Abornaments
Oh, boy: What I just said out loud to myself with head in hands where I sit blogging at the local Panera.
This morning pro-life friend Ed sent a link my way where Christmas abortion ornaments called “abornaments” are being sold. The aborted fetus cookies had nothing on these, which are simply grievous.
I can only show you 2 of the “abornaments” because the others are either too painfully blasphemous or just plain awful.
The abornament above is called “Baby Blues,” with the description:
These Miles Davis wannabes are painted a metallic blue with a gold plastic trumpet. They each measure approximately 2 1/2″ long and hang from a handmade wire coat hanger.
The “Kiss Collection,” seen only at the Abornaments blog, is their creator’s “particular favourite”:
Let’s see Gene Simmons sue us for this one! A collection of dead babies that include the Starchild, the Catman, the Demon and the Spaceman! Each little rockstar hangs from a handmade wire coat hanger.
No surprise: “A portion of Abornament proceeds will be donated to Planned Parenthood.”
The artist relishes negative reaction from pro-lifers, so I expect my post will feed his/her quest for attention. Whatever.
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.
Is there any doubt now that Fr Euteneuer was right, abortion is demonic?
Why are the fetuses doing people-things? It’s as if the artist thinks they’re people.
And Etsy is fine with this?
Carla: Seeing as their rules specify that “Etsy reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason, at any time,” I hope they’ll get rid of this. It’s just hideously offensive.
Jill, I love your blog, but why do you give these people more attention? Also, it’s interesting that this is an Etsy store. There was a major uproar on Etsy’s FB page yesterday because of another shop that many people found extremely offensive. Basically, the seller sells “funny” cards about people who have Down’s Syndrome and victims of rape. Many people want the store removed, but Etsy has not responded.
I’m not Jill, but I think she gives these people more attention to expose the fact that, contrary to what a lot of pro-choicers would have you think, not all pro-choicers are “rational” and “reasonable” (as opposed to the supposedly dogmatic and intolerant pro-lifers).
The other Etsy shop sounds atrocious as well.
OMG. Depravity knows no bounds.
Can I pray that Gene Simmons DOES sue them!!! That’s just sick. All of it.. .sick sick sick
I feel like I may be physically sick. These are awful. This person has some serious issues. I would agree that Etsy should remove these. Also, I’d discourage Jill fan’s from viewing the abornaments blog or responding to him/her. I wouldn’t want to give this monster reinforcement of any kind.
Erin, yes, Marauder has it right. Plus part of my niche is reporting on pop culture as it relates to abortion, including pop pro-abortion culture.
Did a group of pre-schoolers make them? They are the worst, cheapest looking crafts ever (subject matter aside) and they have the nerve to charge 10 bucks for them? Yeah, just want I want on my tree… a vagina!
Pro-choice people are mentally ill.
“The artist relishes negative reaction from pro-lifers, so I expect my post will feed his/her quest for attention. Whatever.”
Well said Jill – I think too often pro-lifers swallow the “reverse psychology bait”, considering themselves above reacting to something offensive – in the knowledge it will feed the agitator’s desire to cause outrage. But sometimes we just need to expose evil, regardless of offence or twisted satisfaction which may occur.
Very ugly and in poor taste. I’m just wondering — why the “artist,” who describes herself as an “atheist Jew, would design ornaments for a holiday she doesn’t celebrate? Sounds like she just wants to p*ss off people, which is rather immature (oh, forgot, the proceeds are going to Planned Parenthood).
I wonder if the artist is post-abortive.
Pro-choice people are mentally ill
We pro-choice folks wonder about the sanity of those anti-choicers who wear fetus pins or necklaces. Talk about tacky bling!
DD,
Don’t you just love these abornaments? Have you bought yours yet? Don’t delay get yours today!! Perfect for holiday giving for that “hard to buy for” friend!!
I’m just kind of surprised that the person doing this actually put the word “born” into what they are calling these things.
I’m just kind of surprised that the person doing this actually put the word “born” into what they are calling these things.
Also, she refers to them as “babies!”
Wait…if they’re trying to support abortion WHY would they have plastic fetuses as “ornaments”?
I mean, if I think about it I can see their sick logic, but when you think about the arguments they give in favor of abortion (“the fetus is not a baby”) and the fact that these plastic fetuses look VERY much like a baby, it doesn’t make any sense.
Strange (not in a good way) and disturbing.
“Pro-choice people are mentally ill.”
That’s what I’m always saying!! And it’s true!
The further a people or nation departs from God, Scripture and Christian practice, the more debauched and depraved it becomes. And the very depravity is turned into a debauched paganistic religious ritual. This is seen in a number of Old Testament Scriptures and is especially outlined in the New Testament Epistle to the Romans, chapter 1:18-32. Verse 32 makes the point that these people know they are doing evil but still take pleasure in their perversity.
DD,
Yes, mentally ill. As in your former, ironic handle “Artemis”, greek goddess of childbirth.
You glory in your turkey baster abortion, and demonstrate the very definition of psychopathology. The “choice” you celebrate is the choosing of murder over love, of despair over hope, of fear over courage.
I understand how many women contract for abortion in an emotionally numbed fog and live to regret it. You are so much worse off than they are, as you not only killed your child by your own hand, but killed your conscience in the process. It is the worst of all mental illnesses that you try and outrun your own human nature, your own conscience by trying to amass more and more similarly situated women about yourself, as though 53 million wrongs could ever make what you have done right.
Then, with a truly distorted flourish, you repeatedly claim to reject Christianity, as though rejecting the source of universal moral norms and human nature could insulate you from your own human nature and your adopted depravity.
Get in touch with Carla and get on the road to recovery soon. She’ll lovingly show you the way home.
Merry Christmas.
I’m sure the creators of these things find the attention amusing. But frankly I don’t find blue baby ornaments with wire hangers running through their heads offensive – it’s a blob of plastic, paint and wire.
What’s offensive you ask? Depends …
Hanging the innocent, tortured Son of God from the tree.
Nails, blood etc. Is that offensive?
Their efforts make a great opportunity to give the gospel.
I’m guessing they might be offended by that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4i-lLuWApI
“Smoking for Two with Cletus the Fetus”
All I have to say is that these ornaments are tacky, distasteful, and show immaturity, whatever your political beliefs may be.
Demonic
Depraved
Deserving of God’s Judgment
ugh.
Ignore this dumbass. (pardon my French, but this is what this is.)
Also, don’t buy anything from Etsy. I won’t. My fiancée had been eying some jewelry for me from a shop there. I’ll be talking to him about it later this evening.
They can go their way, and I will go mine.
DD/Artemis- Very interesting that you are complaining about people wearing pins of scientifically accurate representations of human feet at 10 weeks gestation. I understand that the truth makes you uncomfortable- it’s a sign of unresolved post-abortion grief.
You have two choices when dealing with grief. You can either devote a tremendous amount of time and energy trying to convince yourself it didn’t hurt, it didn’t hurt, it didn’t hurt, and not deal with it directly (thus allowing the pain to fester and come out sideways)
OR you can embrace the truth, grieve, forgive, heal and move on.
I find it interesting that someone who would probably try to argue that a 12 week fetus is not a “BAY-BEEE” has named her “art” using the “B” word. This is a desperate cry for 15 seconds of fame (but she’s ok after her abortion, she really is, or so she keeps telling herself…)
Proof of how low our culture has sunk and how sick it is.
What a dumb Etsy product. I thought they were a classy web site.
What is the nature of the unborn?
(abortion) If it is NOT human then no justification is necessary.
If it IS human then no justification is sufficient.
We don’t kill people for the same reasons in which we justify abortion.
It’s really that simple.
Oh, Etsy sellers should complain!!
I agree with so many of the previous pro life comments. I do think exposing this is good for people to see the REALITY of the pro abortion mindset. They honestly don’t care if the aborted victim is a BABY or not, they will support abortion regardless of the facts. This product truly exposes the depth of EVIL and depravity that our nation and culture has sunk to. Can you imagine 30 years ago when the legalized abortion debate was just starting up ~ ANYONE imagining that abortion would be legal up to birth and that CHRISTmas ornaments like these would be marketed? I am just happy I will be in heaven in another 30 years, but I do pray for my kids/grand kids. It truly is the END TIMES and behold, there will be a JUDGMENT DAY. On that day, I would not want to be these murderers of BABIES.
@ Gerard~ very well written and expressed. AMEN and Merry Christmas.
And…apparently Etsy has a real problem regulating their crap. This is not the only shop that’s hawking B.S. like this. I don’t think I’d ever buy anything from Etsy anyway, and I’m sorry I ever looked at anything there before this. If they all want to bellyache about “Bawww…this isn’t fair to all the other artists…BAAWWWWW!!!” They need to keep a cleaner house. I encourage a boycott at this point. In regards to the other shop which caused the stir previously, other sellers have said something to the effect of “Boycotting all of Etsy because of one shop is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.” I disagree. It looks as though the only way the admins of Etsy are going to get the message is if the collective is hurt en masse. It’s like saying a lake is only polluted on one side and then encouraging people to drink from “the clean side”.
P.S. Here is an alternative to Etsy I found. Haven’t checked it out yet for questionable content, but here ya go:
http://www.artfire.com/
xalisae, to pardon your french, might I point out that he’s your fiance? :) Just a pet peeve of mine when Robert Redford is called blonde. I still remember some of my four years of French.
Now how do I type an accent agou?
We pro-choice folks wonder about the sanity of those anti-choicers who wear fetus pins or necklaces. Talk about tacky bling!
I was at a bead store yesterday, where they had beads in the shape of faces, little kids, firefighters, Santa Claus, all sorts of human figures. Wow, so TACKY.
I’m actually trying to raise money through Etsy for another website I frequent. I think for the moment I’m going to keep it, simply because I don’t want to feel like I got run off a website that’s been useful to me by some depraved weirdos. Opinion subject to change depending on how this whole thing plays out.
Hmmm….an excellent example of the stupidity and immaturity of the pro-abortion movement.
Grrrr. I “report”ed this shop with this message: “There is talk of a site-wide boycott because of sellers of depravity like this. It threatens my business. They are encouraging everyone to visit artfire.com instead. I would rather not move my shop there, but I will if these sorts of things are not addressed. Thanks.”
Prolly won’t do much good. I am a seller on etsy and I agree this is wrong wrong wrong, but it is a shame that others would suffer at the hideousness of others. I kinda view it like, “Muslims/middle easterners crash/bomb planes so EVERYONE else must be molested and fondled before boarding, including little girls…” Not fair, not right.
I think a more pointed targeted approach would make a more specific impact. Like if EVERYONE would click the “report this item” button and write a note threatening boycott and artfire loyalty if the item isn’t removed. How bout that?
I sell on Etsy (rosaries and jewelry). I would not pigeonhole the entire place because of some of the things that are sold there. It is a fantastic and mostly classy marketplace and a source of income for many stay-at-home, work-at-home moms. You can set a filter so mature content will not show up on your searches. While I wish that Etsy would take down some of the more questionable shops, I can understand that it would become difficult for them to start picking and choosing what is “appropriate.”
Why is it that people who think that marching around with 8-foot tall pictures of aborted fetuses in front of schools and churches is totally acceptable and in good taste have such a visceral, negative reaction to these harmless trinkets? If someone puts one of these things on their holiday tree, the only people who have to see it are those invited into their home. I don’t see the problem.
Of course, you don’t, Joan.
People holding up mangled bodies of dead babies are showing us the horror of abortion.
These “ornaments” are disrespectful, tasteless, and callous. They serve no purpose except to “celebrate” the death of babies, and make it “funny.” How even YOU, Joan, can’t see that is beyond me.
How do you know that they serve no purpose? These things look like a political or social statement to me. I don’t see how that is any less valid than people using pictures of the same thing to make a different political or social statement.
Wow Joan… are you really this blind to what this represents?
I will repost what Cassie wrote earlier, as it says it all:
What is the nature of the unborn?
(abortion) If it is NOT human then no justification is necessary.
If it IS human then no justification is sufficient.
We don’t kill people for the same reasons in which we justify abortion.
It’s really that simple.
Gerard:
Thanks for the perspective on DD (Artemis?). We have tried a number of times to engage DD in real dialog, but always for naught. DD does not bring a reasoned background (such as a strictly legal perspective) to the discussion. It is all opinion… as if to say: “I think it therefore it is fact and everyone else is either stupid or just plain ignorant”. So many libs and choicers seem to be afflicted with this exalted opinion of themselves and the crude denunciation of all who disagree with them.
Someone said that “liberalism is a mental disorder”. When I first heard that I thought it was a bit harsh, but the more one reads and sees of the mess libs have made of things the more credence that saying has.
Wow… how can there be such evil in a person? Truly demonic. Just like anyone who supports abortion. Absolutely demonic! How can anyone find this amusing? Twisted and repulsive people. God is watching though. Don’t they realize that abortion is the brutal killing… -murder of innocent children?? Why is it so difficult for them to admit it and to respect the sanctity of LIFE?? They will one day realize it and hopefully for them and their souls it won’t be too late. My prayers for these disturbed, demonic people.
Very well said, Dr. Nadal!
And not one proabort finds these repulsive. Go figure.
Carla,
It’s one thing to have an abortion when unexpectedly pregnant and in fight or flight mode, where reason is clouded. It’s something altogether different to decide to become a cheerleader and pick up the pom poms.
That requires a serious and sustained effort at deconstructing the human conscience that is innate. It points to something very dark that has gripped the person’s soul, such that trinkets such as abornaments become little sacraments—outward signs that reflect inner realities.
We just need to remember them in our prayers this Christmas.
Merry Christmas to all of the Streams from the Nadals!
Jerry
December 23rd, 2010 at 5:04 pm
So many libs and choicers seem to be afflicted with this exalted opinion of themselves and the crude denunciation of all who disagree with them.
I have a hobby that is predominantly shared by liberals, so I get to hear the political rants and ideas fairly frequently. For me this does two things. One, it gets me out of my echo chamber. Two, it shows me what liberals act like in theirs. And that’s a really interesting view, because I’ve realized that the vast majority of liberals never even try to get out of the echo chamber. All they hear, all the time, are people who agree with them. About virtually everything. And of course there are exceptions, I know some exceptions, but never hearing a single dissenting opinion seems to be the prevailing mode. Thus, the idea that there are people out there who disagree with them is virtually unthinkable, and everyone who does must be an idiot. And this conclusion is self-reinforcing, since most people who do disagree have better things to do than argue with a bunch of folks who aren’t going to listen very well anyway.
Thus…Artemis.
And that’s a really interesting view, because I’ve realized that the vast majority of liberals never even try to get out of the echo chamber. All they hear, all the time, are people who agree with them. About virtually everything.
This is true in my experience also. I’ve heard liberals gasp upon hearing relatively common points of view on different issues, simply because that point of view never made it into their little bubble. A lot of them are actually pretty sheltered.
Bingo, Alice!
Merry Christmas to all!!
Moderation in all things, especially moderation!
“And not one proabort finds these repulsive. Go figure.”
Sort of like how not a single anti-choicer finds the huge pictures of aborted fetuses favored by many “protesters” repulsive. Materially speaking, there’s not much of a difference. In fact, the pictures are arguably worse because they are far more graphic. So explain to me why these are so unacceptable but standing in front of a church or school with an 8-foot-tall picture of an aborted fetus is just fine?
“In fact, the pictures are arguably worse because they are far more graphic.”
If an unborn human is really nothing more than a “sack of cells”, as you all are so fond of characterizing them, then those pictures should be morally-neutral, right? Put your money where your mouth is.
I didn’t say anything about the morality of the pictures, did I? The point is that they are graphic. Visually unpleasant, in the same way that a picture of a bloody spleen that has been removed is graphic and would be inappropriate to parade around in public in order to make some kind of stupid political statement.
Joan,
Sometimes the TRUTH just isn’t pretty. I would say that the majority of anti-aborts are NOT in favor of showing large placards of aborted fetuses in front of schools and churches. That probably happens infrequently in more rural areas where the most traffic would see them. In larger cities and suburbs, the protests are near clinics and on major streets and highways.
It’s liberals who have turned abortion into a political issue. Look at the democrats today…only the pro-abort ones survive. It’s sad that dems can’t see past promoting abortion “rights” and deal with the real political issues in an intelligent way. But that’s a subject for another thread.
Joan,
It’s time to celebrate Christmas. Have a merry one!
“I didn’t say anything about the morality of the pictures, did I? The point is that they are graphic. Visually unpleasant, in the same way that a picture of a bloody spleen that has been removed is graphic and would be inappropriate to parade around in public in order to make some kind of stupid political statement.”
Well, this is where we disagee, apparently. When I was a youngster, around 5th or 6th grade, I used to eat my saturday morning breakfast while I watched The Operation on TLC because I was fascinated by the medical field. Now, if my daughter wanted to watch The Operation, or saw a picture of a spleen that had been removed, I wouldn’t have any problem with it, as it’s not difficult when she says, “Mom, what’s that?” to explain to her “Oh, well, they’re replacing that man’s shoulder socket.” or “Oh, well, that’s a removed spleen.” She also knows what abortion is, and the attitude is MUCH different. Deep down, you all KNOW what is going on here, and THAT is why you think it is so “graphic”. The taking of human life tends to be.
Joan,
I’m glad your mother saw things differently than does her daughter. We’ve crossed swords aplenty, but I’m genuinely glad that you are with us and not in the statistics column.
God Bless and Merry Christmas!
Yeah. I should wrap it up for the holiday as well. Merry Christmas, and God bless us, everyone.
Fair enough. In the Christmas spirit, I’ll just conclude this thread by wishing you all a happy holidays too.
I took a cruise through estys site. I couldn’t even see trailor trash shopping there. They sell junk.
My point? What kind of person would actually purchase that garbage?
Alice:
Thanks for sharing your experience. I have noticed the same things. In order to have a balanced view, a view that is intellectually honest and informed, one must necessarily move beyond his or her comfort zone. After being indoctrinated in gov regulated curriculum many of our fellow citizens apparently never step out of the bubble and accept the MSM take on things as gospel.
joan,
When pro-life people display pictures of aborted fetuse it is to draw attention to the tragedy of abortion. Whereas these abornaments are being hung on Christmas trees to blaspheme against Christianity.
Hi Jerry,
I’ve realized that the vast majority of liberals never even try to get out of the echo chamber. All they hear, all the time, are people who agree with them. About virtually everything. And of course there are exceptions, I know some exceptions, but never hearing a single dissenting opinion seems to be the prevailing mode. Thus, the idea that there are people out there who disagree with them is virtually unthinkable, and everyone who does must be an idiot. And this conclusion is self-reinforcing, since most people who do disagree have better things to do than argue with a bunch of folks who aren’t going to listen very well anyway.
This is really just human nature, and it shows in many conservatives too. There is plenty of preaching to the choir and “rah-rah” stuff, “amen choruses,” etc., on pro-life sites, Jill’s being no different, and I think Jill’s is one of the best – it’s certainly the best one I know.
I don’t post or read on any pro-choice sites because I like to argue, and it’s much more interesting to get down to the unprovable assumptions we all make, rather than just have people agree with you.
Doug
Doug:
The quoted comment was Alice. But I do agree with her.