue," said Aspen Baker, founder and executive director of Oakland-based Exhale.
One card expresses sympathy, offering the gentle reminder that, "As you grieve, remember that you are loved." Another provides encouragement for someone who "did the right thing." Yet another strikes a religious tone with the thought that "God will never leave you or forsake you."
Although greeting card offerings have expanded in recent years to include such milestones as divorce, potty-training and half-birthdays, Baker said she was unaware of anyone else providing after-abortion cards online. The inspiration for the project came in part from a longtime abortion provider who frequently observed there were no Hallmark cards for abortion, she said.
The cards, offered in English and Spanish, are part of a broader effort by Baker, who launched Exhale in January 2002, to bring the agency's work into a broader arena. In two weeks, the agency plans to publish a magazine featuring stories, poems, letters and rituals by and for women who have had abortions.
"We designed them to deal with different peoples' response to abortion. Not everyone is grieving their loss. Not everyone has a relationship with God. Not everyone thinks it is the best thing," Baker said. "We hope the people who send them take the time to think not only about the message they want to send, but about what is best for the person receiving it and what they need to hear."
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This e-card has been brought to you by Silly. It is also available in Vietnamese.
This post-abortion e-card has been brought to you by Silly. (Also available in Sanskrit.)
My husband put up a post about this today.
http://imrunningforpresident.blogspot.com/
Such a sad thing.
A Post-Abortion Thank You:You did the right thing, really. Thanks for making my day a little bit busier and a little bit bloodier.
Your new best friend,
Mr. Grim, Activist, Culture of Death
Disclaimer: The Culture of Death and it's affiliates human misery and despair are major financial supporters of and the sole spiritual advisers to Planned Barrenhood.
(I like the 'Choose Life' ecards better)
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I can't believe any group - even a Leftist, pro-abortion group - would do something in such bad taste.
Then again, they are in favor of murdering unborn children. The "good taste" argument goes out the window there.
"the agency plans to publish a magazine featuring stories, poems, letters and rituals by and for women who have had abortions."
Rituals? Is the abortion itself not ritualistic enough?
Yeah, that's on the other side (or an "alternate") to the equally ridiculous card #3 "...no words to express my sympathy for your loss". I can see card number 3, though coming in two versions with the same wording---version #1` would be the one shown, version #2 would have "loss" like that in quotation marks with some variant of the smileyface emoticon.
This whole thing strikes me as a BAD idea, no matter what side of the aisle the sender or recipient happens to be on.
Another thought: a group that named itself "Exhale" was probably founded by a pregnant woman who found the rigors of Lamaze training so tedious she threw up her hands in the 7th or 8th month, and said, "what the hell, I'm gonna abort!".
Are these cultural marxists trying to make themselves parody proof? I was thinking of this scam as satire before this came out. If there is one good thing that you can say about this abomination, it is that a free market can always find a niche to supply.
God forgives. Your baby forgives.
But you will never forgive yourself.
"Now that you have killed your child, come over here and cry on my shoulder."
>> This whole thing strikes me as a BAD idea, no matter what side of the aisle
More precisely, "no matter what side of humanity"
When can we expect to see the e-cards for serial killers?
You want to hear something even worse? Abortion activists putting women who have abortions just for the heck of it or because it's Tuesday in the same category as women who face a real real difficuilt situation like my friend who was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in her 7th week and decided to have one to give her a better chance of surviving to raise her 3 children.
Or they categorize it with women who have had miscarriages or stillbirths and say the women who have had elective just because it's Tuesday abortions are mothers as much as anyone who has had a child.
(My friend by the way is 3 years cancer free. Carrying the child for 33 weeks more and waiting that long for treatment would have killed her. I don't even want to think about having to make a decision like that. In her case which actually is the life of the mother case I am pro choice)
I have no doubt that the ACLU is focus-grouping that idea at this very moment.
To All:
Please accept my apologies for not participating a whole lot on this thread and for not responding to most people's posts to me, which is something that I always try to do.
When I initially posted this news item, I found it utterly disgusting and it literally made me feel numb all over.
The breathtakingly cavalier inhumanity of it all still weighs down upon my heart and I find that I simply don't have a lot of energy to focus on this disgusting subject.
If you've posted to me and had been expecting a reply, please accept my sincere apologies and please know that no offense or disrespect to you is intended.
Best wishes to all for a brighter day tomorrow.
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