Crowdfunder Kickstarter accepts “After Tiller” but nixes Gosnell movie
Talk about blatant bias. Although crowdfunded site Kickstarter refused the makers of the new Gosnell movie permission to fundraise, the same company hosted the recent After Tiller late-term abortionist documentary….
The After Tiller Kickstarter campaign described how the documentary delved into, “the lives of these physicians, who have become the new number-one targets of the pro-life movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day.”…
Right before the project was set to launch, Kickstarter wrote to [filmmaker Phelim] McAleer and demanded that “the phrase ‘1000s of babies stabbed to death’ and similar language be modified or removed from the project.” The site reasoned that, “Our Community Guidelines outline that we encourage and enforce a culture of respect and consideration.”
But McAleer called out Kickstarter’s hypocrisy later, by citing the site’s 16 projects about stabbing, 5 projects about incest, 44 projects about rape and 28 projects with F**k or F**king in the title (as well as one project with C*** in the project description).
~ LifeSiteNews.com, April 4. Donate to the Gosnell movie project at Indiegogo.
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.
Kickstarter is in bed with Sundance, so no surprise there.
I’m pro life but I don’t agree with what this article is saying.
Controlling language in the description is not “nixing” anything. I don’t totally agree with it, but it’s not banning it from raising funds, nor is it banning the actual content of the project. It’s just banning a few words from the description. If the filmmakers truly cared about bringing this story to the public they would be willing to change the language. It really feels like using shock language and emphasizing opinions is more important than making a film on an actual serial killer.
Anyways, the words they used DID break their guidelines which was created BEFORE they made that profile. Using profanity is one thing, but language describing murder, rape, other acts of violence, creates sensory images- it makes the person visualize images, scents, tastes, sounds, emotions and sensations that are unnerving and sickening, whereas cursing does not create this imagery. Plus, I’m not sure if it was ever proven one thousand infants were stabbed. He was only charged with about three murders, because they couldn’t prove all the infants had breathed outside the womb, more were found with stab wounds, but I think the numbers they came up with were based on the number of late term abortions performed, but not all these abortions would have resulted in live births. I find it criminal and immoral- along with the majority of the population- that he performed such late abortions regardless of whether they were born alive, but I believe documentaries should remain as non biased as possible, thus discerning between infants and fetuses.
I understand that Kickstarter regretted their decision and have apologized. Does anyone know if this is true?
This guy also had his pro-life fundraiser rejected by Kickstarter, so I suspect it is NOT a coincidence or misunderstanding:
http://twistedconservative.com/kickstarter-rejected-our-pro-life-project/
The only difference between an infant and a fetus is location. I was a premie so I would not even say that size constitutes a difference. Children larger than I was at birth were routinely killed by Gosnell.