Jivin J’s Life Links 4-5-11
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- University of Michigan researchers are patting themselves on the back for killing more human embryos. This time the human embryos had genes with inherited genetic disorders.
- The Life Education Counsel is suing CBS Outdoor for refusing to display their pro-life billboards:
This time CBS said that the picture needed to go because abortion “is a potentially emotional topic that might be unduly disturbing to young women who may have made the kinds of choices that the displays deal with,” according to the complaint.
A message from the company to Counsel board member Betty LaRosa stated that CBS could not accept “images which might be deemed shocking, unsettling or even manipulative,” the complaint states.
LaRosa says she protested and “emphasized that CBS’s censorship was diluting and effectively changing her message.”
CBS “insisted that if LEC would just get rid of the baby picture, the advertisement may run,” the plaintiffs says.
- The Health Behavior News Service has details of a new study showing an increase in instances of ectopic pregnancy. Researchers believe contributing factors may include STDs (which damage the fallopian tubes), delayed childbearing leading to the use of IVF, and increased use of IUDs as birth control.
- Pearl Gosnell, wife of infamous abortion Kermit Gosnell, was granted bail but will still be under house arrest.
- The Susan B. Anthony List has a list of potential Republican presidential candidates and their positions on defunding Planned Parenthood.
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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.
“just get rid of the baby picture”
!?!?
What the folks at CBS are really saying is ‘just get…’, shoo, go away, don’t bother us.
When picture of a baby is ‘controversial’, then we as a society/culture have devolved into an alternate reality that has no objectively observable boundaries.
What about those old anti smoking commericials with the images of the cancerous lungs or the young man without a tongue or the old fellow who has no jaw?
Ken, were there objections to those old anti-smoking commercials?
On the picture of the baby, was it really “manipulative” or not? For example, showing a much later-term baby than what is the truth in the overwhelming majority of abortions? I would think that if a billboard had a picture of a blastocyst, with the statement or implication being that “this is the reality of abortion,” there would be pro-lifers who would be against it.
Doug,
I have not seen the offending image, but I got the impression it was the photo of a live, intact infant, not a dismembered human embryo/fetus [baby].
But because it was in the context of ‘abortion’ it CBS execs feared it might traumatize post abortive women who failed to avert their eyes before it was too late and made the intended connection.
Perhaps Jill will provide us with a link to the proposed bill board.
Doug,
Can’t seem to locate the ‘image’ in question.
Life Education Concil might want to rethink their approach to advertising.
They are missing a golden opportunity for broadcasting their message much more widely than they had planned.
Ken, I’m just speculating. For all I know, CBS is truly just wishing to avoid controversy, but I’ve always liked talking with you.
On the “traumatizing post-abortive women” – I really don’t know, but I suspect that your pictured scenario is erroneous. I acknowledge it is possible that in this day and age a woman might not know what the “unborn baby” looks like at a given stage of gestation, but that information is right there at our fingertips via the internet, even if via a free library computer, for example.
Or maybe I’m assuming too much, based on what I see as the present near total and constant connectedness. Whereas I didn’t even get a computer until I was 37 years old, kids these days seem to have “smart phones” and all manner of web access. Are there many people that cannot “google” something?
Perhaps there are.
On my wife’s and my honeymoon, in Italy, 11 years ago, I remarked that it seemed like that upon turning 13 or 14, Italian kids were issued 2 cellphones and 100 cartons of cigarettes. Who knows?