NARAL defies Planned Parenthood, promotes “pro-choice” terminology
People are such lemmings. Now that Planned Parenthood has decided the abortion movement’s most prized obfuscation, “pro-choice,” is uncool, everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.
Suddenly, “[p]ro-choice sounds stark, institutional and impersonal,” proclaimed ad agency exec Shireen Jiwan of Sleuth in the AdWeek post, “How 6 ad women would rebrand pro-choice.”
Womankind’s Sandy Sabean added, “What needs to be made clearer is that what we are against is anti-choice.” Well, that really does clear things up. I’d think the correct phrase would then be “pro-choice,” but what do I know?
Then there’s NARAL Pro-Choice America. For obvious reasons this group likes the term pro-choice.
I would love to have been in the room when Planned Parenthood’s people told NARAL’s people their name was outdated. Ha.
But NARAL isn’t towing the “pro-me” line (ad exec Amanda Hughes-Watkins’ suggestion for the name replacement, which is actually pretty much on the dime, since abortion is about me, me, me).
NARAL is asking people to vote on three new t-shirt designs (warning: one of the choices is vulgar), and the third one is, ”I AM PRO-CHOICE AMERICA.”
This is really just a ploy to snag members (by voting “you are affirming your membership in NARAL Pro-Choice America”), but the bottom line is NARAL isn’t going to let go of “pro-choice” without a fight.
Which I love.
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.
Anti-anti-choice?
I thought Stephen Colbert was America?
It’s starting to get good, too.
http://whjiblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/open-letter-to-melissa-flournoy-of-planned-parenthood-gulf-coast/
“Keep your laws off my cat?” “Keep your laws off my rat?” “Keep your laws off my pet?”
Oh, I get what it is supposed to say, but what prevents NARAL from just showing a picture of female genitalia? The t-shirt message would be clearer. Illustrations and costumes of female reproductive parts hasn’t offended their sensibilities before. So why the code?
“It’s starting to get good, too.”
Pops popcorn and watches intently.
That TPM article was depressing. Not only do they take the marching orders and run with them, the article talks about how the “nuances and layers of our stories started to shift public awareness and understanding” in the past tense. The propaganda is only now officially being rolled out, but already that’s the way it was and what they are saying now has been affecting society for a long time. This is like Soviet revisionist history, the new thing we are doing now has always been the case in our movement!
JDC:
I’ll pass the sno caps around! Good thing my seat has a cup holder! This could take a while. Carry on, Naral anti anti choice!