A hospital in Chongqing, China, recently released an advertisement offering half-price abortions for women who show a student ID, SF Gate reports.
The advertisement (above) reads:
Students are our future, but when something happens to them, who will help and protect them? Chongqing Huaxi Women’s Hospital has started Students Care Month, where those students who come to get an abortion can get 50% off if they show their student ids. Abortion surgeries are the most advanced in the world, won’t stretch (your womb), won’t hurt, it’s quick, and you can do what you want afterward, it won’t affect your studies or your work.
Now, I know many people have registered their outrage over this ad and many are saying that it’s China and that could never happen here. But the truth is that America puts essentially no limits on abortion. And we have a President who’s stated his desire to do away with even minor limitations such as state parental consent laws. And even where we do have parental consent laws, Lila Rose has show many times that that Planned Parenthood regularly ignores the law. And even when state authorities see the violation on video they routinely ignore it (with some exceptions)
Here’s the thing -once you devalue the fetus completely you can’t argue that abortion is wrong. America’s liberal abortion laws aren’t that much different from China. This is a crude advertisement crudely. But is that really where the line is drawn? Is the argument that we want to make really abortion’s fine but just don’t advertise the death of a baby in a crude fashion? Is the 50% off that much much more offensive than Planned Parenthood offering gift cards for abortion for Christmas.
Remember this? Patterico reported:
Gift certificates are good gifts when you aren’t sure what to buy that special woman in your life who puts everyone else first:
“Why not buy a loved one a gift this holiday season that they really need,” [Planned Parenthood of Indiana president and CEO Betty] Cockrum says in a press release LifeNews.com obtained. “The gift certificates are also a wonderful idea for that person in your life who puts everyone else first.”
“Please join Planned Parenthood of Indiana and give the gift of health this holiday season,” she adds.
The Chinese ad is offensive because it doesn’t hide what pro-aborts really think of abortion. To them, it’s merely a business arrangement.
For so long we’ve heard from our legislators that they’re personally against abortion and they offer lip service to abortion being tragic but sometimes necessary. They purse their lips and stare off into middle distance because it looks thoughtful to the cameras.
This ad simply removes that mask. It tears the facade off. This ad is disturbing because it makes people confront the true nature of the abortion industry. It’s about money. Lots of it. And this ad is offensive to some because it doesn’t obfuscate.
I want more ads like this one. At least they’re honest.
August 28, 2009 at 4:36 pm
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August 28, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Over there, the underlying philosophy is that only matter exists; it's no big whoop to flush a fetus. Over here, there are still believers, hence the need to obfuscate.
Give it time and we'll get there; if believers just cooperate with all the government "programs" in the pipeline – specially the educational ones.
(Now for my outbust. The only way for evil to win is for us to do nothing. Let us storm the gates of hell; the Lord promised that those will not prevail. We shall overcome.)
August 28, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I think outfits like Planned Parenthood are counting on the outcry from pro-life people and organizations to get steadily weaker over time. Maybe they figure eventually the public will be desensitized to them, in the same way people have gotten used to women prancing around in their underwear on TV for Fruit of the Loom or Victoria's Secret commercials. I agree there's a huge difference between underwear modeling and abortion. Maybe they're expecting pro-lifers to go all "extreme" and do something that will make us look like the violent ones (and abortionists to look like the peaceful and enlightened ones). To these people, we're the terrorists (and the unwanted/unplanned unborn aren't much better). The more they come out into the open and use the mistakes or badly chosen words of a few against all pro-lifers, the better their chances of portraying themselves as the reasonable ones.
For a while, now, they've been subjecting our kids in the public schools to garbage they don't want us parents to see. The more kids they desensitize to their brazenly anti-life, anti-God propaganda, the more confident they become in their ability to render outspoken Christians irrelevant.
August 28, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Sarah, there is definitely a huge difference between underwear modeling and abortion. I don't see any corelation at all. As a matter of fact, considering you see more "skin" at any given sunny day on the beach/at a pool, it really makes me scratch my head at why people rally at underwear ads.
Back to the abortion ad, I find it a bit puzzling actually since I thought China performed abortions for free like in the former USSR. It was widely known that Soviet women used abortions as birth control, since condoms were extremely scarce and female contraceptives non-existant. Maybe the PRC is realizing that the drastic imballance of male vs female population is in fact a dangerous thing? I know the one-child policy is not being enforced as a matter of law anymore (rich couples essentially "buy" an exemption to have more children). No, this really is interesting.
August 28, 2009 at 8:52 pm
No. That won't happen here in America. It would need to be marketed as a big abortion "BOGO Sale!" to market to Americans. Yuck…(That's Buy One Get One by the way.)
August 28, 2009 at 10:58 pm
No, Sarah's right to bring up underwear ads. It used to be that the worst you would have is a Sears Cataloge with illustrations of women smiling, now we have Victoria's Secret Commercials with half naked women trouncing all over the place. And women are being treated so much the better for it?
Like Rick said, "Give it time." The more we let this stuff happen, the less we'll like our society, or even have a place in it. I, for one, find myself able to watch less and less TV, because it's just too trashy. I can't watch anything on FX, HBO, or Showtime any more, cause I just get uncomfortable. Yeah, friends look at me weird for not being "with it", but whatever. Too dark. Too Godless.
Enough serious: What the heck is up with that picture? It's like, is she lost and looking for the most convenient way to destroy her child? Way dorky.