WECT reports that the shirts caused a protest and other students rallied with their own shirts, saying things like “I haven’t killed a baby.”
Posted on 04/29/2012 1:20:17 PM PDT by Salman
While the right to privacy may have been the key to securing abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, some advocates of the controversial procedure today want to walk around with a sign, t-shirt to be exact, broadcasting their reproductive decisions.
In 2004, abortion advocate and author Jennifer Baumgardner launched the “I Had an Abortion” project to encourage women and men to “come out” about their procedures. The campaign featured shirts that read “I Had an Abortion,” a book, photo exhibit, and documentary film featuring 10 women – including feminist Gloria Steinem – describe their abortion experiences spanning seven decades.
In preparation of an upcoming panel discussion and book signing featuring Baumgardner at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, controversy ensued when “I Had an Abortion” shirts began to pop up around campus. WWAY reports that the panel was held Monday by the Women’s Studies Department and LGBTQIA Resource Office, where the controversial shirts were sold for $15 each at the event.
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Just exercising their “privacy rights”.
(Apparently, they belong to the “irony-impaired generation”.)
WECT reports that the shirts caused a protest and other students rallied with their own shirts, saying things like “I haven’t killed a baby.”
Look on the bright side... these are an open billboard for those wanting to avoid this type of sad, pathetic females.
When you're utterly amoral you have no use for 50's type things like shame.
They are proud of their sacrifice to The Lilith, their baby-eating Goddess.
Outstanding.
Wonder how long it took for the murderesses to be offended.
Maybe they should say “I Am An Abortion”.
LGBTQIA???
What does that stand for?
If you were to distribute a T-shirt that said, “I drive my kid around without a seat belt,” you would be denounced nationally by the media and popular culture. However when you boast that you killed your child before they had a chance to ride in a car, it becomes a novelty — one more tool for thoughtful political discourse. How sad.
Here’s a t-shirt idea.
“A woman needs an abortion like a fish needs a bicycle.”
I attended a Crisis Pregnancy Center dinner celebrating 30th year of pro life centers in AZ - Our Rep Trent Franks was there and so were over 30 families of those who personally came into the center for counseling. We had a mother and her 3 year old daughter at our table along with a couple and their 4 month old son, both of whom are alive today because of CPC ministries. The speaker said “6 million Jews were anhililated in less than 10 years during WWII - over 54 million babies have been murded in less than 40 years since Roe v Wade passed in 1973. (9 Holocausts over!!!)
do you really really want to know??
“I dodged an abortion” might make an interesting t-shirt.
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My mom skipped the abortion.
I wonder what would happen if some women were to start wearing shirts that say "I regret my abortion--CHOOSE LIFE"? I would think such a message might penetrate the Liberal Mind Fog which infests much of the populace, and I think reactions to that message might prompt abortion promoters to show themselves as who they really are, sufficiently clearly that even those infested by Liberal Mind Fog would be able to see it.
After all, abortion promoters could not allow such a message to go unchallenged, lest people who had abortions, and were ashamed of them, come to realize that wearing such a shirt might help atone for their past. It would thus be absolutely imperative that such people be attacked sufficiently viciously to discourage others from following suit. But how to attack them? The left would try to attack them with some contradictory arguments, but even Liberal Mind Fog wouldn't hide the contradictions, nor would it hide the hatred underlying the leftists' attacks.
I wonder if “daddy’s little princess” would wear one of these home to see mom and dad.
Abortion has long term psychological effects.
It would be interesting how many of the t shirt wearing “I had an abortion” wearers have psychological or relationship problems.....of course it would not occur to them the root cause could very well be their decision to kill an unborn child...
My guess is that LGBTQIA stands for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (or Transexual?) Queer Intersex (?) Alternative (?).
Maybe they should throw in a ‘K’ at the end for “Kitchen sink”.
Oh. Wait. It wasn't an acronym.
I thought queer too, but perhaps it is “questioning” which is a big phrase nowadays. I suppose so then you can act like a queer without being one!? And the IA might be In America.
My BIG question is, what do they call the group where the straight men can be found!?
Literally Gone Brainless Totally Queer Immoral Animals
How about this tee shirt:
I’VE HAD 15 ABORTIONS — PAID FOR BY YOU.
I don’t care what they do, they’re never going to succeed in making abortion the “admirable” or “heroic” choice they seem to want to portray it as. People instinctively know that murdering your own offspring is not praiseworthy. I don’t see how these sorts of campaigns can do anything but backfire.
Talk about shameless. Might as well say “I sleep around.” Nice advertising. Run for your lives, guys. Could be YOUR baby next.
Talk about shameless. Might as well say “I sleep around.” Nice advertising. Run for your lives, guys. Could be YOUR baby next.
You just beat me to it! I LOVE it when libs tie their own ropes. Just stand back and let them hang themselves!
ML/NJ
Really know what?
Every time I see that LGBT... thang, there are new letters. I have ceased beung curious about their meaning.
They just want to make everyone feel included...except the heteros!
I am for this. I would like to know who these woman are before risking the life of my unborn child.
I think they are in serious denial about that, though on some level they know.
The response to this could be very harsh. T-shirts:
You Had An Abortion?
You Killed Your Baby.
You Had An Abortion?
I Will Pray For Your Child.
You Had An Abortion?
Did The Child’s Father Know?
You Had An Abortion?
Human Life Means That
Little To You?
You Had An Abortion?
How Old Would Your Child
Have Been?
Wonder how they’d like an “I was going to have an abortion, but chose life for my baby instead” T-shirt?
“You Had An Abortion?
How Old Would Your Child
Have Been?”
Perfect. That is excellent.
Former Fetus
Or...
You Had An Abortion?
Aren’t you glad your mother didn’t?
That one’s been done. It’s important to keep fresh ideas in the argument, coming from an unexpected direction, because that trumps rote responses that can be made without thought.
On an unrelated note, I really had my teeth kicked in the other day, yet it was a no-fault and I understand the whole context. I casually knew a woman who the last I saw was almost due with her pregnancy. This time she was no longer pregnant, so I innocently asked, “Boy or Girl?”
She replied, “*It* *was* a girl.” Oh, heck. Time to shut up now. I assume a stillbirth.
I am very glad she was working at the time. I really did not want to be anywhere near there right then. But in quick retrospect, I was about the only thing she could say in the face of such tragedy.
Didja ever notice that the pro-abort freaks are FIRST ones to stop anyone from showing pictures of what an aborted dismembered smashed-skull baby actually looks like?
I wonder how many shirts they sold?
I’d counter with T-Shirts that say, “I Wish Your Mother Had An Abortion.”
That is so true.... and it is the root of the problem.
We've moved beyond getting America to tolerate bad things and are now moving toward not only normalizing them but even being proud of them.
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