Planned Parenthood Potlucks. What's next? Keggers for Cancer?
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Because you have to read this one to believe it.)
A national campaign from Planned Parenthood to have potluck dinners to raise money for the abortion battle in South Dakota. Wow. They have a national potluck coordinator?
And the quotes they have in this e-mail which is going out across the nation....
Here are some of our favorite quotes from people who have already planned parties:Yes, the atmosphere will be rockin'... indeed.
"Put on your favorite Hawaiian shirt and join us for an End-of-Summer Luau. Eat, drink, be merry — and help us support choice in South Dakota ."
— Jasmine in Washington , DC
"I like food. I like friends. I like choice. Let's keep it that way."
— Allison in Atlanta , GA
"Dress is casual and the atmosphere will be rockin'!"
— KaeLyn in Oswego , NY
I'm not sure if I could consider this a clever idea, because the argument over whether or not a fetus constitutes an unborn child, or a collection of cellular material, seems to demand a bit more solemnity than a frat party.
I mean, I think this would be perfectly acceptable if it were for a candidate. But for abortion? It just seems a little too ...jovial.
It's not like you'd have Keggers for Cancer, or a Toga Party for pediatric AIDS with quotes like "Dress in your best bedsheet and do a beer bong to raise money for dying little Jimmy! Woooo!"
I'll be interested to see how many of these they do in South Dakota.
And whether or not they're cash bar or BYOB.
*Update* Just so I can make the obvious editorial cartoon on the topic before anyone else does, heeeere we go..
Comments
I wonder what's for desert?
Maybe the buffet line will be on operating table.
While the idea of having potlucks might be somewhat offensive, your "cartoon" is as offensive as it gets. Frankly, I expected better out of you.
And that picture you came up with was disgusting. You're better than that.
And of course it's a bit much. It's not Garfield. It's an editorial cartoon intended to provoke reaction and opinion.
I just can't get over the indignation of pro-abortion people when a pro-life person states or shows a real fact about abortion. Then they claim the statement/picture is gross or disgusting. What in the world do they think abortion is???
There's only one reason this has you libs spitting nails. Because YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! And when it all comes down to it, you hate being reminded that before the baby is pulled apart it looks like a baby. It's not a noble cause you fight for, but you fight for it anyway. That has to be lonely.
Rage on, PP!
Fetus
Potential life
Potential child
Potential human
Clump of cells
Blob of tissue
Economic inconvenience
Unwanted child
Unwanted pregnancy
Choice
There are others. Get back on message. We can't let them know the reality of our business.
Since you once stated on this blog that you would prefer that the abortion ban includes exceptions for incest and rape, I didn't expect you to be so radical.
Their potlucks might be in questionable taste, but your cartoon is deplorable.
Two wrongs have never made a right. You struck out on this one, pp.
Maybe the potlucks would be an opportunity to involve people who wouldn't feel comfortable at a demonstration or a wine and cheese fundraiser in Planned Parenthood's work.
Maybe the potlucks would be an opportunity for friends to spend time together while raising money for a cause they deem important.
Planned Parenthood isn't just about abortion and when it comes down to it, Referred Law 6 isn't just about abortion either.
And pro-choicers have fun sometimes, too.
Oh wait, no.
We eat babies.
At potlucks.
Sponsored by Planned Parenhood.
(?????????)
My opinion is that you're an oblivious hypocrite.
But a baby on a fork is real nice.
Jesus dude, what were you thinking?
Welcome to a taste of your own medicine.
It is a child you are killing and you just don't want to think about it.
If it were a turtle you were killing all the Liberals would be on the Life side, because it is a child you don't care.
PP You are great, it takes someone with courage and conviction to stand up to the Liberals on Life.
I feel sorry for liberals all they have on their side is lies, because 99% of liberal programs are failures, and death. I can't wait to join a Liberal cause!!
I will give you one more to pour a little more fuel on the fire! Have you ever heard "Thou shall not kill"
That cartoon should be repulsive to anyone with even a small amount of human dignity, regardless of what one's opinion is about abortion. You definitely crossed the line with the suggestion of cannibalism. What's next - cartoons about beastiality or necrophilia?
On a sidenote, PP, are you against having dinners with lots of people? What do you do at dinner with your family, just sit silently and chew your food? Basically, what do you have against potlucks?
Do you think giving women the vote was a failure?
Talk about moral relativism.
I'll break it down for the backwards caveman liberals who call themselves progressives:
Cartoon Bad
Killing baby good
No, I'm not against potlucks. But in this instance, and how planned parenthood is portraying it, it's like having a marquerita party at the cemetery. It's just comes off as a little crass.
Just like "havin' a rockin' good time" in relation to probably the great moral question of our time.
Hence the cartoon. It's meant to be offensive, because that's how the whole thing comes off to me. And I'm in the "exceptions camp."
Would it be okay if people who are opposed to war used photos of dead soldiers and civilians in their promotional material? I see no difference between doing that and using photos and cartoons of dead babies to make a point.
Where is Bruce Walen's oldest son? Why isn't he in any campaign materials?
This is called Throwing Your Mud Balls Back at You. Doesn't taste too good, does it?
I consider myself to be politically moderate, not the flaming liberal that you would prefer to believe.
If thinking that rape and incest victims have the right to an abortion puts me in what you consider a class of mud throwers, then I have a lot of company, Pat Powers included.
As far as how it tastes - it's tasteless, just like too many of the tactics pro-lifers employ to get their point across. I guess that's what you do when you don't have a strong enough argument.
If I have to be pigeonholed into one of your generalizations, I prefer to be with people who can think for themselves and realize that some things are neither black nor white. If that is all it takes to be placed in your "You" category, so be it.
Really, you're just proving to me that it's NOT about who should have abortion or the mechanics/ethics of the practice anymore. It's all about making sure those Stupid-Hayseed-Hick-Jesusfreak-ProLife-Christers get ostracized and slapped down hard.
Quit trying to show your faux outrage at folks like me who want to make sure my side prevails.
They think is a about a choice....it is not it is about life.
I would be willing to bet if the fetus could talk he would choose Life not Death......If it is really about choice let the fetus decide
Some of you people are so pro-choice....that they wish that they had been aborted!
This will fire a few up :)
But earlier (8:37 a.m.) you said, "Welcome to a taste of your own medicine." So what or whom were you referring to there?
As far as the rest of what you later said, you used the adjectives, not me. I don't have faux outrage, just a real bad taste in my mouth for people who will do anything to get attention.
You said it all yourself. There's nothing I can add.
I don't know where all of your rage is coming from, but I guess it's better that you air it here instead of literally taking shots at someone.
PP is trying to spin his way out of an embarrassing and idiotic post by claiming that it was intended to inspire debate. Sure it was.
"The pro-choice crowd has sometimes spoken of abortion as a "tragedy" and it should be "safe, legal, and rare." The giddy delight over legalized abortion suggested in this Planned Parenthood stunt belies the public long face the the pro-choicers often have about abortion."
I can just see it, while eating meatballs and finger food Looby leans over to Bell and says, "What do you call an abortion in Czechslovakia?
Bell responds with a hearty laugh, "a cancelled Czech!"
What happened to THOU SHALL NOT KILL?
is at 59.
And anon 7:59, yes, it's meant to point out the absurdity and to bring out debate. It's not like anyone bit on the absurdity of the "kegger for pediatric AIDS" comment.
Anon 9:55 - Most arguments over the pros and cons of abortions are based on when people believe ensoulment takes place. Some people say that happens at conception. Others say it happens later on as the baby develops.
People who believe the latter, including many Christians, do not believe that abortion is murder until at least later in the pregnancy.
That difference of opinion is why there is so much controversy. The fact that people who believe one thing call the other group vile names does not help the situation.
I am not a murderer. I am not a baby killer. I have never had an abortion or performed one on someone else - not that doing that would justify those disgusting labels.
What did I do to justify being the recipient of such name calling? I dare to believe that there are situations where women's well-being must be the top consideration when problem pregnancies occur.
I know that many of you do not share my beliefs, but I won't adjust my heartfelt beliefs just to accommodate other people. I will not be intimidated by people who believe they have the right to judge me and others who do not believe like they do.
I believe that I will stand before God one day and be judged. It will be up to Him - and only Him - to decide if my compassion was misplaced.
It brought out the debate alright, but it did so at a cost to your integrity.
What's it going to be? Good Christian? Or mean and nasty? You can't be both!!
Seriously, how is this different from any other fundraising event? It this was Brock Greenfield's BBQ for Life you'd think it was brilliant.
Not to mention this....
"For a $15 credit card charge, any woman or teenaged girl can order a T-shirt online from Planned Parenthood emblazoned with the words, "I Had An Abortion.""
That was from a couple years ago. It didn't go over so well. Now they've got a t-shirt that says "Kiss Me....I'm Pro-Choice" Apparently the "tragedy" of abortion can land a person a little action.
Yes, it happens to everyone - even if some people don't act like it.
Read the majority Roe opinion. Pick on the legally loose basis for the decision but interesting the court states that when the great majority of the country can't decide this issue the court (the evangelicals too I would argue) should be loathe to impose itself in such a matter, much as the Right Right attempts to do by substituting as statute or by constitutional amendment its religious belief on the rest of us. And don't give me that medical agrument, we can all find an MD or distraught patient of anytype to saw what ever we want on any subject, not just abortion...midwifery?
I was referring to folks who have the bad habit of calling folks like me "Racists, Hayseed Hicks, and Homophobes." I am referring to those who insist I am out to starve children and force women to be "barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen."
And apparently, I am referring to those who think I have nothing but rage. Are you suggesting that folks like me, who are not willing to put up with your rigged debate "rules" and your emotional, manipulative tripe anymore, have some sort of Anger Management issue? Are you also suggesting there's something wrong with me if I am somewhat more forceful in presenting my take on issues.
If so, you have shown the entire world what you think of some of your neighbors.
Can you believe this?? Actually, the antithesis of what they stand for to be wearing such a shirt. The people selling and wearing these had parents who valued their unborn children's lives. Too bad these people don't feel the same toward today's unborn children.
Hypocrites.
After all Planned Parenthood was started to keep the population of certain ethnic groups in check. This is well profiled by the founder.
Planned Parenthood is a very well disguised Organization of bigotry and racism albeit not necessarily South Dakota. One could argue that there are limitations on what the local PP people are capable of really understanding.
I would encourage anyone interested in PP to google Margaret Sanger and learn what it is really all about. To say that there is no relationship between her original thoughts on how to keep the population of undesirables down and those of todays PP members is like saying that there is no relationship between our Founding Fathers and todays politicians. There is a common thread.
This was in the 20th Century, not 300 years ago. How could anyone with an ounce of common decency belong or advocate an Organization like this?
My guess is that the number will be pretty small.
This is a white thing. Sangars efforts are alive and well in S.D.
People who are making these claims have simply found one more way to strike out at Planned Parenthood.
The "Foley" family values have reached the SD GOP blogosphere already.
Next I suppose we will have a cartoon with a log cabin afire burning up those Republicans.