Pro-abort blackmail: Give me $1 million or I’m having an abortion
by Carder
I am a twenty-six-year-old female and I am currently 7 weeks pregnant. I have every intention of having an abortion, but I’m giving you a chance to stop it….
On July 7th I will start accepting donations on this page. I will accept donations for 72 hours, the same amount of time this state currently requires a woman to wait after a consultation with a doctor until she can have an abortion. If one million dollars is raised in those 72 hours then I’ll have the baby, give it up for adoption and every cent of that one million dollars will be put in a trust fund for the child, which he or she will have access to when they turn 21….
I will do my best to remain anonymous in this process as what I aim to prove has nothing to do with me personally. I hope to give the American public a concrete example that the conservative right in America doesn’t actually care about the life of a child, they care about controlling the lives and choices of women.
We have to acknowledge this and we have to stop it.
~ Anonymous pro-abort, alleging that she will obtain an abortion if she does not receive one million dollars in 72 hours, Pro-life Anti Woman via HLN TV, June 16
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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.
1) Why on earth should anyone actually believe what she says? She’s a completely anonymous, online stranger. Yeah, that’ll make me want to give someone money. *eyeroll*
2) How exactly would people refusing to give to aforementioned anonymous online stranger prove anything except that people don’t want to get scammed? Sure, I’d totally trust some complete stranger who wants an abortion to give this cool million to their allegedly unwanted child later on. Uh huh. Oh sure.
3) Pro-lifers already give money to pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, food pantries, clothing rooms, World Vision, Compassion International (and the list goes on), etc, and those organizations help plenty of women and children (and there’s – you know – some accountability there). Heck, some pro-lifers even take in and give aid to women and children *whom they actually know in real life*. Imagine that.
4) This little blackmail experiment proves how dumb some people are. And apparently this one’s pretty dumb.
Agree with you, Kel, and I think I’ve actually seen this exact same scam before. There was also a version with people who claimed they’d kill their pet rabbit if they didn’t raise $X.
in truth, she should find a bank that will open an account and verify that the money can only be taken out by her daughter, and donations go directly in that account. She would easily get the 1 mil.
1 Kings 3:16-28.
What changes? She is so unwilling to be pregnant she is ready to kill. Yet if we give her a million bucks (that she won’t even be keeping) she suddenly won’t kill? Yup…seems totally legit. *eyeroll*
As an adoptive mom I find this a) really sick and b) probably illegal.
To point a): Adoptive parents take on all the joys and responsibilities of parenting. Money is not supposed to be promised between the adults in the triad like this. It’s not right. This situation reminds me of the detective show (Castle) that featured a homicidal social networker who promised to electrocute one of two guys on live feed–keeping alive whoever got the most “votes”. Would someone who refused to “vote” on that feed be “pro-electrocution”? It’s ludicrous!
To point b) How does birthfather feel about all this? Unlike in an abortion, birthfathers have the right to sign off on an adoption. And with this amount of money involved, how could you prove that this was a “free will” placement. If she didn’t end up placing and just kept the money, could people sue her or something? And if she did go through with the adoption unwillingly, she could claim coercion which is illegal. Money and adoption just can’t mix like this.
There is no way that this would be a healthy adoption relationship because in an healthy adoption all the adults involved are focusing on the needs of the child. This woman doesn’t care about the child.
I am angry that someone is using adoption to “prove” some sort of hypocrisy. By nature, adoption is life-affirming. The mere fact that she is sure she’d be able to find a placement belies her premise that “no prolifers care about the child once s/he is born.” Obviously, the thousands of families looking for an adoption placement want nothing more than to care for the child once s/he is born. This whole stunt is insulting.
Crowdfunding has its perils – unless you personally know the person who is in charge, then there is risk of it being a scam.
I think that in the last couple months a guy was prosecuted for some sort of fraud – the contributed money not going to where he said it would do.
P.S. Give me $1000 or I will open this wine before its time.
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This is a scam folks, why even waste time acknowledging it??
Next week he/she will be selling carbon credits, and will likely have plenty of buyers.
Not even original either. They tried the same stunt back in 2006. Except that time, they only asked for $40000.
http://stopmyabortion.blogspot.ca/
This woman is demanding more money than most parents have to raise their children. The average U.S. household income is around 50,000 per year, and the average output of children is still above 1.
Why is this abortion extortionist asking for so much? It engenders distrust of her stated intentions.
Why is she waiting until July 7 to start her ransom demand??
This is akin to a kidnapper holding a child hostage until we pay the ransom to set him or her free.
It’s just a publicity stunt/political statement. I would give this exactly as much attention as it deserves.
If the money were going to some pro-life trustee, I would contribute.
But since her own child can’t trust her, I am not willing to put any money where she can get her hands on it. We don’t even know if she is pregnant.
This is the DUMBEST publicity stunt /extortion attempt I’ve ever heard of (!)
In January 1987, during a fundraising drive, Oral Roberts (A Methodist-Pentacostal preacher that founded Oral Roberts University), announced to a television audience that unless he raised $8 million by that March, God would “call him home.” Whether it is God allegedly holding someone hostage or a woman threatening to murder her child, both incorrectly assume that the blame for the outcome rests on someone else other than themselves. If she said, “I will detonate a dirty bomb in Los Angeles unless you pay me one million dollars,” everyone would have recognized her for what she is: a terrorist.
TMRobinson: In January 1987, during a fundraising drive, Oral Roberts (A Methodist-Pentacostal preacher that founded Oral Roberts University), announced to a television audience that unless he raised $8 million by that March, God would “call him home.”
I think the snickers surrounding that one are still echoing.
Concerning Oral Roberts, didn’t some dog race track owner cough up the money? Apparently Oral, and hence the Lord, had no qualms about the money coming from a rather dubious source.
I don’t think its wrong to do a gofundme for a pregnancy. Alot of women who are having abortions think for pretty good reasons the provider in the relationship (mother + father + child) will be them, and indeed it likely will be… unless, (big unless) they can move in with mom and dad… however, alot of them are kicked out of mom and dads for not “choosing” abortion. That’s why they call it “choice” not “choices”. Serious. It happens ALOT. Alot, alot… Waaayy too much… thanks pro-choice America! So nice of you to provide abortion as an incentive for unsupportive grandparents, and fathers to use in order to threaten the pregnant mother into doing what THEY want!!! Not what SHE wants.
However, if abortion were illegal, abortion incentivizing would be radically limited, especially by law-abiding citizens.
Unfortunately, this is not a gofundme. Its a political stunt, and it doesn’t really smell like truth. Instead, SHE’s the one abortion incentivizing, and she’s pitting love against money… but isn’t that what abortion incentivizing is ALWAYS about = cash.
Assuming she’s educated, she would not wait until the child was… 2 MONTHS preggers. Its painful enough as it is past the three week stage. Now we’re talkin’ forceps, deff a cannula, a syringe filled with poison going in to her body to get into her child’s body. Then of course the body has to come out. At that point its a ‘forced miscarriage,’ which is no more pleasant than an all-natural miscarriage. I hope she researches the amount of pain this is going to cost her. Shes at a very healthy age to have a baby.
I have to say, its too bad she can’t find a couple desperate to adopt who is willing to put up a trust fund for her, because I am sure there is some on out there… an average adoptive couple waits up to at least two years, and pays at the min about ten thousand in fees. There are two million of these couples… so do the math, that’s two trillion in funds… just waiting to be tapped into by the right marketing maneuverings… that’s right… thats an industry. So… how to connect the dots??? Women do put in a great deal of effort to gestate and the dude usually bails, as well as the support group…
Oh, and one more stat that may be of use… roughly one out of every nine women who carry to term an unwanted child, gives their child up for adoption. That means if you pooled together the fund for ten couples waiting to adopt a newborn = 100,000.00 in sitting funds, each person putting money up would receive a child in what amount of time? I say three years, assuming the adoptive pool includes over 300 women who are being supported into having babies instead of abortions… that is, they are being encouraged by the community in spite of the support group that they tried to incentivize an abortion.
Typical Democrat.
She sounds like a republican to me.
Same fear-mongering scam as Population Controllers: “Pay up for abortions or the planet dies.”
So the death or life of her child is up to prolifers?
So much for “choice” eh?
What about “my body, my choice?”
But, But, But abortion has always been between a woman and her doctor!!!!
::eyeroll::
Give me a million dollars and I’ll give it to Anonymous Pro-abort.
Trust me. I’m a woman. I think.
Gimme some doggone money or I’ll eat these potato chips. Empty carbs are bad, you know.
Wow. This is messed up on so many levels, but it’s the same as pro-choicers saying “adopt my child, or I’ll kill it!” After a year of fighting the good fight (behind a computer screen most of the time, mind you), the issue of abortion has become exhausting to me, but this disgusts me. They’re holding their own child’s life hostage, meaning we (collectively) care more about their child’s life than they do. Repulsive behavior from selfish human beings who can’t bring themselves to care about anyone else besides themselves and think nothing is ever their fault.
I’m sure my comments are too late; however, this so-called woman asking for a million bucks or she’ll have an abortion is classic b.s.! :-) Only in America can a person be irresponsible and afterwards seek monetary gain…and the sad thing is that there are millions in America who routinely give thousands of dollars to such persons…and yes I’m including that false prophet C. Dollar who wants a new jet! Isn’t America grand!?
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So sad someone would actually act like a hostage taker and solicit ransom for her own child. Honestly if she makes an adoption plan, her baby would be loved and cared for in a way she is not ready or able to at this time in her life. The million won’t be necessary.
Ransom, do we want to create more copy cats?
The decision to take the life of her own child is hers to make. Let us not enable this behavior. Sadly, her child may lose his or her life. Hopefully she will come to her senses and her morals and values will kick in and she will abandon her intent to kill her baby and select a loving couple to parent her child.
God guide her and lead her to the right decision in the best interest of her child and herself.
We shall pray,
Has anyone found this woman yet? The federal authorities should be looking for her. If she isn’t pregnant, she is committing fraud. Others who have claimed they have cancer or other circumstances who have proven to be lying have been prosecuted for this. If she is pregnant, collects one dime, and has nothing set up for refunding the money or putting it in a trust fund, she may be able to be prosecuted as well for, again, lying about her circumstances and intentions. Fraud is fraud. It’s against the law. I hope she goes to prison.