Finally: Abortion e-cards now available
posted at 1:05 pm on March 14, 2007 by Allahpundit
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They’re all so glum. Where are the upbeat cards?
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Those are what you send after you’ve purchased your cheat-neutrals. If you know what I mean…
robblefarian on March 14, 2007 at 1:09 PM
And people go to China to adopt.
Kini on March 14, 2007 at 1:10 PM
These need to be sent en masse to every democrat member of congress. Some Republican ones too.
rightside on March 14, 2007 at 1:11 PM
The encouragement one takes the cake.
“I think you did the right thing.”
SnakeintheGrass on March 14, 2007 at 1:11 PM
Ok. Hold on there. I adopted from China. Why? Because the US government doesn’t allow people over a certain age (I think 35 or 40) to adopt. So, how can I adopt from the US, when I’m not allowed to?
amerpundit on March 14, 2007 at 1:15 PM
And to Rudy.
Labamigo on March 14, 2007 at 1:21 PM
And to Romney, who was pro-choice.
amerpundit on March 14, 2007 at 1:22 PM
This is another parody site…right?
Brent on March 14, 2007 at 1:22 PM
Unfortunately, no. It was on FoxNews.com, as well.
amerpundit on March 14, 2007 at 1:23 PM
Available in Spanish too, how multi cultural of them.
LakeRuins on March 14, 2007 at 1:29 PM
Yes, it goes along with the whole thing. Do they have abortion scholarships, too?
amerpundit on March 14, 2007 at 1:31 PM
I’m thinking this should have been a parody site and the infidelity offsets should have been real.
vcferlita on March 14, 2007 at 1:32 PM
I love how the religious one refers to the abortion as a “transition.”
Certainly is a transition for the fetus.
Labamigo on March 14, 2007 at 1:32 PM
It’s official! Now I’ve seen it all!
james hooker on March 14, 2007 at 1:33 PM
Here’s the Fox News story. There ya go.
amerpundit on March 14, 2007 at 1:38 PM
Speechless.
Matticus Finch on March 14, 2007 at 1:38 PM
Wait until you start seeing them at your local Walmart Card Aisles.
kiakjones on March 14, 2007 at 1:38 PM
The one expressing “sympathy” for “your loss” was the most disturbing. It’s as if the fetus was accidentally killed in a hit-and-run accident or something.
SWLiP on March 14, 2007 at 1:42 PM
Okay, I’m not speechless any more. “Sorry for your loss?” It wasn’t a loss, Holmes, it was a decision to throw away. You don’t send somebody a “sorry for your loss” card when they get rid of a cyst, do you? I mean, that’s what it is, nothing more than an unwanted growth, right? I’m going to get a card together:
“Sorry you murdered that baby. It could have been loved by someone who was willing to adopt it, you butcher.”
Matticus Finch on March 14, 2007 at 1:43 PM
Where’s the one that says “Congratulations on being parasite free”
lorien1973 on March 14, 2007 at 1:46 PM
As I’ve said before, nothing says “wymyns emancipation” like a dead fetus. Or should I say murdered fetus?
thirteen28 on March 14, 2007 at 1:46 PM
This is awesome. Not nearly as cool as the “I had an abortion” t-shirts that were getting some play a few years ago, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction if you ask me.
But who the hell would ask me?
Enrique on March 14, 2007 at 1:47 PM
Does Jennifer Raper get one?
And what does the baby get?
BillLalor on March 14, 2007 at 1:48 PM
I think I have some good ones:
“Congratulations - on ripping that piece of flesh out of your gully hole”
“Congratulations - you can have PMS 7 months earlier than you thought!”
“They do look like lizards!”
lorien1973 on March 14, 2007 at 1:48 PM
Where’s the one that says,
“Aborting an unborn child isn’t easy to do, but it’s intrusiveness into your insatiable desire for unprotected sex can be really annoying.
…….. Just letting you know we understand”
fogw on March 14, 2007 at 1:50 PM
Possible Card Motif: Thank you for your contribution to embryonic stem cell research!
Yeah, I know, one way ticket to Hell for me…aisle seat please.
Bad Candy on March 14, 2007 at 1:53 PM
Here’s are some mean ones:
You would have been a shitty parent anyways.
Good choice. You couldn’t keep it alive for 9 months. What made you think you could keep it alive for 18 years?
Thanks for contributing to the Roe Effect.
lorien1973 on March 14, 2007 at 2:04 PM
i think this one may be a bit too far.
jummy on March 14, 2007 at 2:08 PM
I don’t want to put words into the original posters mouth, but, I think they were commenting on the fact that many people have to go to China to adopt babies because the waiting list to adopt a baby in the U.S. is years and years long. While many people wait years and years (or look overseas) to adopt a child, other people throw their children away as unwanted and inconvenient.
I don’t think they were criticizing people that go overseas to adopt at all.
JadeNYU on March 14, 2007 at 2:08 PM
I think what they meant was there are so many people waiting to adopt a child here and people abort an unborn child when there are loving families waiting for a baby.
RW Wacko on March 14, 2007 at 2:09 PM
or
perhaps
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on March 14, 2007 at 2:10 PM
Jummy, I don’t know. I kind of liked that one.
Matticus Finch on March 14, 2007 at 2:10 PM
… Do they have abortion scholarships, too?
amerpundit on March 14, 2007 at 1:31 PM
Those are abortion scholarship instruments and are sold separately. Put them into the envelope (postage required) instead of the tuition check.
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It’s official! Now I’ve seen it all!
james hooker on March 14, 2007 at 1:33 PM
I think you’re underestimating them, James. They’ll build a better cesspool to live in.
Dusty on March 14, 2007 at 2:16 PM
I think they should continue sending eCards every year afterwards.
“Congratulations, your son would have been 1 year old today.”
Mojave Mark on March 14, 2007 at 2:28 PM
Disgusting.
Don’t they have a “Congrats for Ending a Wrongful Life” card? A “Now You Don’t Have To Sue the Abortion Doctor” card?
WriterMom on March 14, 2007 at 2:29 PM
Here’s the thing I’m never, ever going to understand about the liberal embrace of abortion:
They claim to be on the side of the weak and the voiceless - yet they hold it a sacred right to destroy those that are weakest, those with no voice at all.
They sidestep that massive hypocrisy with a simple claim: what we are killing is not alive … or at least you can’t prove it’s alive.
How you “kill” something not alive is anyone’s guess. And how you support killing something with “you can’t prove it’s alive” seems so vastly non-liberal … can I bomb that terrorists hideout - if no one can prove there are no innocents inside? Or do we err on the side of caution?
Why don’t liberals err on the side of caution?
I think global warming is vapidly stupid - yet I’m happy to support common sense means of reducing emissions … because the logical position is to err on the side of caution.
Why are liberals not only certain they can pinpoint when life begins - but also unwilling to simply be careful of the drastic consequences of a potential error? It baffles me - because its the opposite rhetorical strategy from every - single - other liberal position.
Why don’t they see it?
A child was recently born at just under 21 weeks, and survived. In most states, abortion on demand is legal through week 24.
Why in
God’sGaia’s name does this not even bother liberals? How do they simply deny that - now living and breathing - humans existence?Or doesn’t it matter?
And if it doesn’t matter … then how is there any intellectual or moral consistency to any other liberal position?
Abortion puts all of the rest of liberalism against the wall and executes it. As long as they refuse to address any of the above - every thing else they say is rendered moot.
But you know what gets me most of all? It’s this: liberals view science as their god. Lower-cage “g.” They worship science and that alter of the Goracle.
Yet that very faith should suggest that - sooner or later - science is going to pinpoint the precise beginning of life. Whether its supernatural or biological, sooner or later, we’ll know to a scientific certainty when life begins (we already know to a moral certainty, of course).
It’s almost guaranteed.
In fact, if the same scientists who somehow missed the thunderstorm this afternoon can actually predict global warming patterns 30 years from now … they really ought to already be able to tell me when life begins.
In fact, there should be a “consensus” on the subject, and people questioning the consensus should have death threats made against them.
But I digress.
The point is that someday the god they worship is going to specifically define the moment of life.
How are liberals going to deal with their complicity in the murder of tens of millions, if the chosen moment is at any time prior to 24 weeks?
How?
I will never understand this. How can they claim to care about chickens fur seals and Darfur and Castro and the rain forests …. and children … and not ask themselves these questions?
Professor Blather on March 14, 2007 at 2:31 PM
You’ve got to be fecking kidding me!
I am speechless.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on March 14, 2007 at 2:31 PM
The point is we could ask you, if we wanted to, since no one aborted you.
TexasDan on March 14, 2007 at 2:38 PM
How about a “Thank You” card…
“Thank You… For Doing Your Part to Reduce Greenhouse Gases”
CliffHanger on March 14, 2007 at 2:38 PM
The ones about healing were particularly precious, and the religious ones were pretty interesting, too.
I suppose it’s only tasteful to omit reference to the healthy child who won’t be healing or that God’s love might conceivably extend even to the child that was killed.
You should put a warning on the link to that site–
morganfrost on March 14, 2007 at 2:41 PM
what about this one?
jummy on March 14, 2007 at 2:46 PM
Whoa. Appalling doesn’t begin to cover it, does it?
I can’t even type.
A shower and a drink? How ’bout an hour in a soapy jacuzzi with some steel wool and a gallon pitcher of margaritas?
And I don’t even drink.
Bob's Kid on March 14, 2007 at 3:16 PM
Hang on, Jummy. It’ll take me a while to look up all those long words in the dictionary.
Matticus Finch on March 14, 2007 at 3:16 PM
Sounds like a date I had back in my college days. How ya doin’, Bob’s Kid? I think we used to correspond over on LGF a while back.
Matticus Finch on March 14, 2007 at 3:21 PM
May you not find pieces after your abortion
saint kansas on March 14, 2007 at 3:26 PM
Hmmm. Maybe we simply need to learn to clearly see our “opportunities” for what they are —
when they come a’ knockin’. For example, the
“Congratulations! on your empowerment” e-card
(at top of this thread) could be sent to the
surviving family members of dead Jihadists.
(Okay. So maybe that’s not such a good idea.)
Dang! It’s hard to put ANY kind of positive spin on this.
CyberCipher on March 14, 2007 at 3:33 PM
If you were born after 1973 understand that 1/3 of your generation was aborted.
1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).
The total number of abortions performed in the U.S. since 1973 exceeds the population of our most populous state, California. The number also exceeds the combined population of 22 states (Wyoming, Alaska, Vermont, North Dakota, Delaware, South Dakota, Montana, Rhode Island, Idaho, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Nevada, Maine, New Mexico, Nebraska, Vermont, West Virginia, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Indiana, and Oregon).
“A woman’s choice” is not absolute. Do men have the freedom of choice to rape a woman if that is his choice? After all, it’s his body, why do we have a right to tell him what to do with it? Why do we have a right to impose our morals on him? By emphasizing a rapist’s right to choose, we clearly are completely ignoring the rights of the woman, just as a woman can do to her unborn.
Consider the logic of this scenario: “I’m personally not in favor of someone dealing drugs at schools, but that’s a matter to decide between the drug dealer and his attorney. We don’t want to go back to the days when drug dealing was illegal, and people died in back alleys from bad cocaine. I personally wouldn’t buy drugs, so I’m not pro-drugs. I’m just pro-choice about drug dealing.”
Just my 2¢ worth.
shamalama on March 14, 2007 at 3:34 PM
I am against abortion as a birth control measure. Saying that, I grew up just 6 miles from the Mexico border. During the 30’s and 40’s I knew of cases that went to Mexico for back alley abortions, sometimes with fatal results. Thinking about this, I believe that woment who are bound to get abortions should do it in the best medical place possible.
navy1946 on March 14, 2007 at 3:47 PM
Based on the population shift, I don’t think the Spanish ones will do well. It would appear that Latin Americans cherish their children more than we sensitive, cultured Gringos.
I wonder when these cards will be available to other homicidal participants? “Now that you murdered your (parents, brother, sister, girlfriend, deli clerk) know that God still loves you”.
Hening on March 14, 2007 at 3:50 PM
The card could read:
“Odds are you killed a Republican, you did good.”
right2bright on March 14, 2007 at 4:01 PM
Bob's Kid on March 14, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Those wives tales are always trotted out. It is always a back alley, why not a front alley or under a bridge, or on a deserted road? The old “I knew a friend whose niece used a coat hanger, and nearly died” trick. For every coat hanger, ten thousand “I can’t be bothered by my mistakes” abortions.
right2bright on March 14, 2007 at 4:06 PM
In the “Who We Are” section, they state that one of their goals is to:
Either this is bad writing, or they are literally stating that abortion is a normal part of female reproduction. If the latter is the case, isn’t that at odds with the notion that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare“?
What’s especially strange is the notion that abortion is somehow a loss even though the fetus isn’t a person and can be killed with impunity; if the fetus is just a clump of cells, where’s the loss? I can understand an e-card that addresses abortion qua medical procedure, but what’s all this business about loss and transition and God’s forgiveness? It’s as if the sender tacitly admits that abortion isn’t just a morally neutral medical procedure akin to having one’s tonsils removed. Indeed, I first thought that the “loss” card contained an ironic pro-life message; after all, no one sends a “loss” card when one’s tonsils are removed. A “loss” card only makes sense when someone is lost.
Bill Ramey on March 14, 2007 at 4:24 PM
Good call Bill. I like the insight.
Additionally, in the statement you quote, they not only call abortion “normal,” but mention that it is “normal in the reproductive lives of women and girls.”
Is it really supposed to be normal for abortion to be a part of a girl’s “reproductive life?” I certainly hope not.
nailinmyeye on March 14, 2007 at 4:51 PM
How about? –>
“I am against child rape as a means of sexual release. Saying that, I grew up just 6 miles from the Mexico border. During the 30’s and 40’s I knew of people that went to Mexico for child prostition, sometimes with horrific results - death for the pedophile, life-long scarring for the victim, years of imprisonment, etc. Thinking about this, I believe that men who are bound to rape children should do it in the best facility possible.”
Did it make as much sense when I changed a few words?
Hold on - if that was too complex of an anology, let’s just make it closer:
“I am against killing children as a population control measure. Saying that, I grew up just 6 miles from the Mexico border. During the 30’s and 40’s I knew of cases that went to Mexico for to murder their children, and sometimes they got caught; sometimes they even felt bad about it. Thinking about this, I believe that parents who are bound to murder their children should do it in the best medical place possible.”
It’s either wrong, or it isn’t. It’s either a life, or it isn’t. If it’s not, who cares? If it is, the fact that some people are going to take that life anyway, is not exactly a reason to make it legal.
Jesus wept. That logic scares me more than any other.
Professor Blather on March 14, 2007 at 5:11 PM
Just considering the likely target market for these greeting cards, one might surmise that abortion at least arguably keeps the moonbat population down.
SWLiP on March 14, 2007 at 5:31 PM
The religious card is especially an abomination.
Bill, I checked out the “Who We Are” page as well before I read the comments to see who was putting these out.
This card also really got to me:
There are no words to express my sympathy for your loss. As you grieve, remember that you are loved. I am thinking of you.
This was no involuntary miscarriage, this was a “choice” as the pro-choice advocates love to say.
It’s remarkable that they are realizing there’s a grieving process. Maybe next they’ll start to admit the reason behind the grief–the loss of a child.
INC on March 14, 2007 at 6:19 PM
… to HELL!
RedinBlueCounty on March 14, 2007 at 8:24 PM
RedinBlueCounty,
I’m not sure what you meant by your comment. I think abortion is wrong and is the murder of a human being, but I desire no one to go to hell. God offers forgiveness to all who desire it. The ones who desire it are the ones who have realized that they need it and who want to live differently.
These cards make me angry because they act as if God not only has nothing to say about the killing of an unborn child, but condones the practice, and because they offer no consolation for remorse and guilt. In fact, by denying guilt they offer no hope for relief of remorse. You can console someone for their grief in loss, but not for any grief caused by guilt. Forgiveness is the balm for that pain.
INC on March 14, 2007 at 9:38 PM
Welcome back Professor…. haven’t seen you in a while.
Maxx on March 14, 2007 at 9:55 PM
“Bank error in your favor! Collect 10 embrionic stem cells!”
Coronagold on March 14, 2007 at 10:28 PM
I looked up the numbers the other day to find out how many abortions are performed in the United States each year. The number was about 1.6 million abortions in the United States alone, every year, at the current rate. So I did some math and found that averages out to mean over 4,000 abortions every day.
Think of that.
Every day we lose more lives to abortion than all the troops that have died in action in the four years of war in Iraq. Every day we lose more children to abortion than all the people who died on 9/11. How long will God hold his wrath?
Maxx on March 14, 2007 at 10:36 PM
I wish they had a “Too bad you didn’t abort” card that I could send to all parents of liberal morons. Some people have absolutely no morals, none at all. The vast majority of abortions are simply birth control after the fact, nobody has any personal responsibility these days.
NeverSubmit on March 14, 2007 at 11:20 PM
Professor Blather-
Yes you may, with Schrodinger’s blessing!
TBinSTL on March 14, 2007 at 11:58 PM
Holy f*ck!
I don’t know what’s more disturbing, that they are suggesting grief over someone the recipient chose to butcher, or the fact that they are suggesting that you should show sympathy for such a person.
Wolfman on March 15, 2007 at 12:01 AM
Sometimes? Abortion is always fatal for the fetus.
mikeyboss on March 15, 2007 at 12:05 AM
I think this poster’s message was that the people were going to abort, whether we like it or not.
amerpundit on March 15, 2007 at 12:20 AM
Sorry, you’re probably right. I’ve just been attacked countless times on the fact I adopted from China, that it has put me on a permanent state of defense.
It is a valid point. I know many people who are very healthy, financially stable, could be loving parents, but because their over the US age limit, are excluded. Yet, you hear stories about children being adopted out to some people under the limit, and end up abusing them.
amerpundit on March 15, 2007 at 12:24 AM
I especially enjoy the light-hearted happy birthday/congrats on your engagement feel of the illustrtations…real classy
Viewtifulgare on March 16, 2007 at 10:59 AM