Euthanasia opponents should hand out a terminal-patient-on-a-respirator-doll. It’d combine soft squishiness with intriguing metallic parts and flashing lights (the kiddies love mechanical stuff).
It could come with a pamphlet explaining how doctors and greedy relatives pull the plug before the patient is really dead. And the patient doll’s head could come off showing a shrunken, liquefied brain while the mechanical part keeps booping and beeping.
Fun for the whole family. And not as hard on the arteries as funnel cakes.
Because giving children sex aids and information on how to use them is not the same as giving children baby dolls and information about a baby’s development.
Again, not a comparable item. This fetus doll does not even mention abortion, and is a natural, positive stage of every human’s development, not a horrific situation that it is reasonable that a parent would want to hide from young children. Quit being a moron and at least try to argue in good faith.
Perhaps she doesn’t want to raise clueless, credulous children. They become clueless, credulous adults who annoy the rest of us. In general people object to attempts by adults to manipulate the emotions of their children- particularly since this is about a political issue that doesn’t concern children in any real way. The good news here is that, yes, you don’t have to tell your children what these jerks are really up to and it sounds like the kids probably didn’t get the intended message anyway.
Bullshit. If she doesn’t want to raise clueless, credulous children, them finding out what they looked like before they were born is not a threat.
No, the good news is that they aren’t jerks because they presented their position in a non-jerkish way.
If your side wants a legitimate argument against this toy, here’s a freebie: the web address on the flier. Leave that off, and this would be a perfect way to show your five year old what their baby brother or sister looks like.
Maybe you could market these as “Three Dimensional Aubrey Beardsley Drawings”. the Victorian artist thought the image of a human fetus was one of the most grotesque things he ever saw, and used it in a number of his drawings to create a seriously creepy image:
And here’s free advice for you: it is both underhanded and disgusting to use a family outing at the fair as an excuse to sneak-indoctrinate young kids on an issue they need to be much older to understand.
The only positive for “your side” is that this dodge is not as repellent as what anti-abortion rights activists have stuck up on billboardsfor kids to see, and not as bad as picketing a school that one of their target’s children attend.
It’s their own fault they are choking and they need to take some sort of responsibility for their actions.
I say a 24 hour waiting period and a mandatory ultra-sound to show them what the toy looks like when it’s inside them is needed before it can be removed.
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and this would be a perfect way to show your five year old what their baby brother or sister looks like.
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Oh I’m sure these were intended as a great way for a pregnant mom to show her young children what the baby looks like. That’s why they they come in a box of 50..
