Outrage! Gasp!

The Failboat has docked at Stanek’s Floating Fetus Amniotic Juice Bar & Mobile Marine Tuneup, where there’s red-hot outrage! at the story that someone at a Planned Parenthood in Phoenix finally got pissed off and said “Feelin’ lucky, fetus fetishist?“

SHRIEEEEK!:

Yes, just imagine if an anti-choicer were to pull a gun on a pro-choicer!  Because that’s never actually, you know, happened before.  *cough*times 8*cough*

But what gets Jill’s Capslock of Outrage fully engaged is the fact that there are no names or pictures of the suspect that she can post at her site so her unhinged readership can find this guy and mow him down in a hail of Jesus-driven, anti-abortion “love”.   Just more proof of the pro-abortion bias of the anti-Christian libtardhomofeminazi media.

Answering the “fetal rights” argument

Having failed after 40 years to convince most of us that abortion is equivalent to infanticide, for the last little while the anti-choice movement has been shifting its focus to “personhood” and “fetal rights“.

To me, the primary reason that fetal rights is a non-starter is pretty straightforward.  In any conflict of interest between a pregnant woman and the embryo/fetus she’s carrying, the woman’s rights must supercede; otherwise, pregnant women would have less right to self-determination than non-pregnant ones.  To put it in slightly more incendiary terms, fetal rights would reduce pregnant women to second-class citizens beholden to a fetus — ambulatory incubators.

Recently Wendy McIlroy of iFeminists looked at the implications of  fetal rights from a libertarian standpoint.   Such as:

Implication #5: anti-abortionists are destroying the concept of natural rights itself which claims that every human being properly has jurisdiction over his or her own body. It is only because each human being is a self-owner that is is improper to initiate force against another. But if the fetus possesses the right to live off the pregnant woman’s body functions — to share the food she eats, the blood her heart pumps — then this is tantamount to saying that one human being can properly own the body functions of another. It is tantamount to saying one human being can properly enslave another.

McIlroy raises some issues that make good arguments against fetal rights, not just in terms of womens’ reproductive freedom, but the wider scope of individual liberty; you can read the whole thing here.

Obama at Notre Dame

Against the backdrop of outrage generated among extreme anti-choicers by the prospect of President Obama’s commencement address at (the very Catholic) Notre Dame University, a lot of people were wondering what would happen today, what the freaks would do, and how Obama would follow their act — by ignoring the issue causing all the furore, or addressing it.  How does one respond to the ongoing psychotic episodes and intimidation tactics that characterize extremist anti-choice nutbars like Randall “Fetus-in-a-Jar” Terry?

The verdict is in:  Obama hit one out of the park at Notre Dame today.  The threatened “circus” didn’t materialize, no pickled fetuses were thrust in anyone’s face, and though spittle-flecked shrieks were heard in the distance, none disrupted the proceedings.  Not only did Obama address the controversy, he did it in such a positive, upbeat and rational tone that he effectively turned it back on his opponents, who ended up looking petty and ridiculous (not to mention several parts crazy and stupid).  Pwn’d, as they say.

There can be no doubt about it — Amateur Hour is over and the grownups are back in charge.

Transcript here.

Media coverage

There, fetus fetishists, you got your mainstream media coverage:

Thousands swarmed Parliament Hill on Thursday to protest 40 years of legal abortion in Canada.

“We were hoping to grow the 8,000 we had last year and we did it,” said triumphant organizer Jim Hughes, who pegged the crowd at 10,000.

Even a steady rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of the protesters. From under their umbrellas they cheered the politicians who stood to speak against abortion.

“I’ve grown up in the shadow of liberalized abortion,” thundered Conservative MP Jeff Watson.

“Life is defined as being from conception to natural death,” said Liberal MP Paul Szabo.

“Defined”?  By who?  The Pope?   “Liberal” Paul Szabo?   Good grief, what an asshole.

Anyway… Jim Hughes’ “estimate” of 10,000 is a good showing compared to what they usually get, but sadly for the zygote zealots, it’s a long long way from being a game-changer.  (No, abortion is not “going down”, cretins.  You know you say that every year, right?)  Given that they’ve been flogging this event for months, that it was the 40-year anniversary of the Omnibus bill, that it follows the Morgentaler Order of Canada last year, (not to mention events outside our borders that show the tide of public opinion is against them, ie. Obama), one would expect this year’s “March for Life” crowd to be maxed out.

And it probably was.

If I were an anti-choicer, I’d be very discouraged today.

Aside from that, there’s more good news:   the super-secret “pro-life caucus” is no longer all that super-secret, at least 18 of them having attended this little hootenanny.  D’oh!

I see a parallel ad

…to this latest anti-choice propaganda offering:

Okay, I’ll play: what do Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Charles Manson, Osama Bin Laden, Timothy McVeigh, James Kopp, Paul Bernardo, Jeffrey Dahmer, James Jones, John Wayne Gacy, Paul Hill, Marc Lepine, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Richard Speck, Seung-Hui Cho, Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz, Jack the Ripper, Jim D. Adkisson, and Mark Chapman have in common?

They weren’t aborted either!  Well what do you know!

The weirdest thing about this ad is that many of those cited in it weren’t “adopted” in the sense of being unwanted pregnancies carried to term and given up to strangers.  Rather they were brought up by relatives or adopted by step-dads (John Lennon, Jamie Foxx, Nancy Reagan, Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Newt Gingrich, Willy Nelson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jack  Nicholson and Tim McGraw, for starters.)

But you were expecting honesty from the fetus fetishizing crowd?  Puh-lease!

That’s just sad

I don’t often feel sorry for fetus fetishists (okay, never), but I was almost… almost… driven to that point when I read this, from lifeshite:

This morning representatives from the office of the Canadian Governor General received a petition of 18,222 names opposing the award of the Order of Canada to the man most responsible for the legalization of abortion in Canada – abortionist Henry Morgentaler.  The petition marks the second large petition submitted in opposition to the award.  A petition launched by Campaign Life Coalition with 30,000 names was submitted in August.

In over 10 months, they’ve been able to gather less than 50,000 signatures combined on petitions protesting what was supposedly the most red-hot and galvanizing Canadian anti-choice issue in years (cue ominous music, key of A minor):  the Morgentaler Order of Canada.  Shit, I’ve signed anti-war petitions that boomed past 50,000 signatures in a day.

It’s not like they didn’t relentlessly flog the shit out of this thing, either — they were shrieking about it all summer and fall.  They petitioned, they protested, they polled (massively), they astroturfed, they tried to get the Order revoked and when that didn’t work, they tried to get other recipients to return theirs in protest (9 returns to date, 4 from beyond the grave)… they turned on the Governor-General and they turned on Justice Mclachlin.  Their outrage went on and on and on and on… and then it just kind of crapped out like a wet fart.  If the whole doomed sorry-ass campaign could somehow be distilled into a single image, it would be primo material for FAILblog… “EPIC FAIL“.

And to top it all off, now along comes this new petition that brings their total number of signatures all the way up to about 1/4 of 1% of the voting-age population.

That’s just sad… 😦

But I’ll take it!  BWAHAHA!

I’ve Got Mail

Someone takes exception to my use of the term “anti-choice”:

A quick google search revealed that “Liz Wheeler” has posted this little missive elsewhere, in the comments section of another blog post about Unhinged Gingi. Gingi’s fan club!

I’ve always thought the term “anti-choice” was a little onerous, but in fact these misogynist scum are opposed to many more reproductive choices than just abortion — they’re anti-contraception and basically anti-sex-for-any-reason-other-than-procreation. (How often have you seen one of them argue that a “woman’s right to choose” ends with choosing to keep her legs together?) Anti-choice is a far more accurate descriptor than “anti-abortion”, or (*eyeroll*) “anti-feticide/embryocide(!!)”, as per the site “Liz” invites me to visit. No misunderstanding on my part.

But I’m all for clarification, so to put it in terms even “Liz” can understand:

UPDATE: By popular demand, more gibberish from Liz:

You can always tell things are getting serious when the caps lock key gets stuck momentarily.  Anyway, I invited her over:

but I doubt she’ll show.  Boo hoo hoo!

Timing FAIL

Sheeeeeee’s back! Gingi the Unhinge-ied, the deranged anti-abortion douchebag and Jesus Camp hatebot who gloated over the plane crash that killed several family members of a clinic owner (he had it coming), jabbers away about the appropriately disgusted response to her idiotic screed:

Following my report on the Feldkamp tragedy, (see my article dated March 24, 2009) I received a number of personal death threats – imagine that, coming from the pro-death crowd! Total shocker!

Boo hoo hoo, threats.  You mean like this?  Or doesn’t it count if it’s a veiled threat?

But never mind that: get those helmets on and watch out for flying irony shrapnel as Gingi goes full metal batshit, decrying so-called pro-choice violence and all but denying the existence of ‘anti-choice violence’ (scare-quoted, like ‘health of the mother’)…

Any virtuous thing that a pro-abort stands for is almost guaranteed to have a deep, ugly hypocrisy attached. At this moment I’d have to say my favourite is the hypocrisy of pro-aborts running around physically and verbally assaulting pro-lifers, all the while pretending to live in perpetual terror of ‘anti-choice violence’.

… on the very same day that “anti-choice terrorist” James Kopp lost his “appeal” of the “life sentence” he’s “doing” for the “murder” of “Dr. Barnett Slepian”.

Didn’t think that one through, eh Gingidouche?

(via pharyngula)

Circle wagons, fire inwards

What’s an extreme right-wingnut to do when they can’t get anyone to pay attention to their insufferable whining about abortion?  Easy: turn on other extreme right-wingnuts over whether they’re anti-abortion enough.

American Right To Life, radical anti-abortion absolutists who are so far out there that they’ve criticized Focus on the Family for not being sufficiently anti-choice, recently took to the radio talk shows to go after Ann Coulter for her support of pro-choice presidential candidate Mitt Romney last year.   This clip has some short takes of the on-air ambushes, during which the foetishists drove Coulter even more bugshit than she is already:

Whew.  When you’re insane enough to make Ann Coulter look almost normal, you’ve truly crossed the Rubicon into the most hideous heart of fetus fetishizing darkness.  Uh, whoops, I meant to say — keep up the good work, RTL!

(via RH Reality Check)

PSA

Via facebook, a message from Choice Joyce about the Ottawa Morgentaler Clinic, which is currently under siege by fetus fetishists:

The Ottawa Morgentaler Clinic has asked for letter-writing assistance in countering the anti-choice 40 Days for Life vigil, as well as the Mother’s Day protest in front of their clinic. The City of Ottawa has given the anti’s a permit to protest there. Please send a copy of your letter to Police Services, because they have often failed to respond quickly and adequately to calls from the Clinic about protester harassment of patients (although apparently they have recently improved).

The problem is not that protesters want to protest, it’s the location. One’s freedom of speech should not infringe on another person’s right to access a legal and required medical service. If they want to protest, they can do that anywhere, but they should not be allowed to interfere with women accessing services, especially at such a vulnerable time when women need privacy. Laws and court injunctions in other jurisdictions have recognized this. Further, patients’ stress and fear caused by protesters increase the risk of surgical complications, and picketers outside clinics increase the risk of violence or vandalism against clinics.

Please ask the City to rescind the permits because clinic protests violate women’s rights and endanger their health, and foster violence against the clinic and its staff.

Also if you can, please write Letters to the Editor: http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/letters.html. Get the word out that the CITY is failing women and is more afraid of pissing off anti-choicers than it is about protecting the safety of women.

Here are the addresses:

Patricia B, Permit Services
City of Ottawa
City Operations, Public Works
Traffic and Parking Operations Branch
100 Constellation Cres, 5th Floor West
Nepean, ON K2G 6J8

Tel 1-613-580-2424, ext 28164
Fax: 1-613-560-1333

AND

Superintendant K. Roberts
Ottawa Police Service
Central Patrol Division
P.O Box 9634, Station “T”
Ottawa, ON K1G 6H5
Fax: 1-613-760-8098

Although anti-choicers have a right to assembly and peaceful protest, they do not have a right to impede safe medical treatment or harass patients with their craziness. A Mother’s Day Protest? One can only imagine the ghoulishness… shouts of “Mommy, Mommy, don’t kill me!” etc. at women entering the clinic.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your keyboards.

The Daily Disgust

Need a little rage to go with your morning coffee? Read on…

By now everyone’s heard about that tragic, horrible plane crash in Montana on Sunday: 14 people killed, 9 of them members of the same family, 7 of them
children 9 and under:

Fourteen people, including seven children, heading for a ski trip died Sunday when their single-engine plane crashed into a Montana graveyard and burst into a fireball, federal officials said.

One would think that all after such a tragedy there’d be only sympathy and compassion for the surviving family. One would be wrong.

Among those who lost several loved ones in the crash is Irving Feltkamp, who owns a chain of clinics that offer abortion services. And supposedly the graveyard where the plane crashed contained a monument to aborted fetuses (a pretty common thing in Catholic cemeteries). These factoids are completely irrelevant to the story, but you know where this is going, don’t you? Opportunity knocked — what better time to put the boots to someone in the name of advancing the “pro-life” cause than when they’re heartbroken and reeling from a devastating loss?

It wasn’t long before the rotten shit-eating scum were crowing with malevolent satisfaction, slyly suggesting that the horrible crash was some kind of divine retribution. Abortion clinic owner? Plane crash at the “Tomb of the Unborn”? Coinicidence? This lowlife douchebag thinks not, gloating:

I don’t want to turn this tragic event into some creepy spiritual ‘I told you so’ moment, but

… but I’ll just go ahead and do it anyway, right? Maggot.

One would think that anyone with an ounce of Christian charity would denounce this story as the cruel and opportunistic use of tragedy to push an ideological agenda, but one would again be wrong.

The tale of how the “abortionist” felt the wrath of god’s great shit-hammer as it smote his family instantly caused an anti-choice internet pile-on of such brain-damaged magnitude that it has to be seen to be believed. The story was repeated with grim satisfaction by various fetusblogs — it hasn’t occurred to any of them that this might be a less than charitable way to recognize the tragic loss of 14 people, including 7 real live children.

Fetus fetishists: “choosing life” and gloating over death. SCUM!

(via andrew sullivan)

Cause co-opt FAIL

Anti-choicers can be accused of a lot of things, but originality isn’t one of them. Here’s yet another example of ham-fisted anti-choice co-opting of popular/well-known causes and slogans, this time PETA and the seal hunt:

Seal pups. Cute, cuddly, fluffy things with black eyes staring forlornly at us from a patch of ice that’s probably melting due to global warming, hoping to avoid the hunter’s club. We can’t help feel compassion. Over at ProWomanProLife, we want to know why such compassion does not extent to people.

(Except by “people”, the writer means “embryos”. Or even “fetuses”, about 10% of the time. Get it? Remember that. Ha.) Onward:

In the hope of extending compassion all the way to our own species, today we launched a new T-shirt campaign to draw attention to the plight of women and children, “People for the Ethical Treatment of People.” Because we believe people are, well, people too.

Women are told by old-school feminists and, too often, their own family members, that killing their unborn child is a valid “choice.” Every day in this country, hundreds of women put their feet up in stirrups and have the contents of their uterus vacuumed out in an act so callous and bloody we don’t even talk about it.

“Old-school feminists” — you know, like me. Like… pedgehog. Oh no, guess not. Or the pro-choicers profiled here. Oops again! Lotta young pro-choice whippersnappers in that article!

The characterization of pro-choice feminists as “old-school” is a propaganda angle that anti-choicers feel might work on younger women, but reality doesn’t bear it out. The pro-choice movement is as young and vibrant as ever, and the anti-choice movement is… still about taking away womens’ reproductive choices. They can wrap that up in whatever T-shirt slogans they want, it’s still authoritarianism and tyranny.

Besides, baby seals might not be the best cause to co-opt given that they aren’t hunted commercially, though their image has long been used by anti-seal hunt activists to rouse sympathy. Ask someone who knows, first hand:

Fact time folks:

1. baby seals are not killed as part of the Canadian commercial seal hunt, it is illegal to kill a baby seal in this hunt
2. a seal ban will destroy local Inuit economies
3. a seal ban will create great personal financial hardship for many Inuit people
4. an “Inuit exemption” will not help if the seal pelt market dies
5. (and just in case I need to mention it) Inuit are not seals

On the other hand, maybe the analogy is totally appropriate given that anti-choicers do the same thing with images of late-term fetuses as anti-seal hunt activists do with baby seal pictures: disingenuous propagandizing. Certainly the abortion fables anti-choicers disseminate (Old-school feminists! Right up to 9 months! SHRIEK!) have about as much basis in reality as the mythical “baby seal hunt”.

Rotten shit-eating scum

I really have no other words for the catholic church after reading this:

A 9-year-old girl who was carrying twins, allegedly after being raped by her stepfather, underwent an abortion Wednesday despite complaints from Brazil’s Roman Catholic church.

Fatima Maia, director of the public university hospital where the abortion was performed, said the 15-week-old pregnancy posed a serious risk to the 80-pound girl.

“She is very small. Her uterus doesn’t have the ability to hold one, let alone two children,” Maia told the Jornal do Brasil newspaper.

But Marcio Miranda, a lawyer for the Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife in northeastern Brazil, said the girl should have carried the twins to term and had a cesarean section.

As hideous and loathsome as the church’s response is, it doesn’t come as a total surprise — enabling child abuse is all in a day’s work for these sanctimonious creeps.

UPDATE: Thought it couldn’t get any sicker? The BBC has a few more details, which I am too filled with blind red screaming rage to even comment on. Here:

Police believe that the girl at the centre of the case had been sexually abused by her step-father since she was six years old.

He is also suspected of abusing the girl’s physically handicapped older sister who is now 14.

The Catholic Church tried to intervene to prevent the abortion going ahead but the procedure was carried out on Wednesday.

Now a Church spokesman says all those involved, including the child’s mother and the doctors, are to be excommunicated.

GAHHH!!! UPDATE: Money quote:

Gomes Sobrinho, who belongs to the most conservative sector within the Brazilian Roman Catholic Church, said those who have been excommunicated will not be allowed to take communion or to receive other sacraments, although they may yet avoid going to hell.

Drink. I need a drink.

“Un-fucking-believable” Update: Speaks for itself:

Nothing about the little girl.

Calling these people “rotten shit-eating scum” is an insult to all rotten shit-eating scum.

FRIDAY PSA-itude: Right here.

Irony, R.I.P.

What can you say about a piece like this:

… directly following the shrieky, brain-damaged whacked-outtitude of something like this:

… except that Irony is Officially Dead.

So let’s ponder its exhumed skull for a moment, and soliloquize in its honour:

Alas, poor Irony! We knew it, SUZANNE.

We found infinite jest in her most excellent fantasies

And the Abortion Debate hath bored us to tears a thousand times,

And now how abhorrent her imagination is!

Her glurge rises in it.

(With apologies to Willie Shakespeare)

(h/t DammitJanet)

HAHAHAHA!

Looks like this

is nothing new. 

“The only difference is that the fetuses can’t get together and march”?? Oh, fuck.