(State-Funded Web) Site: No stigma in abortion

Boston Herald ^ | 4/20/2011 | Christine McConville

[markomalley]

A state-funded sex education Web site that tells teens an abortion is “much easier than it sounds” has drawn fire from outraged pro-lifers who say mariatalks.com is glossing over ugly truths, steering teens toward the controversial procedure and counseling them how to keep mom and dad in the dark.

“The commonwealth is using taxpayer money to tell kids how to get a secret abortion, and that’s wrong,” said Linda Thayer, a former Boston schoolteacher who is vice president for educational affairs of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, which this week took aim at the site.

“This is a misuse of state funds, especially for parents who are taxpayers,” said Thayer, who also blasted the Web site for “deception by omission” for describing abortion simply as “when the contents of the womb (uterus) are removed.”

Mariatalks.com, featuring fictional hip teen “Maria,” who addresses teens in a breezy tone, has been produced since 2008 by the AIDS Action Committee with $100,000 annual grants from the state Department of Public Health. The money also covers a sex-crisis hotline and other outreach efforts.

[markomalley]

[kittymyrib]

Have to recruit future customers for the baby butchers at Planned Parenthood, you know. There will be Hell to pay on Judgment Day for this disgusting evil that they are selling to the young.

[sten]

abortion is another mechanism the dems use for voter recruiting.

if a woman has an abortion, the vast majority will forever vote democrat to validate their decision.

this is yet another social engineering mechanism the left has been using for years. others include drug use, crime, infidelity, and body manipulation. all these things either lead to the break down of the family and/or a limitation on the professional advancement of the person.

of course, any limitations on a persons ability to support themselves could lead to the need for government assistance.

and when people need government assistance, which party do they vote for?

[ViLaLuz]

Margaret Sanger would be proud that her Planned Parenthood is now brazenly going after those Latino mud races in addition to those Negroes.

[exDemMom]

Here, we have another example of a leftist group giving lip service to a health issue, while advertising their blood business.

Girls who engage in the type of irresponsible behavior that leads to abortion aren’t exactly avoiding AIDS. One would think that an organization calling itself “AIDS Action Committee” would be wanting to encourage responsible behavior that prevents AIDS as well as pregnancy. But, maybe not. Maybe there’s profit in having more people get AIDS, just as there is tons of profit in the abortion industry.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Unless they copyrighted the image of “Maria”, this sounds like an excellent opportunity to re-use the character, and variations thereof.

And that can be very, very harsh. It can show abortion as not just a simple, painless, easy to undergo process, but an agonizing surgery experience that leaves her sick and weak for weeks. Her boyfriend leaves her, and other students gossip about her. Only very slowly does she overcome her terrible self-doubt and depression, agonizing over the baby she killed.

Show Maria a few years later, when she happily gets married to the man of her dreams, for them only then to discover that the scarring from her abortion has left her barren. Her husband, wanting children, then divorces her, and her life does downhill from there.

Hard. Her own family don’t want her back, and she spends her time in bars with men who want to use her, and give her VD. She becomes an alcoholic and a drug addict, and the memories of her abortion never go away, the turning point in her life where everything went bad. Finally, she discovers that she has breast and uterine cancer, one last effect of the smiling monsters who killed her baby and ruined her life.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Mariatalks.com

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Truly, literally, and egregiously:

BLASPHEMY!

[mlizzy]

Mariatalks.com is full of bulls***. And I wonder what their reasoning was behind using the name "Maria."

If a parent tragically loses a child through illness or an accident early in life, ask them if even a day goes by they don't think of their beautiful child. Now think of a mother who "requested" an abortion; how does she feel down the road when she realizes she is responsible for her own child's early death?

My child would have been 33 years old today. I've named her Mary Elizabeth, hence my screen name. Abortion is wicked, terminal to the child, and emotionally (and sometimes physically) destructive to its mother (and oftentimes father too).

And I couldn't help but notice that "Maria" ain't talkin' when it comes to post-abortion assistance, but Rachel's Vineyard will be most helpful in this regard. And getting to a priest for Confession is or prime importance if one is a Catholic. Yes, there's indeed life after abortion (and yes, joy--and kids--too!), but a mother (with a heart) will always remember the life she allowed to be destroyed.

Note to those visiting this link: If you've had an abortion, and have not healed, please get help. If you've never had an abortion, but are considering one ...

Please Consider Life

[markomalley]

Don’t know if your list would be interested in this or not...

[1010RD]

Great site. You ought to update Freddie Barnes’ Wikipedia page. It makes no mention of the moving story at PleaseConsiderLife.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Barnes

[mlizzy]

Thanks 1010RD for the suggestion (and the compliment!), but the original article which I published on Free Republic here can no longer be found at the original link which was here. For this reason, I'm hesitant to post the article on Freddie Barnes' Wikipedia page, as I don't know the circumstances behind the article being removed from Chicago Sun-Times' archives. It's an outstanding story, to be sure. My better half was the one who showed me the newspaper on the day it was published; possibly he can follow up on it to see why it was removed.