Handing out 12-wk preborn “squish alien” baby models at fair “weird, extreme, unsettling”
[Rob] Port said this was the wrong way of spreading the anti-abortion message. He wrote a blog, “Dear Pro-Lifers: Can You Stop Being a Bunch of Weirdos?” on July 21: “Whatever group is out there trying to promote the pro-life message by handing out squish alien babies, stop. You’re doing more harm than good.”
Dina Butcher, a North Dakota resident who defines herself as a longtime pro-choice Republican, also blasted the group’s decision to distribute the toys in an op-ed in the Grand Forks Herald.
“Judging by the shaped plastic ‘fetuses’ that they threw to children watching the parade at the North Dakota State Fair,” she wrote, the anti-abortion activists “have definitely reached an all-time low in bad taste.”
In a statement to ABC News, Samantha Gordon, director of public affairs for NARAL Pro-Choice America, wrote, “Watching the anti-choice movement attempt to engage the public by using extreme and unsettling tactics is nothing new.”
~ Reaction to Minot Right to Life and North Dakota Right to Life distributing 12-wk-old preborn baby models at the state fair, as quoted by KMBZ, July 25. See a bizarre ABC report on the “stunt” at link.
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.
It is hard to read these kind of “analytical” and “critical” articles with a straight face.
I remember when I was first introduced to these “timeline” fetuses. It was the clever tacticians who introduced me to them. You know the type of person. They are those persons who In addition to distributing plastic fetuses, often carry rosary beads and statues of Mother Mary, Crucifixes, and prayer cards. These powerful agents of the prolife movement often crouch together on their knees seeking and praying for God’s intervention. Some of them have the gall to even name the little plastic fetuses.
So, yes, for sure, prolifers who hand out these plastic toy fetuses are engaged in a cruel and evil tactic – in fact, it is the most evil tactic of all the tactics known to humankind.
Minot, ND.
My old stomping grounds!!
Keep it up prolifers!!
Fetal models are extreme and unsettling?
But chopping up innocent human beings is fine and dandy.
EXCEPT….they aren’t alien babies. They’re human babies. Species reproduce after their own kind pro-aborts! I have never carried an alien baby. So these fetal models depict very young humans not visitors from outer space. Nice try though.
The models work. A CPC visited my son’s school and gave all the kids a fetal model. The kids LOVED it! Kids are naturally pro-life. My son’s school also raised $6000 in one week for this CPC. This is the CPC I take women to for a free ultrasound when I intercept them going into Planned Parenthood.
They’re DOLLS. Seriously, pro-aborts, you are freaking out over dolls. I will never get what is so ‘gross’ about these. I would love an explanation, for entertainment value if nothing else.
I can honestly say I haven’t heard the outrage about this, and I livein Grand Forks. ND is fairly pro-life, though.
Mrs. Butcher, I think you’ve got your head on backwards. How can a small baby ever be unsettling? It exposes the truth, which is lethal to the cause of people like you who rely on DECEPTION!
anti-abortion activists “have definitely reached an all-time low in bad taste.”
As opposed, I presume, to the good taste of ripping actual live babies to shreds with powerful vacuums.
…….or the good taste of having children hold signs with “If I wanted the government in my womb I’d f— a politician”? Or the good taste of bringing jars of feces and urine to the TX state capitol to sling at prolifers? Or the good taste of…… etc etc etc
It seems that people still don’t know what a 12-week fetus really looks like, no matter how much we spend on “comprehensive” sex education.
If you think that the models are somehow “wrong,” then you probably need to contact your middle school and demand your money back.
Meanwhile…. We have some lucky kids who go to schools where pro-lifers are permitted to hand out realistic models of real, developing humans.
Why 12 weeks? Why not hand out “dolls” modeled after fetuses at 6 weeks gestation, since that’s the cut-off date for ND’s (recently blocked) abortion ban.
If you actually want an answer, you’d have to ask the people handing them out, joan. Probably a multitude of reasons. Feel free to purchase and hand out any age you wish:
http://godslittleones.homestead.com/microplasticase.html
Did these pro-choice complainers happen to share with America how they liked Melissa Harris-Perry’s tampon earrings? Just curious.
Don’t confuse her with facts, Lrning. :)
“Reaction to Minot Right to Life and North Dakota Right to Life distributing 12-wk-old preborn baby models at the state fair, as quoted by KMBZ, July 25. See a bizarre ABC report on the ‘stunt’ at link.”
I guess they’d consider us more normal if we lobbed jars of bodily wastes and used tampons at them.
Would an anti-euthanasia float throw out little plastic old people? Now THAT would be creepy.
I think a cuter model might be an improvement; this one looks like it has an old man face. Now, I love a good sci fi or horror flick, but this isn’t the best way to prove a point. I’d have distributed cards of ultrasound images at the same gestational age. People are “liking” ultrasounds all over new media.
I do believe ultrasounds look a lot better. People can say these dolls look fake (and I do think they look weird) but you can verify pretty quickly if an ultrasound is labeled correctly by looking online.
LOL. I had to like X-GOP’s comment cause that made me burst out laughing.
Yawn. I hear the same condemnations about everything pro-lifers do. What’s the matter? Does it prick your conscience? Afraid of the truth getting out?
I’ll take fetal development models and squishy 12 week dolls over people parading around in genitalia costumes, slicing up cakes that look like babies, and popping balloons under the shirts of college boys.
Our local Right to Life group hands these out at their annual massive yard sale, and my kids love them. They think it’s cool to be able to see what people are so excited about inside those baby bumps.
Why not hand out “dolls” modeled after fetuses at 6 weeks gestation,
They’re probably a choking hazard.
Do they come in different flavors?
How about different colors even…?
“I guess they’d consider us more normal if we lobbed jars of bodily wastes and used tampons at them” – who did that?
Are the prolifers at the state fair getting the permission of the parents first? By the way, why the adult head on the fetus in the photo?
Why would anyone need permission? One of our local bank hands out tiny piggy keyrings. Do you think they need permission? Or is it because humans are somehow more offensive than pigs? Or, is it just tiny humans that abortion advocates find so offensive?
Would a pig fetus be ok?
Maybe a puppy fetus?
Or are they just as extreme and unsettling???
See,
“I guess they’d consider us more normal if we lobbed jars of bodily wastes and used tampons at them” – who did that?
This is the kind of deflective non-argument that is typical of Reality’s comments. Another on a long list of reasons I don’t take any of his comments or questions seriously.
After yammering on about how they might have meant to make ‘art’ with it, that they must not have brought the jars into the Texas capitol at all, and if they did it’s excusable, blah blah blah, he pops onto this thread as if to say “what jars of urine could you possibly be talking about?”
This is a fine example of the pro-aborts complete lack of any reason or rationale for killing human children.
uh huh, if you want to be rational, tell me who threw any jars as various quotes keep alluding.
Or will you deflect?
Rational? Dude, go take some debating lessons. You have no rationale.
Well I sure as heck wouldn’t take any from you ;-)
“I’ve seen your family argue: they’re amateurs.” -My Cousin Vinnie
As I thought :-)
That’s a really underrated movie, Ninek, I love it. I don’t know very many people around my age who have seen it, which is a shame. It’s hilarious!
ninek-
It’s been scrubbed from the good ‘ol selective memory banks. Helps to maintain the tenuously-held worldview, ya know. ;)