Anyways, among the other reactions it elicited from me, the article reminded me of a billboard I saw at Young-Dundas Square around January this year. An ad so effecting that I believe it is still worth blogging about over six months later...
WON'T SOMEONE PLEEEEASE THINK OF THE TOYS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
The thing is that the ad really focuses attention on the weakness of the anti-choice position. Because it forces you to think, "Wait, if those children were never born, then the toys never had them to play with in the first place, so how is that 'fewer'?" They didn't lose playmates, but potential playmates.
Abortion does not entail the loss of life, but the loss of potential life.
Oh Jeebus. I've actually seen a more nincompoop-y ad. Are you ready? This one said, "Your OVARIES might not want to give birth again. This might have been your only chance". Because *OBVIOUSLY* a woman without a set of fully functional nether tubes is precisely -- not at all -- a woman. You can go puke now.
ReplyDeleteGood post :)
... of course, your ovaries are sentient and have desires and aspirations separate from your own.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading :)
From what I've gathered from the anti-choice crowd, apparently everything is sentient, except women.
ReplyDeleteIncluding toys, apparently.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought upon seeing that billboard? "So Toy Story is true, huh? Hmm..." Probably not the reaction they were hoping for, heh.
ReplyDeleteSee? Look what you did! You made the darned toy soldier cry! Are you happy now, you... you woman!?
ReplyDeleteThat ad is hilarious. I cannot stop laughing.
I remember a particular favorite that said:
ReplyDelete"WHAT! Embryos are babies!"
I just dug around and I found my post on it, if you want to see the image in all its glory.
http://theczech.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/kansas-women-seeking-abortion-may-be-required-to-listen-to-fetal-heartbeat/
I like the childish-looking font. It's like they're talking to children!
ReplyDelete"Abortion does not entail the loss of life, but the loss of potential life. "
ReplyDeleteAbortion is loss of life. Embryos, fetuses are alive animals.
That is why churches reject voluntary abortion.
ReplyDelete@Nemo
ReplyDeleteI say "potential" because there are so many possible intervening factors that could result in the termination of the pregnancy. And because that is the reasoning that the billboard leads you to.
But...nobody would give a toy soldier to a newborn baby anyway. It's a choking hazard. So really, abortions aren't limiting the toy's 'playmates' this year, but more like five years from now.
ReplyDeleteOr am I missing the point?
I bet the Niagara Region Right To Life are all for the death penalty.
ReplyDeleteSo no contradiction/hypocrisy there, nosiree! [/sarcasm]
@Nemo, bacteria, parasites, and viruses are also living. By the standards that you set forth, are you trying to argue that if you acquire an otherwise treatable disease, you shouldn't take whatever medicines or undergo whatever surgical procedures that could help cure you?
ReplyDeleteThe point was 100 000 this year in Ontario alone.
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