Should we abort? Vote now!

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Amethyst
I think it's a fundie PR stunt. Not real. It's just to try to put forward the very strange fundie view -- and try to 'prove' -- that people treat abortion flippantly. As if they have any idea... any idea at all.

"Look!" they'll cry. "At the click of a mouse, you people condemned a living, breathing, smiling, laughing chyld to death! Yes a real chyld! A real one! With a face and everything! Look how many people voted to kill the living, breathing, smiling, laughing chyld! You should be ashamed to be clicking your mouse like that! To be voting like that! See how flippantly you treat abortion? You make Jesus mad. God hates you." etc etc ad nauseum.

Yawn.

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Tracy Clark-Flory
This admission comes some days after, oh, the entire Internet unanimously decided that it was a stunt.
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The ultrasound images the couple shared and the updates they posted after doctor visits were apparently all real. But that whole bit about wanting the outside world to vote on the future of their fetus? Total lie. However, he says, "My intent is not to deceive people." Right ... that logically follows.

As I said last week, this prank is "a perfect illustration of just how poorly some anti-choicers understand the pro-choice position." Remember, aspiring "pro-life" pranksters: Assuming that pro-choicers are indiscriminately "pro-abortion" and referring to the fetus as an "unborn child" are immediate giveaways.

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Tracy Clark-Flory
On their blog birthornot.com, Pete and Alisha Arnold of Minnesota are asking anonymous Internet strangers to vote on whether or not they abort. The site is chock-full of ultrasound images and updates on their perfectly healthy 17-week-old fetus. It seems that they want a child, as they say they have had two miscarriages this year alone, and yet they are asking the Web to decide whether they keep it. They say this is a way for Americans to really make their vote matter.

Clearly, this screams "pro-life" Internet prank. The couple insisted to Gawker that they are for real, but their Web trail might suggest otherwise: Pete once posted his super-pro-G.W. thoughts on CNN, and Alisha is a fan of Glenn Beck on Facebook. If this is indeed a prank -- and either way, it's scary to think of these two procreating -- it's a perfect illustration of just how poorly some anti-choicers understand the pro-choice position. The belief is that the choice of whether or not to abort should be left up to a woman and her doctor, not to the entire Internet.

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yurble
http://www.theonion.com/articles/couple-puts-abortion-option-to-online-vote,18611/

After holding a vote on their website to determine whether or not they would obtain an abortion, Pete and Alisha Arnold of Apple Valley, MN will be carrying their zygote to term. What do you think?

"If you can't decide whether or not to have a baby, there's only one choice: have it but raise it as if you didn't want to have it. That's called compromise."

I the Onion.

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Ketchup
I agree that it's a publicity stunt. If you read about their history, the guy was very happy that his wife got pregnant after two miscarriages (both this year, and one of them was at *five* weeks...eyes2). They obviously both want kids.

I did see this lovely poem posted several times throughout the comments sections:

Letter to a Child Never Born Mommy Listen:

I never talked to you and perhaps never will;
but today I wanted to say hello. How are you?
I have noticed very worried and I know that you’ve decided to separate you from me.

I cried a lot, because although I am very small,
immensely large and I have feelings you know.
I have been told that life is beautiful,
though you live yours cursing.

Before you leave me I wanted to ask you something:
Why are you embarrassed of me?
Why do you blush in front of your friends and your friends?
“Am I not your son?
Am I not the blood of your blood,
body of your body and soul of your soul?

But very soon though
stop beating my little heart next to yours,
I always keep living in your memory and your conscience.
I would like to become your child,
your friend, your partner,
one reason for your dreams and the air of your life;
but you did not want.

After this I have a lot to tell;
only that, I had grown attached to you mother
but it is sad and it’s time.
Now just let
to support my lips over the deepest part of your body,
so that you can never release this kiss this goodbye.

Well, even if we become ever more friends
but never saw your face and never see it,
I remember that I always keep calling … .. Mommy!

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yurble
http://www.theonion.com/articles/couple-puts-abortion-option-to-online-vote,18611/

After holding a vote on their website to determine whether or not they would obtain an abortion, Pete and Alisha Arnold of Apple Valley, MN will be carrying their zygote to term. What do you think?

"If you can't decide whether or not to have a baby, there's only one choice: have it but raise it as if you didn't want to have it. That's called compromise."

I the Onion.

This WAS from The Onion after all? I just KNEW it.