Pro-Life Groups Blast NARAL's New Ad Campaign

Talon News ^ | July 30, 2003 | Stephen Dewey

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Interesting that Pro-Life groups don't plan a rebuttal. Also no word of where these ads will appear. New York would be my guess.

[LiteKeeper]

Also no word of where these ads will appear. New York would be my guess.

Bible Belt states, maybe? Or, at least, borderline states to them

[presidio9]

I am very pro-life and living in NY. I conceed that abortion will never be illegal here. Someone once pointed out on this site that liberal prolifers have aborted 30mm babies, most of whom would have grown up to be liberals themselves, thereby costing Gore the 2000 election. How ironic is that?

[Dems_R_Losers]

I saw the ad on a Washington, DC station a few weeks ago, during Meet the Press. Just what I wanted to see while getting ready for church! It is a very obnoxious ad, but I think so over the top that it will not work for NARAL. Any woman smart enough to have an executive job like the woman portrayed in the ad (or watching Sunday news talk shows) is smart enough to know that the Supreme Court is not going to outlaw abortion anytime soon. This whole thing was just a publicity stunt by NARAL.

[goldstategop]

Like women want to go back to being pregnant, barefoot, and in the kitchen. Every one knows that on FR, we pine for the good old days of male supremacy! ;-)

[CCCV]

headline "ABORTION OUTLAWED." The woman gasps,
Too bad that you can't hear the baby "gasp" as his/her brain is sucked out of his/her head, or as the blender grinds their body to juice.

[syriacus]

Speaking of the old days...remember this bumper sticker?

"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."

Since the NARAL folks act like men have had all the power, shouldn't the bumper sticker have said,

"If men could get pregnant, pregnancy would bring lots of perks."?

[CCCV]

the good old days of male supremacy
Boy did I botch up last night. A friend of my wife had gone to Europe brought her back a "Kitchen Witch". Some kind of decoration. When she told me what it was called, I made the natural (at least to me it seemed so) joke and told her to take it back and tell them that I already had one. My wife had a great sense of humor but that one went over like a turd in the punch bowl.
Seems like after being married 14 years I would know better.

[Marysecretary]

My favorite was always,"If men could get pregnant, we'd all only have ONE child."

[Marysecretary]

My favorite was always,"If men could get pregnant, we'd all only have ONE child."

[laweeks]

Where, oh where, are the Pro-Life voices to help counter this nonsense? Isn't there somewhere a national group of wealthy conservatives who'd be thrilled to finance on a regular basis a national rebuttal to these killers? You would think that the Christian churches in this country would create a huge unborn-baby defense fund that would dwarf these bloody organizations. But, 'methinks almost ALL of the religious "leaders" are so scared of loosing their 501C3 tax-exempt status, that they look the other way. WWJD? Would Jesus have shut his mouth if they promised not to collect taxes from Him? How sad. This should be a "walk in the park" fund-wise to outspend the pro-aborts. Instead, it's a national religious leader DISGRACE!

[MHGinTN]

From The Circle Of Life Hang Many Rings

Forty years ago, I was a senior in High School. My graduated class is planning fortieth reunion festivities. Those facts, combined with a sprinkle of new facts that will be relevant in a moment, cause me to offer the following thought: the circle of life that is a lifetime (if you make it into the air world from the water world, and that thought will become relevant shortly, also) is hallmarked by rings of seemingly a causal events that are synchronistic in nature … somehow, events throughout a lifetime are connected to seemingly distant events one has witnessed during a lifetime but would not initially see as connected by cause and effect.

During my senior year in High School, I was sweet on a really cute girl. We will call ‘Sweet Sue’ for privacy sake. In the spring of that year, Sue’s parents invited me into their house one evening, to ask if I would like to marry their daughter! Well, at eighteen, with independence and college in my sights, I had no intentions of marrying this lovely creature so soon. When I shared this sentiment with her parents, I was informed that she was pregnant. It was impossible for this child in the womb to have been my child. Besides being crushed to learn of implied conundrums such as fidelity and true love deferred, I reasoned out the parents’ offer as a means to ‘save Sweet Sue’s honor. It surely was all of that, but there was something far deeper, something I didn’t come to connect until recent events in my own household. And here’s where the rings dangling from the circle of life come in …

I have a twenty-years-old stepdaughter whom recently we learned is pregnant … and she’s no more married or committed than was Sweet Sue. Now THAT’S a stunner, but here’s how the synchronicity arises. Sue became pregnant a full decade before Roe v Wade. Three decades have passed since the Roe fiat ruling legalized society’s tacit acceptance and expedient reliance upon killing newly conceived human beings. In thinking through my own emotions and confusion regarding my stepdaughter’s sudden pregnancy, I came to realize a deeper reason for Sweet Sue’s parents offering their daughter for marriage to a boy not the father of their coming grandchild. [With that hint, many will already know the synchronistic connection, but I’ll muddle on, anyway.]

Because I abhor abortion and my wife has come to think likewise, we immediately conceived of that prenatal human as our grandchild … and so did Sweet Sue’s parents, and they didn’t want to lose that baby from their family just as today we do not want to lose the current little one in our midst. An eighteen-years-young boy can be forgiven for not grasping that concept so many years before our current horrific reality of abortion on demand and at the sole discretion of the pregnant female. Things are far worse, today.

Sweet Sue offered her baby for adoption (and with Sue’s beauty and normally good sense, it is likely that some couple has enjoyed decades of blessing from Sue’s ‘choice’). Sadly, my stepdaughter is strongly considering the same avenue. The parallels between Sue and my stepdaughter, though decades removed, are amazing … and of course the parallel between Sue’s parents and their conflicted hearts and our current sagging hearts is also notable, so allow me to offer a moral to this story.

Forty years ago, the stigma of bearing a child out of wedlock was foremost in my young mind; what concerned Sue’s parents more was the prospect of their grandchild not being in their lives. After thirty years of abortion on demand, there appears to still be a stigma to out-of-wedlock pregnancy, yet to go and hire a serial killer to ‘handle the problem’ has little or no stigma attached! America, something is really, really screwy in that reality. How did we reach the societal stage when killing a prenatal being is more acceptable than bringing that baby into our midst to share life, either in our home as a member of our family or as an adoptee?

It will tear at my old heart to see this baby adopted, but I refuse to attach any stigma to my stepdaughter given that she made the second ‘choice’ correctly, even if she’s fumbling the third or fourth choice. This baby will be a survivor in the abortion holocaust era … and for that I give thanks to Almighty God. Within certain sub-cultures of society, the stigma of out-of-wedlock child bearing is all but forgotten, yet these same peoples have the higher rates of abortion to their posterity. Something is terribly wrong with that, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Tom Daschle, Barbara Boxer, Tom Harkin, bill Clinton, hillary Clinton, liberal left-leaning media! Something is bloody wrong with THAT!

She's a child, not a choice.

[CCCV]

I refuse to attach any stigma to my stepdaughter given that she made the second ‘choice’ correctly
A testament to her training from her parents. A very good choice given how much propaganda is put out today in favor of simpley killing the most innocent victim of a poor decision.
I'm not a grandparent, and I doubt that I can imagin what not being able to watch this child grow will mean, but I can assure you (as I'm sure you know) that Gods Grace is sufficient to get your family through this.
My prayers are with you.

[MHGinTN]

Thank you for the prayers ... we have no doubt that His Love and Grace will bring us through this perplexing time. [I have it on good authority that God is decidely 'pro-life', so choosing His perspective cannot be wrong.]

[BMiles2112]

Too bad that you can't hear the baby "gasp" as his/her brain is sucked out of his/her head, or as the blender grinds their body to juice.

That needs to be a commercial. I know, "What about the children watching TV?" If they're watching TV, chances are they've been scarred far worse by MTV, ABCNNBCBS, etc.

[beelzepug]

My son was married last year. His girlfriend was pregnant. I'm not particularly fond of her and both my wife and I are reasonably certain this was not an accident, that she allowed herself to get pregnant to force a commitment from him. No excuses for him - he knew the risks as well. As a result, they will do without a lot of things for a few years since he now has to work and a college education will be much later in coming, if it ever does.
Still, they DID marry, in the church, there was no easy-way-out abortion, and we have the most beautiful grandson you could ever imagine (no bias here!). I will trust God to work all this out for the best.

[CCCV]

I have three Girls myself. They are still young enough to teach. My wife and I have a very difficult time keeping up with the garbage that the world puts out and trying to help my girls make good decisions. Your prespective is eye opening - thanks for sharing it. It fits well with my Churchs policy of not shooting our wounded but helping them to make better decisions in the future than they did in the past. It will help me when the need arises again for counciling.

[CCCV]

...chances are they've been scarred far worse by MTV, ABCNNBCBS, etc
Yep, too bad our side sees the need to fight fair.

[BMiles2112]

Yep, too bad our side sees the need to fight fair.
Well, most of us. There's a guy here in Michigan that has shown up every now and again for elections. John Mangopoulos(sp.), I think. He showed campaign ads, not for himself, but against other pro-choice candidates, that show late-term aborted babies. It's disturbing to watch. At least he shows them later at night. My wife and I disagree on this. She thinks he's sick for showing it on TV when kids could be watching. My opinion is he's just showing the truth, as upsetting as it may be. He got my vote, for better or worse.

[CCCV]

the truth, as upsetting as it may be.
I agree with you. My oldest daughter is 7 years old and while she may not completely understand all the how's and why's of childbirth, she does know that God alone grants life. She also knows about the abortuaries here in town (one is beside one of our malls). We drove by and I showed her where they kill babies.
She asked me how, and I told her. She handled it pretty well I thought.
We have a new child on the way and we speak of our new gift as one of the family right now.