Right To Life Group Sends Plastic Fetus In Mail

RACINE, Wis. -- A right to life group in Racine is under fire after mailing controversial material to 44,000 people.

It included an informational letter, a fundraising envelope and a small plastic fetus.

Mystical Listrom said she was not happy with what she found inside when she opened a letter from Wisconsin Right to Life accompanied by a plastic fetus.

"It's my right to choose to do what I want with my body. I shouldn't have people telling me what I can and can't do with my body," Listrom said.

"If they had sent a letter explaining why they think abortion should not be allowed, I wouldn't have a problem with that. It was the plastic fetus that bothered me," Pollock said.

"We thought it would be appropriate to send out some information to get people talking about the subject," said Dave Obernberger of Wisconsin Right to Life.

Dave and Bonnie Obernberger, with the Racine County chapter of Wisconsin Right to Life, are the people behind the mailing.

They sent it out this week to mark the 35-year anniversary of Roe Vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

"I pray that they'll look at it a little more than being offended by it, but being educated by it," Dave Obernberger said.

The Obernbergers said they have already gotten some response, and they expect more.

Pollock wasted no time having her voice heard. She brought the package to the post office and mailed it back.

"I had to pay to have it returned because it was a non-profit mailing, which I was happy to pay. It was just over $1 and it was well worth it," Pollock said.

Pollock filed a complaint with the U.S. Postal Service; however, it doesn't appear to be illegal.

Postal officials said it doesn't fit their standards of obscene or lewd, but they said people can fill out a form that would prevent them from getting mail from Wisconsin Right to Life in the future.

The mailers were sent to every home in Racine and to some of the surrounding suburbs.

Most people have good hearts but never truly think about what happens in abortions. They will be sickened once their eyes have been opened. Never again could they say it's a choice without feeling ill inside.

I can truly say that this is what happened to me.

*Mystical Listrom said she was not happy with what she found inside when she opened a letter from Wisconsin Right to Life accompanied by a plastic fetus. "It's my right to choose to do what I want with my body. I shouldn't have people telling me what I can and can't do with my body," Listrom said. *

This is very, very interesting. I would suspect Ann Coulter would have some words about this. Maybe they would be along the lines of what I think:

This just goes to show: One man's treasure is indeed another man's garbage, I would imagine.

One person would open that package, be confronted with a representation of a little human being, and think (or say) "WOW! Amazing, just look at that!" --upon viewing the very genesis of the beauty of human life, something we all went through ourselves.

And another person will look at it and say "Oh!! Get it out of my face! That's DISGUSTING!"

Big difference in peoples' responses. I think that says a lot about people and their individual humanity.

Some are obviously for the inherent BEAUTY of Life.

Others, sad to say, are with the Dark One, in abject hatred of Beauty, Truth and Life.

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