YouTube unbans ALL video
A month ago I posted American Life League’s new video, which it had posted on YouTube, spotlighting Planned Parenthood’s new “Mile High” ad as well as other PP best of’s.
On February 11, ALL got notice YouTube had yanked its video for its “inappropriate nature.”
But get this. YouTube did not yank PP’s original “Mile High” ad.
Now, thanks to the pro-life community’s outrage about YouTube’s obvious viewpoint discrimination, it reinstated ALL’s video yesterday, apologizing in an email there had been a “technical malfunction.”
Not true. YouTube’s guidelines state, “If we remove your video after reviewing it, you can assume that we removed it purposefully, and you should take our warning notification seriously.”
So YouTube was unfairly censoring and just got caught.
And now, back by demands for fairness, ALL’s Planned Parenthood Sells Sex video:
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Wohoo for freedom of speech.
“Reaganites for Obama?Sorry, McCain. Barack Obama is a natural for the Catholic vote.”
http://www.slate.com/id/2184378/
You know, everyone can just not have sex then we wouldn’t have to worry about STD’s and abortion. Set a good example all you anti-PP youngsters and wait till marriage.
Amen, Jess! Way to hit the nail on the head!
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/02/15/funny-pictures-teen-cat-tri-pot/
You’ve gotta give the exec’s at YouTube credit for doing the right thing. I wish all exec’s would do that when they make mistakes.
I also admire YouTube exec’s backbones, and that they didn’t lose them (finally) to the demands of PP. It’s nice to see a company not backing down to PP.
Neither is inappropriate. WTF is with you weirdoes and your retarded “OMG PP IS SATAN!” and “SAFE SEX IS GOOD!” statements. STFU already.
Gray,
Stick around and we’ll give you all the details!
“Neither is inappropriate. WTF is with you weirdoes and your retarded “OMG PP IS SATAN!” and “SAFE SEX IS GOOD!” statements.”
So you’re for Planed Parenthood and against safe sex? Are you drunk?
BTW Gary you’re a man aren’t you?
Hahahahaha. That video is hilarious. OMG OMG OMG!!!! SEX BAD SEX BAD SEX BAD!!!! CONDOMS BAD CONDOMS BAD CONDOMS BAD!!!!
I’m a-guessing that the only people taking that Jack Chick-style propaganda seriously are the major wingers. And…good luck selling Victorianism to modern America.
Lol, I kind of thought it was funny too. The commentator just had a weird way of delivery.
You know, everyone can just not have sex then we wouldn’t have to worry about STD’s and abortion. Set a good example all you anti-PP youngsters and wait till marriage.
Jess, maybe the problem is that people are not getting married early enough in life. Should we arrange marriages to coincide with the time at which a person becomes sexually active?
So you’re for Planed Parenthood and against safe sex? Are you drunk?
Jess, perhaps they are a bit prudish about safe sex, and a mite skittish about parenthood, and maybe they’ve have a couple, yeah, but where does the Carpenter’s union come into it?
Maybe we should encourage masturbation? I’ve been masturbating since I was 11 and I’m doing fine. Kept myself from having sex till I was 18. I was saying if people think PP is a bad influence then they should practice what they preach and remain abstinate till marriage.
“Jess, perhaps they are a bit prudish about safe sex, and a mite skittish about parenthood, and maybe they’ve have a couple, yeah, but where does the Carpenter’s union come into it?”
Huh?
If you’re not having sex you’re not practicing safe sex. Because it’s just not sex.
Jess, maybe the problem is that people are not getting married early enough in life. Should we arrange marriages to coincide with the time at which a person becomes sexually active?
Posted by: Doug at February 15, 2008 1:56 PM
That had been the practice for thousands of years. Families were close knit, and celebrated emerging sexuality with dignity for men, women and children: Marriage.
Doug,
Are you against marriage for young people? You aren’t against sex out of marriage or birth control or abortion, none of which is as healthy as marriage.
What is so bad about love, commitment and marriage?
Millions upon millions of teens used to marry and were happy and their families were happy for them. Why not let them marry? Why not encourage teens to wait till marriage even if they only wait till they are 16 or 17? It is not like they are deranged or something. They are people like everyone else. They are not so stupid they can’t be successful.
I don’t think you can know who will be a good partner for marriage until you know yourself.
Jess (2:05),
Did you forget this is a daytime blog?
Jess,
You crack me up! I truly admire your honesty. You’re the best!
:)
In the early 80’s I had recently moved to a new state. I had been on the pill only to keep my cycle regular. Knowing I could get the pill at PP, I went to a clinic. They would not let me have the precription unless I took some condoms. 30 of them!!!! to last me a month!!! Even though I had explained that I was not only had a just been through a very bad divorce, I was new there, did not know anyone and was not the type for a one-night stand. When I went back after a month they gave me another 30. What kind of a message is this sending? How much more of a waste of our tax money is this?
Maybe we should encourage masturbation? I’ve been masturbating since I was 11 and I’m doing fine. Kept myself from having sex till I was 18.
Speaking of masturbation, did you all read that the Texas ban on sex toys has been overturned? Nifty :-)
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/02/14/0214sextoys.html
Millions upon millions of teens used to marry and were happy and their families were happy for them. Why not let them marry? Why not encourage teens to wait till marriage even if they only wait till they are 16 or 17? It is not like they are deranged or something. They are people like everyone else. They are not so stupid they can’t be successful.
Posted by: hippie at February 15, 2008 2:13 PM
I’ve got nothing against love, commitment, or marriage, but encouraging 16 or 17 year olds to get married? Uh, no thanks. How about we educate them on all their options, and allow them to choose their own paths in life?
What’s so bad about letting people make an educated decision to follow the path they feel called to without pressuring them to do what we think is right for them?
What’s so bad about letting people make an educated decision to follow the path they feel called to without pressuring them to do what we think is right for them?
Posted by: Hieronymous at February 15, 2008 2:45 PM
Uh, isn’t that what I just said?
Why all the pressure not to get married just because you are young. Society pressures teens not to get pregnant because we think we know what is best for them and then pressure them to abort. We know that all birth control can fail, just like marriages can fail. However teaching teens that they need to safeguard their emotional and psychological health seems to be ignored when you actively discourage people from marrying. Who are you to tell them not to marry? Why are you against marriage?
I don’t think you can know who will be a good partner for marriage until you know yourself.
Posted by: Jess at February 15, 2008 2:15 PM
Who are you to say that teens don’t know themselves?
They aren’t stupid.
Most teens don’t want to marry, but some do.
What if 3% of teens want to marry? Is that so horrible?
If my son is still in high school and wants to marry, I will let him and buy him a house and his wife a car and give them all the love and support I can and treat them like the responsible adults they are.
Hippie- one really good reason is that full emotional maturity isn’t present until the mid to late 20’s. People who marry so young are depriving themselves of chances to fully mature and therefore they often change much more than a couple who gets married later in life.
Considering the d*ldo we have now and had before as governor, I never could undrstand the ban in the first place …
“Jess (2:05),
Did you forget this is a daytime blog?”
I actually never knew. Sorry I’ll tone it down.
And there is nothing wrong with two people who truly love each other getting married. But things are much different then 100 years ago. If everyone was born and died in small towns, spent all their lives in their towns, farming and housekeeping I would say it’s best for everyone.
So you’re for Planed Parenthood and against safe sex? Are you drunk?
“Jess, perhaps they are a bit prudish about safe sex, and a mite skittish about parenthood, and maybe they’ve have a couple, yeah, but where does the Carpenter’s union come into it?”
Huh?
“Planed” as in carpentry. Uck uck uck uck uck. (Popeye laugh.)
full emotional maturity isn’t present until the mid to late 20’s.
Erin, you ought to see some of the guys I work with. 20’s, yes, but also 30’s, 40’s, hell – 60’s….
Anyway, a woman once told me that “All men are kids.”
Doug
Hippie- one really good reason is that full emotional maturity isn’t present until the mid to late 20’s. People who marry so young are depriving themselves of chances to fully mature and therefore they often change much more than a couple who gets married later in life.
Posted by: Erin at February 15, 2008 3:13 PM
My brother calls this, “I think therefore it is true”
In fact, people grow and change their whole lives.
My husband’s parents got married in 1959.
They were both 30 years old. After 20 some odd years, his dad divorced his mom.
Meanwhile plenty of folks who married as teens are celebrating 50 year wedding anniversaries.
There are no guarantees in life.
Teens should decide for themselves when they are ready and not have people discouraging them from marrying if they want to.
Society won’t fall apart if 3% of high school students get married before they graduate.
Anyway, a woman once told me that “All men are kids.”
Doug
Posted by: Doug at February 15, 2008 3:53 PM
I hear people say this sometimes and really get a kick out of it.
I think my husband was born old.
After we got married, we were having a discussion and he said, “I have a house to pay for and a wife to raise” because he thought I was so childish. I had to laugh because there was some truth to it. I was childish sometimes. Even so were together 19 years.
Are you against marriage for young people? You aren’t against sex out of marriage or birth control or abortion, none of which is as healthy as marriage.
Hippie, marriage isn’t necessarily healthy. No, I’m really not against marriage for young people, although these days puberty is coming in like at 10, 11, and 12 years for so many that that does seem too young to me.
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What is so bad about love, commitment and marriage?
Nuttin’, o’ course. Yet I think it’s hard to know oneself and one’s partner well enough to really be sure, and that it’s doubly and trebly hard in the teenage years, versus later on.
I think people really should be sure about stuff like this. Even when sure, it doesn’t always work out, so at the least I say don’t go into it being conflicted or with doubts. Same for having kids.
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Millions upon millions of teens used to marry and were happy and their families were happy for them. Why not let them marry? Why not encourage teens to wait till marriage even if they only wait till they are 16 or 17? It is not like they are deranged or something. They are people like everyone else. They are not so stupid they can’t be successful.
I waited until I was 41 to get married, and thank goodness. Not saying people should necessarily wait that long, not at all, but I do think that there is value in being an adult and living one’s life without being tied down, so to speak. Again, not for everybody, but I’d bet that marriages between 16 and 17 year olds have a lesser success rate than among those in their mid or late 20’s, for example, going with what Erin said.
I also have nothing against encouraging kids to wait to have sex, either until they’re married or until they’re just older. They may not remain celibate until marriage, and no big deal in my book (although the point about STD’s remains), but I do see value in waiting until later than the early teens, anyway.
I’d say that millions upon millions of teens used to marry and were not happy, as well. It’s easy to romanticize the past, like the “good old days” of the 1950s and before, but often they really weren’t all that great.
Doug
Sorry I’ll tone it down.
Ah Jess, too bad…. I know there’s a limit, but it’s fun to just rock and roll. It’d be nice if there was a chatroom where we could all just let fly.
Doug
Hippie,
That’s the opposite of my boyfriend and I. I’m always thinking about how my actions now will affect me in the future. I just think I’m more down to Earth and realistic.
Hippie- one really good reason is that full emotional maturity isn’t present until the mid to late 20’s. People who marry so young are depriving themselves of chances to fully mature and therefore they often change much more than a couple who gets married later in life.
Wouldn’t this be a good reason to delay sexual activity as well as marriage, Erin?
Hippie, I hear you – men can be “old,” in ways too.
For my wife and me, I’m the “adult” when it comes to finances. Most other places, she can look at me and say, “You’re SUCH a child…”
And she has said just that heh heh heh.
Doug,
If my last roommate asked me to marry her I would. She was the only person who really understood what I was about and didn’t judge me. I miss her :’ (
Society won’t fall apart if 3% of high school students get married before they graduate.
Definitely not, Hippie. Yet for a given person, I’d say the chances of successful marriage will be greater if they wait. One learns about themself and others as they go along.
I think first marriages fail more often than second ones do, and I’d say it’s due to people learning and not making the same mistakes over as well as being older and more knowledgeable about things.
Jess, do you stay in contact with that roommate? I made a couple good friends back in college and in my early years of work, the 1970’s, and we still see each other and have fun once in a while.
There’s even a guy who was in the same 2nd grade class as me way back when…
Yes I do Doug and I hope she comes back next semester. She lost her loans because she skipped a semester to work.
I occasionally talk to a few kids who were in my kindergarten in Catholic school.
No Oprah tickets, horrible evolution test :(
Dude, this guy is a great lecturer, but his tests are like, “here are 3 correct answers and one correct answer but pick the “best” (i.e. the one I think you should pick.) WTF dude?
Then it’s mostly a trivia test. 2 questions over a tooth disease that’s a paragraph in the book and 1 question over AIDS, which we spent 2 1/2 days discussing. I knew this stuff like the back of my hand and still the test confused me. Again WTF.
I am so bored, I could die…
Uh, isn’t that what I just said?
Why all the pressure not to get married just because you are young. Society pressures teens not to get pregnant because we think we know what is best for them and then pressure them to abort. We know that all birth control can fail, just like marriages can fail. However teaching teens that they need to safeguard their emotional and psychological health seems to be ignored when you actively discourage people from marrying. Who are you to tell them not to marry? Why are you against marriage?
Posted by: hippie at February 15, 2008 3:06 PM
Ooops, I did misread your earlier post. I thought you were saying that we should encourage teenagers to get married if they wanted to have sex.
I’m not against marriage. I’m just against the idea that sex must be the exclusive domain of married people. That’s just silly.
New ALL video
On the heels of its victory over YouTube censorship, American Life League today released a new video, “Planned Parenthood kills for profit.” PP has energized its streamlined its enterprise to become a more lean, mean, killing machine….
The thread that this picture was from was dropped, but he had responded to an email that I sent him apologizing for posting it without permission.
Talk about irony…lol
Lauras’ post:
I just want to know who the artist is so that I can avoid him.
That piece is more than a little disturbing.
The kitty is cute.
Posted by: FetusFascist at February 15, 2008 7:27 AM
Mr. Ledbetters’ response:
I am happy to point out that this image was NOT used with my permission and that I disagree strongly with the points of view expressed in this blog.
To Laura (aka-Fetus Fascist), your chosen name says it all. I hope that your take on the world goes the way of the other Fascists throughout history. If you chose to take your feeble mind out of your bottom and really look at what I am expressing in my work, you might find that it speaks to an all-too-familiar condition which is pervasive in the culture of fear exacerbated by your likely chosen president.
Frankly, I am glad that you do not like it.
It shows me that I am on the right track.
Posted by: Charlie Ledbetter at February 15, 2008 1:50 PM
Laura,
I’m sorry girl. I know your were only saying the painting was disturbing, which it was and apparently was meant to be, but you gotta admit, it was funny.
Not only was it ironic that Laura is pro choice, but how about the fact that the very thing Mr. Ledbetter accuses us (the prolife side) of doing, he turns around and does himself.
Anyway, no hard feelings, as the original mistake was mine…Mr. Ledbetter was a good sport.
For the record the picture, called “Spilled Milk” was in response to the bombings in the underground tube in England. I chose the picture because it moved me. It made me think of the number one reason women give for having abortions. That the pregnancy was an “accident”.
I’d say that millions upon millions of teens used to marry and were not happy, as well. It’s easy to romanticize the past, like the “good old days” of the 1950s and before, but often they really weren’t all that great.
Doug
Posted by: Doug at February 15, 2008 4:04 PM
I don’t believe there were good old days. I think the same number of people then were in love as at any other time.
Back then, people acted like you were a loser if you didn’t marry young. I think that is ridiculous and unhealthy.
Now people act like if you are a loser if you do marry young. That is equally ridiculous.
I mean we are talking about the same species here.
I believe in the bell curve, most people marry in their 20’s or 30’s and a small percentage first marry in their teens or at the other end of the spectrum in their 40’s 50’s etc.
Overall, young people have good judgement.
Overall young people have good judgement that is why we let them vote, drive, and own and use firearms, and serve in the military.
Certainly they can be trusted with their own private affairs.
I’m not against marriage. I’m just against the idea that sex must be the exclusive domain of married people. That’s just silly.
Posted by: Hieronymous at February 15, 2008 4:50 PM
I am not sure I follow what you are saying.
Do you mean you don’t care if your husband/wife has sex outside of your marriage?
Not only was it ironic that Laura is pro choice, but how about the fact that the very thing Mr. Ledbetter accuses us (the prolife side) of doing, he turns around and does himself.
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I like it that he accuses me of choosing fear-mongering George Bush as President.
Oh yeah, Mr. Ledbetter! You’ve got me pegged!
Laura,
I laughed til tears ran…but it does go to show how both sides can be judgmental and jump to conclusions.
I’ve often said that I’d love you on our side! What a team you and I would make! Maybe he knows something we don’t know.
Thanks for taking my ribbing so well. You’re a good sport.
;) You’re name says it all…(snicker)
Pip,
I hate teachers who do their tests like that. It effing pisses me off. Thankfully, I don’t think my bio teacher this semester will be like that..he said all his tests are multiple choice and we get to take the essay parts home. I think that’s what he said at least..it’s at night and I’m tired by then so I could have been mistaken. But he’s a pretty rockin’ teacher anyway.
Now people act like if you are a loser if you do marry young. That is equally ridiculous. I mean we are talking about the same species here.
Hippie, you are a nice person, and you’re right, there.
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I believe in the bell curve, most people marry in their 20’s or 30’s and a small percentage first marry in their teens or at the other end of the spectrum in their 40’s 50’s etc.
Overall, young people have good judgement.
I do know that people in the US are marrying quite a bit later, on average, than what used to be the case.
When it comes to drugs, drinking, and relationships, I don’t think that young people have that good a judgment.
I am not sure I follow what you are saying.
Do you mean you don’t care if your husband/wife has sex outside of your marriage?
Posted by: hippie at February 15, 2008 7:19 PM
That’s funny. No, that’s not what I’m saying at all. I object to people who think that only married folks are allowed to have sex, and/or that in order to have sex, one must be married.
When it comes to drugs, drinking, and relationships, I don’t think that young people have that good a judgment.
Agreed, Doug.
Teen Marriage:
Statistics
According to “Teenage Couples: Caring, Change, and Commitment”, by Jeanne Warren Lindsay:
More than 60% of teenage marriages fail within 5 years.
Eleanor H. Ayer’s writes in her book, Teen Marriage, that:
“A girl married at 17 is twice as likely to be divorced as a girl 18 or 19. If a girl waits until she is 25 the chances that her marriage will last are 4 times better. Saying No to your partner as a teenager does not mean saying No forever. Why start out with the odds against you?”
Why are teens not capable of making a decision such as marriage, in your eyes, yet they are capable of making a decision such as abortion?
Marriage is a much bigger thing than abortion.
More than 60% of teenage marriages fail within 5 years.
Laura, not surprising at all to me, especially since it’s over 50% of all first marriages that end in divorce.
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“A girl married at 17 is twice as likely to be divorced as a girl 18 or 19.
Damn! Amazing that the one year makes such a difference.
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If a girl waits until she is 25 the chances that her marriage will last are 4 times better. Saying No to your partner as a teenager does not mean saying No forever. Why start out with the odds against you?”
I’m certainly not saying “Don’t let teens get married,” but IMO two people knowing themselves and their partners well enough at that age is a rarity.
Personally, for me it’s “thank goodness” I didn’t get married in my teens or even 20s.
Why are teens not capable of making a decision such as marriage, in your eyes, yet they are capable of making a decision such as abortion?
Posted by: Bethany at February 16, 2008 8:45 PM
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Why are teens capable of making a decision to marry and incapable of making a decision whether or not to gestate, in your eyes?
Sally, answer my question then I’ll answer yours.
Hal:12:52
Yes, Marriage creates, abortion destroys.
Sally, answer my question then I’ll answer yours.
Posted by: Bethany at February 17, 2008 4:14 PM
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I think teens are capable of making both the decision whether to marry or not and whether to gestate or not. Whether or not others agree with those decisions is another matter and redundant. I have no problem helping support young women that choose to gestate or choose to abort.
Your turn.
Hal:12:52
Yes, Marriage creates, abortion destroys.
Posted by: Janet at February 17, 2008 4:49 PM
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Agreed! Marriage can create abject misery. Abortion can destroy being trapped in abject misery.
Why are teens capable of making a decision to marry and incapable of making a decision whether or not to gestate, in your eyes?
They are capable of both, absolutely. Abortion doesn’t have anything to do with “gestating”. It has to do with killing what you have already begun “gestating”.
Absolutely, I think all teens are capable of making the decision not to have sex unless they are ready to “gestate”.
Why are teens capable of making a decision to marry and incapable of making a decision whether or not to gestate, in your eyes?
They are capable of both, absolutely. Abortion doesn’t have anything to do with “gestating”. It has to do with killing what you have already begun “gestating”.
Absolutely, I think all teens are capable of making the decision not to have sex unless they are ready to “gestate”.
Posted by: Bethany at February 18, 2008 9:15 AM
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A married teen must be willing to gestate or forego sex? Says who? You?
No…biology.
No…biology.
Posted by: Bethany at February 18, 2008 7:38 PM
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Biology is a field of scientific study. It isn’t capable of making decisions. You know very well that your body is perfectly capable of ‘saying no’ to pregnancy. Too bad that you feel that you must be at the mercy of your ‘biology’.
Biology is a field of scientific study. It isn’t capable of making decisions. You know very well that your body is perfectly capable of ‘saying no’ to pregnancy. Too bad that you feel that you must be at the mercy of your ‘biology’.
It’s simply basic biology that if you have sex, you can get pregnant. Sorry, Sally.