Bad check?
Pro-lifer Lynne emailed me last week:
For many years, I have had the same logo on my personal checks. I’m sure you are familiar with it. It features the outline of an unborn child with the words, “Abortion kills babies, choose Life.”
Recently I reordered checks and my order was filled minus the logo. I assumed this was a mistake but when I called customer service to inquire, I was put on hold for a long time. The service rep returned and very brusquely informed me that my logo was “too graphic” and the company refused to print it.
Here’s the logo Lynne wanted renewed (click to enlarge):
Lynne and I were ready to rumble. But before going live with the story this morning, I asked her to call the company one more time, to get a representative’s name and exact quote….
She responded:
This service rep I spoke with today was extremely helpful and verified that my logo had been dropped from the check line-up for no apparent reason. He did say, however, that there were several others very similar and proceeded to describe them to me in detail (and sent me an order of free checks in a design similar to my old one).
I told this man of my previous conversation 3 weeks ago and the description of my logo as being “too graphic.” He checked with both his manager and the marketing department and said this simply was not true. Apparently the service rep I dealt with 3 weeks ago was not sympathetic to the pro-life cause and acted accordingly.
So all’s well that ends well, and I’m just posting this to remind pro-lifers to remain respectfully assertive in the face of hostility to our cause, which is pretty much everywhere. Smart management at this check company responded well to the potential PR nightmare.
Also, if you don’t have one, get a pro-life logo on your checks! You never know who you’ll educate (or encourage!).
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.
this is one example of how we prolifers cannot let the culture of death attitude overtake us even in the small things.
“too graphic”…hmm, which part was that. The cute little baby clipart, or the word “abortion”?
A happy ending. Cool.
It’s a good thing for that company that they decided to work with her and that it worked out… Did she get the service rep’s name?
“ready for bear”? I’ve never heard that phrase before. You mean “ready for a fight”?
Bethany…I think the word “Kill” + the pic of a baby in-utero was too graphic…
The pro-abort service rep can’t handle the truth.
“ready for bear”? I’ve never heard that phrase before. You mean “ready for a fight”?
Posted by: Janet at June 22, 2009 1:26 PM
I’ve heard it as “armed for bear,” and I think it means armed and ready for a substantial fight. i.e., taking it seriously and not fooling around.
I am glad for the “misunderstanding” and happy ending but I am the skeptic. I think when this was approached again, they smelled bad publicity and backed off. What if she just accepted their first statement and did not follow through……
Haha… maybe I should have written, “armed for bear.” Changed to, “ready to rumble.”
Bethany, Lynne didn’t get the first rep’s name, which was one reason she called back today.
Jill,
For the record…. I think you were right with “ready for bear”, I “googled” and found “loaded and ready for bear”. It’s a hunting phrase.
Hal,
Thank you; “armed for bear” makes sense too. The things we learn!
Hal
I hope you had a happy Father’s Day with your children. :)
Hal
I hope you had a happy Father’s Day with your children. :)
Posted by: Janet at June 22, 2009 3:44 PM
I sure did, thank you.
My son has a T-shirt with a guy with hairy bear arms and the logo says, “The right to bear arms”…get it?
HisMan,
Got it. :) A chip off the old block.
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There seems to be a theme here. Here’s some bad bear jokes:
A polar bear goes into a bar and says, “May I have a gin . . . . . . . and . . . . . . . . tonic, please?”
The barman begins to serve him but asks, “Why the large pause?” The polar bear says, “Don’t know; I’ve always had them!”
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A bear walks into a bar, sits down, and orders a beer. The bartender, amazed that this bear can actually talk, silently gives him a beer.
“Thanks,” the bear says. “What do I owe you?”
The bartender stops and thinks for a moment. Even though this bear is smart, he thinks, he probably hasn’t been in many bars. So the bartender says, “That’ll be ten dollars.” The bear forks over the money and starts drinking his beer.
After a few minutes, the bartender gives in to his curiosity and walks back over to the bear.
“You know, we don’t get many bears in this bar.”
The bear looks up from his beer and says, “Well, at ten bucks a beer, I’m not surprised.”
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Campaigns to bear-proof all garbage containers in wild areas have been difficult because, as one biologist put it, “There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence levels of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
I don’t have the logo on my checks, but I have the address labels courtesy of Priests For Life that states:”Abortion Harms Women”.
My husband doesn’t like that I use them.
Good to hear, carder. Sorry your husband doesn’t agree.
Actually, I think it’s time to change that to: “Abortion Harms Women and Men” since so many men suffer silently about it as well.
I found a low-cost place to order checks, and I have been very happy with them – service and everything. They are a Christian company called “Promise Checks.” I looked, and they have one style called “Protect Life.” It would be pretty safe to guess that they will not have an employee giving you a hard time for a Biblically based check style.