Posted on 06/29/2011 12:18:48 PM PDT by wagglebee
p>WASHINGTON, D.C., June 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - American smokers buying their next pack of cigarettes will soon be confronted with graphic images showing the possible consequences of smoking: a dead man, another blowing smoke out a hole in his neck, and images of teeth, lips and lungs marred by cigarette use.
Now, a coalition of pro-life groups is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to give the ugly truth of abortion - something most Americans are sheltered from - fair billing.
“This marks the biggest change in cigarette package warnings in over a quarter of a century and notes the shift in American public opinion about smoking. Smoking has become passe,” said Kristan Hawkins, head of Students for Life of America, which is heading up the petition at AbolishAbortion.com.
“Yet, what about abortion? Where are the warning labels on abortion? Where are the warnings to tell women that abortion will kill their child and scar them for life?”
The International Right to Life Federation, Operation Rescue, Human Life Alliance, and several other pro-life groups have signed on as co-sponsors to the FDA petition.
Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek, who added her name to the petition, said the Obama administration’s move against cigarettes is ironic given its pro-abortion agenda. One cigarette label shows an illustration of an ailing baby with the words: “smoking during pregnancy can harm your baby.”
“Cigarettes claim the lives of 443,000 each year? Abortion claims the lives of nearly 3 times that, 1.2 million each year,” wrote Stanek.
The petition will end August 1.
Abortion kills as many Americans as cancer, heart disease and strokes COMBINED.
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There is a guy up here in RI that drives around hauling a trailer adorned with very graphic images of aborted fetuses and such as a Pro-Life message. Sooo many people are offended by it....truth hurts I guess.
Unlike smoking, however, death is the desired outcome of an abortion.
I thought of the Abortion Truth trucks as well when I read this article.
Trouble is.... Most people don’t want to be offended. Either by the ugliness of smoking or the brutality of abortion.
Most people oppose these types of messages.
Be the first kid on your block to collect 'em all!
Medical procedures are supposed to save lives. Abortion is a medical procedure that kills over half of the people who undergo it.
“Be the first kid on your block to collect ‘em all!”
They would make a great (if sick) subject for a Warhol imitator. (Think of the soup can prints.)
LOL!
“Rules for Radicals” redux!
While I totally support their petition to the FDA, she hurts herself using the 443,000 number which is totally bogus and is computer generated, and was computer generated more than a decade ago. Comparing a real number to a fake number is dumb.
Pretty soon they will be forcing candy and gum companies to add pictures of kids with rotten teeth on the wrappers.
Take a look at Jill Stanek's blog post and you will see that she is quoting the 443,000 number directly from the FDA's announcement.
She writes, "Cigarettes claim the lives of 443,000 each year?" as a QUESTION. She isn't accepting the number as valid at all, she is simply using the number the FDA claims to demonstrate how deadly abortion really is.
I totally understand what you’re saying, and I know the number is coming from the FDA (via CDC’s SAMMEC computer program) but it still doesn’t make that number correct.
My take was that she was taking them at their word about that number and using it in comparison to her actual valid number.
My point being, she could have phrased it better.
Her number is valid, the FDA number isn’t, not by a long shot. Her factual number is probably closer to 6 times, the number attributable to tobacco if the government would stop the lie about that number.
I support the petition, don’t get me wrong. I just get annoyed with bogus crap from big brother.
Oh yea, we need something like that. And should make it a priority ;)
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