Posted on 01/20/2008 1:12:43 PM PST by wagglebee
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.
Her neighbor, Glenda Pollock, got the same package.
"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 said the plastic figure represents an 11- or 12-week fetus.
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.
Nobody is telling you what to do with YOUR body, they are merely talking about what to do with the BABY'S body.
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Interesting tactic. Successful as well. In my view, it’s rare that publicity turns out to be a bad thing.
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Exactly. The baby is *reliant* on the mother’s body—it isn’t a part of the mother’s body to be destroyed on whims like a majority of abortions do! :*(
Wow, plastic fetuses! That’s awful. It’s so much better to kill them. </sarc>
Wow, plastic fetuses! That’s awful. It’s so much better to kill them. </sarc>
Maybe they should have just mailed these loud mouthed liberal whiners a real one.
I’m sorry but this is not how you win hearts and minds.
My prolife group used to give out those little plastic babies outside of high schools. I like to think they were pretty effective in educating young girls.
The other effective thing was the pin of the little unborn baby’s feet...actual size of those of a 3-month’s in utero baby.
People who are bothered by the plastic fetus must have something bothering their conscience.....hmmmmm. Might it be that they did something wrong, or helped someone to do something wrong? Something that strikes to their human core (or spiritual soul), that itch that can’t be scratched...”Out, damned spot!” Yes, it is a human life that is snuffed out with each abortion. And I often wonder if these same people could ever think of what may have happended to them if their own mothers had the right to abortion at the time of their conception?
So, I suppose you think the best approach is to just hope that the pro-abortion crowd just changes their minds?
B.S.
It’s educational to let these young girls know the size, shape, and development of a 12 week fetus. It counteracts Planned Barrenhood’s lies that “It’s only a lump of tissue.”
If it weren’t very effective, these pro-abortion women wouldn’t be complaining about it.
Yeah, what’s bothersome is that it looks like a real little teeny weeny baby, and not just a big ‘blob of cells’ like so many abortion-loving killers like to kid themselves!
It is a baby human that is being murdered by abortion.
People don't like to be reminded of this reality.
Absolutely right!
I can understand why some people are put-off by pictures of aborted fetuses, but if someone can't handle a plastic doll they have a serious problem.
“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.”
If were possible to time travel, I wonder what this woman would say if a pro-abortionist travelled back in time and convinced her mother to have an abortion while she was pregnant with this future woman?
Now if someone could incorporate a tiny chip that imitates the sound of a 12-week fetus’ heart beat, the sensitivities of the complainers would REALLY be freaked out. A video of a 12-week ultrasound should be part of every high school sex-ed curriculum. I bet it is not included at all.
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