Pro-life vid of day: NARAL lauds 40 years of… hairstyle changes?
by LauraLoo
Reported by Kristi Burton Brown at Live Action:
What’s odd about the video itself is that, other than small snippets of voice-over about abortion and women, there’s no real connection between the women featured and the choice of abortion. Instead, the video is rather flippant, attempting to portray “choice” as something really easy, common, and rather everyday. I mean, it’s pretty common for women to change their hairstyles and get their hair cut. (It seems the majority of women in this video are playing with or changing their hair in some way.)
Other women are featured blowing bubble gum, painting their faces, wearing head and face coverings, and exercising. None of these things are life-threatening choices. None of these things interfere with another innocent life. None of these things even affect another life, much less take it.
NARAL’s “celebration” of Roe v. Wade is senseless, bizarre, flippant, and just plain odd. Trying to feature happy women making everyday choices and relating that to the heinous tragedy of abortion is evidence of desperation and deception.
And here it is, “40 Photographers Faces, 40 Years of Choice”….
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“We get to take something that was fought pretty hard for and keep it alive.”
While the rest of us are fighting to keep humans alive. . . . .
Nice that they give us the list of photographers to boycott.
How absurd. It reminds of an early 1980s MTV video. I must admit those videos were great fun to watch and addictive, but certainly not of any redeeming social value.
Gee, shouldn’t NARAL be celebrating real successes, like an end to child abuse and poverty? As I recall over 40 years ago, legal abortion would be a solution to every social problem. So name one that has been solved. Shouldn’t they also be celebrating the likes of Kermit Gosnell having been put out of business decades ago? Shouldn’t they be celebrating all the young women who are clamoring to take over the reins of NARAL leadership?
Instead they can only come up with this teenybopper production. Well what else can you expect from aging teenyboppers?
Laura Loo,
That was shallow and insulting. As usual, that side only chooses to show the faces of those who either are in denial about choosing to end an innocent life, or who are in danger of doing so in the future.
How about showing the faces of those who have come to grips with the truth about their previous choices?
The poor baby signing “c-h-o-i-c-e-heart” at 1:32 doesn’t realize she (if deaf or mute) herself is an abortion survivor…
I have a theory that when people abort their first child, it causes arrested development. I can anecdotally back it up, but I’m not field researcher or statistician.
However, watching this video, I am reminded of it. Nothing about these childish women disproves my theory of arrested development. The photography is uninspiring and self-indulgent. What’s the message? Pro-choice women embrace mediocrity?
I think they’re trying to make the pro-abortion movement look young, happy, energetic, and bohemian. Which it isn’t. You see pro-life vids like this, that show the “faces of the movement” or whatever, and instead of having to stick a bunch of actors on sets, you can grab a bunch of real people from protests and rallies and marches and CPCs because our movement actually does stuff. And actually is young, happy, and energetic. If they’d wanted this film to show the abortion defence movement, they should’ve filmed clinic escorts and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Choice: flip your hair around, at least you had the opportunity to grow it!
Choice: it has many faces, including those that get stuffed in tiny plastic bags and hauled away.
Choice: it makes grown women act like little girls forever.
Choice: you can’t release your own inner child unless you’ve killed the child within.
The woman finger spelling choice and making the shape of a heart does not appear to be deaf and/or mute to me. In ASL, the sign for heart is made differently. She is not signing love either.
Did I hear the lyrics correctly? I thought I heard something about I am falling down. Maybe it was wishful thinking on my part.
Nope, you heard them right. The song is a remixed version of “40 Winks” by an artist called Marla. It seems to be fairly unobjectionable on its own, and it’s possible Marla doesn’t even know NARAL is using it, since NARAL is a non-profit and this isn’t a fund-raising video.
Also, the video is a eugenicist’s dream – the message might almost be “abortion is great because we can get rid of anyone who isn’t young, good looking, healthy, free from any disability or disfigurement”. Nobody in the vid had a hair lip. Nobody in the vid had Down’s Syndrome. Because all such awkward people are to be killed before we can see them so they don’t bother us.
That video is ridiculous and insulting. It says nothing about what abortion really is. Nothing whatsoever. It reduces the whole issue to pretty girls flipping their hair and being “perfect.” Joshua is so right–it is a eugenicists dream. I didn’t even see one slightly overweight person in there. So much for feminism–where clothes, looks, and body types aren’t supposed to matter. Hmmm.