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‘I Had an Abortion’ Shirt Sales Stir Controversy at University of North Carolina Wilmington
The Blaze ^ | April 19, 2012 | Christopher Santarelli

Posted on 04/29/2012 1:20:17 PM PDT by Salman

While the right to privacy may have been the key to securing abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, some advocates of the controversial procedure today want to walk around with a sign, t-shirt to be exact, broadcasting their reproductive decisions.

In 2004, abortion advocate and author Jennifer Baumgardner launched the “I Had an Abortion” project to encourage women and men to “come out” about their procedures. The campaign featured shirts that read “I Had an Abortion,” a book, photo exhibit, and documentary film featuring 10 women – including feminist Gloria Steinem – describe their abortion experiences spanning seven decades.

In preparation of an upcoming panel discussion and book signing featuring Baumgardner at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, controversy ensued when “I Had an Abortion” shirts began to pop up around campus. WWAY reports that the panel was held Monday by the Women’s Studies Department and LGBTQIA Resource Office, where the controversial shirts were sold for $15 each at the event.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; boasting; moralabsolutes; prolife
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Boasting about it.
1 posted on 04/29/2012 1:20:28 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Just exercising their “privacy rights”.

(Apparently, they belong to the “irony-impaired generation”.)


2 posted on 04/29/2012 1:23:42 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Salman
Severe psychological damage.
3 posted on 04/29/2012 1:24:03 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (BO Threat Stream: http://blogsofwar.com/threatstream/index_barack_obama.html)
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To: Salman

WECT reports that the shirts caused a protest and other students rallied with their own shirts, saying things like “I haven’t killed a baby.”

4 posted on 04/29/2012 1:26:52 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Salman

Look on the bright side... these are an open billboard for those wanting to avoid this type of sad, pathetic females.


5 posted on 04/29/2012 1:26:52 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: Salman
As long as I can wear, “I'm against infanticide. Are you a proud murderer?”
6 posted on 04/29/2012 1:27:50 PM PDT by almost done by half
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Boasting about it.

When you're utterly amoral you have no use for 50's type things like shame.

7 posted on 04/29/2012 1:28:08 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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To: Salman; Morgana

They are proud of their sacrifice to The Lilith, their baby-eating Goddess.


8 posted on 04/29/2012 1:29:58 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: rawhide

Outstanding.

Wonder how long it took for the murderesses to be offended.


9 posted on 04/29/2012 1:33:23 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Journalists first; then lawyers.)
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To: Salman

Maybe they should say “I Am An Abortion”.


10 posted on 04/29/2012 1:33:37 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Salman

LGBTQIA???

What does that stand for?


11 posted on 04/29/2012 1:34:04 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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If you were to distribute a T-shirt that said, “I drive my kid around without a seat belt,” you would be denounced nationally by the media and popular culture. However when you boast that you killed your child before they had a chance to ride in a car, it becomes a novelty — one more tool for thoughtful political discourse. How sad.


12 posted on 04/29/2012 1:34:36 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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Here’s a t-shirt idea.

“A woman needs an abortion like a fish needs a bicycle.”


13 posted on 04/29/2012 1:38:43 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I attended a Crisis Pregnancy Center dinner celebrating 30th year of pro life centers in AZ - Our Rep Trent Franks was there and so were over 30 families of those who personally came into the center for counseling. We had a mother and her 3 year old daughter at our table along with a couple and their 4 month old son, both of whom are alive today because of CPC ministries. The speaker said “6 million Jews were anhililated in less than 10 years during WWII - over 54 million babies have been murded in less than 40 years since Roe v Wade passed in 1973. (9 Holocausts over!!!)


14 posted on 04/29/2012 1:39:06 PM PDT by princess leah
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do you really really want to know??


15 posted on 04/29/2012 1:39:26 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Salman

“I dodged an abortion” might make an interesting t-shirt.


16 posted on 04/29/2012 1:42:32 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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17 posted on 04/29/2012 1:42:32 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Salman

My mom skipped the abortion.


18 posted on 04/29/2012 1:49:22 PM PDT by Mark was here (When Drano is outlawed, only outlaws will have clear drains.)
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To: GeronL
They are proud of their sacrifice to The Lilith, their baby-eating Goddess.

I wonder what would happen if some women were to start wearing shirts that say "I regret my abortion--CHOOSE LIFE"? I would think such a message might penetrate the Liberal Mind Fog which infests much of the populace, and I think reactions to that message might prompt abortion promoters to show themselves as who they really are, sufficiently clearly that even those infested by Liberal Mind Fog would be able to see it.

After all, abortion promoters could not allow such a message to go unchallenged, lest people who had abortions, and were ashamed of them, come to realize that wearing such a shirt might help atone for their past. It would thus be absolutely imperative that such people be attacked sufficiently viciously to discourage others from following suit. But how to attack them? The left would try to attack them with some contradictory arguments, but even Liberal Mind Fog wouldn't hide the contradictions, nor would it hide the hatred underlying the leftists' attacks.

19 posted on 04/29/2012 1:50:45 PM PDT by supercat (Renounce Covetousness.)
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To: Salman

I wonder if “daddy’s little princess” would wear one of these home to see mom and dad.


20 posted on 04/29/2012 2:03:50 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life. - Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)
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