Operation Rescue us from seeing a penis

The BBQ Pit
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So, today is like day two or three. Day two or three of this truck orbiting the vicinity of my workplace for several hours a day. Said truck is from Operation Rescue (the anti abortion outfit).

The truck has a wraparound billboard-style graphic on it. It’s for their new ad campaign: “One Dead, One Wounded”. You see a HUGE HUGE (8 x 10 feet, at least) photo of a ripped up fetus. Decapitated, all bloody, gaping hole in the torso, primordial innards looped all about, and generally really really gross. Did I mention how fucking big the photo is.

Next to that, you see a big photo of the tearful mom. Who now wishes she didn’t have an abortion because now she’s going to hell or whatever. Anyway, I must again emphasize the violent goriness of the HUGE photo of the fetus. Totally sick and who needs to see that?

Ah! But today the truck comes around again, and we take another look at it, a better look. It was only then that we saw, that on this huge photo of a bloody, shredded up fetus, the fetus’ penis is covered up by a black bar! (!!!) How totally totally twisted is that?

Good one, guys. God forbid I’m forced to look at something disgusting like a penis. May you be aborted retroactively and without a waiting period.

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Some people really need to get their priorities straight.

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I always wonder if the people who come up with those ideas have small kids – imagine trying to explain that truck to a 3-year-old! Morons.

I also wonder what the same sorts of people, if they were protesting outside a Planned Parenthood, would say if I pointed out to them that I was going in to get the pill so I DON’T have to get an abortion? (Medical reasons, I’d probably have to if I got pregnant. Can’t get myself fixed at the moment.)

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I really, really feel sorry for the women who had to abort b/c the fetus was not viable, or if the pregnancy threatened their life in some way. As if they don’t feel like they’ve gone through hell and back already…the very last thing they would need to see would be that.

And yeah, the little censor bar in the middle of all that is completely asinine.

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You wanna know the REALLY messed up thing? If it was a picture of nude, fully grown person, that truck would be yanked off the roadway, and the driver arrested. I hate how immature this country is, really hate it.

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Or worse-a miscarriage?

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The OP has a point.

On the other hand, Operation-Rescue-Us-From-Having-To-See-Mickey-Rooney’s-Naked-Butt-During-The-Super-Bowl was a roaring success.

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I don’t have to imagine explaining it to a 3-year-old. A bunch of them decided to hang around the building where our children’s doctor has offices. I have no idea whether there is or was an abortion provider in that facility. I do know there was a busy pediactrics practice and a preschool. Wonderful.

And how stupid do you have to be to yell “Let us help you!” to a woman with two small children in tow. What did she think I was going to do? Don’t worry lady, I know 4th trimester abortions are illegal.

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“Great! This one needs changing. Here’s the diaper bag.”

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I know this is bad, but I busted out laughing when I read that. Jesusfuck, could these people be any more ridiculous?! It’s very had to take them seriously when they do shit like that.

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This thread leaves me wondering:

How many black bars would a picture of a female fetus have? What if it’s the lovechild of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake?

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I think I get it though. They’re humanizing the fetus, covering its genitals like you would do for any born person.

It’s sad that the sexual part (sexual on a fetus?) is the obscene part.

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They’re against birth control too, you know.

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Oh, and BTW: Cite

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Notice there was not one mention for women who should not conceive due to health reasons.

And reversing a tubal ligation-is he mad? I’ve heard that the surgery to do so is even worse than having it done the first time!

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One question: How do you know it was a penis?

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Too damn bad. They’ll take my birth control out of my cold, dead hands,and not one minute sooner. Even then I’ll put up a fight.

Besides, I’m 28. I know WTF I’m doing, and I know what I’m risking (any contraception can fail, I know), and it is simply none of their damn business.

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I wouldn’t subject my kids to it, at all. Don’t want to explain THAT to them!

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Yo, Randall Terry “I’d go crazy if I had another child” isn’t an excuse. In the case of Andrea Yates, it was God’s own truth. Asshat.

You know what, I can’t go into and operating theatre and take pictures of the patient without their permission, I can’t go and take pictures of amputated legs and arms and publish them. Hell, the pictures of foetuses in medical textbooks are only obtained with parental permission.

The pictures that these organisation use have to have been obtained through some very shady, if not outright illegal means. It’s disrespectful and abhorrent to use images in that way. They claim that they care for the unborn…if they really did they would have enough respect for that dead foetus not to publish those pictures.

Since most abortions for bob-medical reasons are first trimester (before the foetus is recognisably human), there’s a really good chance that the picture shows a late abortion carried out for severe foetal abnormality or maternal health problems. Terminating a wanted pregnancy for those reasons is heart-breaking for the parents, but these people present such difficult choices in a light which shows that they have no compassion for the people involved.

Personally, I feel their money would be better spent providing free childcare, clothing and food to enable more women to raise their children out of poverty. Perhaps it might even mean that a poor woman would feel able to continue her pregnancy if she knew that there would be childcare and some of the financial troubles would be eased. But that would be far to practical an approach for these people.

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These people suck ass. Plain and simple. May they realize the error of their ways, and disappear in a puff of extreme shame.