This is nothing short of sickening. A couple is pregnant with their first child and are now leaving it up to a vote whether to abort their child or not. They’ve established a website called BirthorNot.
While they say the final tally is not binding they will take it into consideration. The two post images of their baby’s ultrasound but still are threatening to abort.
I thought about putting the link in but I really don’t want to send traffic their way because that’s really what they’re after. If we give publicity to these kinds of things I think we’ll only get more of them.
Weasel Zippers has the story:
Pete and Alisha Arnold have created a website called Birthornot.com, where they’ve been posting updates on Alisha’s pregnancy since September. But this site is unlike any other expectant parent’s blog: this site has a poll that asks viewers, “Should we give birth or have an abortion?”
In an interview with Gawker.com, the Arnolds said they were unsure if they wanted to be parents. After two miscarriages, they said they launched the site to put the choice in voter’s hands.
“Voting is such an important part of who we are as a people,” Pete Arnold told the website. “Here’s a chance where people can be heard about whether they are pro-choice or whether they are pro-life, and it makes a difference in the real world.”
The Arnolds said in the interview that they are taking the poll seriously and that it was not a prank, but the final vote isn’t binding. The poll closes on December 7, two days before the end of the 20th week of pregnancy and their last chance to get an abortion.
So you know how pro-aborts are always saying that women don’t take abortion lightly, well this kind of puts the lie to that.
The ironic part is that the expectant mother running the site is complaining that another website is trying to skew the poll. Can you imagine? A website trying to skew a poll? Is nothing sacred?
November 18, 2010 at 6:38 pm
This makes me want to puke.
November 18, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I saw this earlier and I just don't know what to make of it. I know that I think it's a horribly disgusting idea regardless of if it's true or not. I do have to wonder though if it is a (and I cringe to even type this) disgusting and misguided pro-life stunt done terribly, terribly, wrong. Why would they spend so much money on multiple ultrasounds and ultrasound video etc which is not at all "standard care" for any normal pregnancy? There were several things that seemed to fit with this theory also when you look into their backgrounds….I agree fully with not supporting the site in any way. And maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part to want to believe it's all some sort of pathetic stunt….regardless I'm sickened by it…
November 18, 2010 at 6:47 pm
It has to be a stunt
November 18, 2010 at 6:51 pm
"It has to be a stunt"
Don't bet on it ma'am. It's a sick world we're in.
November 18, 2010 at 7:12 pm
The whole thing screams pulicity stunt to me. I went to the site earlier and everything about it seemed very contrived, down to their little autobiographies of themselves. It has to be a stunt, maybe as someone said, a prolife stunt done horribly wrong.
November 18, 2010 at 8:09 pm
How on earth does a couple get in to see their OB every single week, let alone have a sonogram each time? Please. Sounds like a big, fat lie to me. Granted, it's sick and twisted, but it looks like a giant hoax to get people stirred up.
November 18, 2010 at 9:18 pm
It may be a stunt, but it is instructive in this sense: We've heard no end of rachet-jaws who say that pro-lifers only care about the unborn child, but don't care about the mother or the unborn child once she's born (It's a bald lie of course given the number of programs out there and the fact that progressives go into rhetorical meltdown over crisis pregnancy centers, but I digress). But one of the problems with giving aid to pregnant mothers is the potential for hostage situations. That is, "give me loot, or the baby gets it!" Here, instead of seeking loot, they are seeking publicity. Expect more of these hostage showdowns as people become more hostile to goodness.
November 18, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Re: " A website trying to skew a poll?"
It could be our people trying to save the child or PP trying to get a customer.
I agree about the trivialization. So, it seems that the impicit meme here as it was with the tweets last week is that abortion is no big deal so, pro-lifers should stop having hissy fits.
They're trying to snuff out the last cries to save the child by numbing themselves with a purely quantitative approach to decision making thereby equating without any other qualification the pro-aborts position with that of pro-lifers.
November 19, 2010 at 12:49 am
It looks like a pro-life hoax to me, actually. They're posting ultrasound images of the baby "along the way," which most liberals usually do NOT want you to see.
November 19, 2010 at 1:15 am
this makes me cry that someone would so flippantly allow people to vote whether their baby lives or dies.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I love you very much. I beg you to spare the life of the unborn baby that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion. Amen.
November 19, 2010 at 3:28 am
Hoax.
November 19, 2010 at 9:27 am
If it's a pro-life hoax – which I doubt – it isn't a very helpful one. Upsetting, in bad taste, it probably will show the pro-aborts for what they are – to everyone but themselves. Pro-lifers already know what they are so the question is if the squishies are converted? Probably not.
November 19, 2010 at 8:13 pm
According to an article in a MN newspaper the woman had three miscarriages, is 17 weeks pregnant, and her husband is out of town. You'd think after that many miscarriages she'd welcome new life. Hormonal? Prayer for their conversion and the child. These are not the sort of people I'd want raising a child. They clearly need help.
November 19, 2010 at 9:41 pm
I posted this on my Blog yesterday, too. Disgusting, isn't it?
Jill Stanek thinks it is a publicity stunt.
Stunt or not, it takes a sick mind to consider something like this.
November 19, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Ooops, here's the link to Jill's thoughts: http://www.colleenhammond.com/pro-life/abortion/couple-having-internet-vote-on-whether-or-not-they-abort-their-child/
(I tried to embed it in my comments. Guess I don't know HTML as well as I thought! [blush])
November 19, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Sheesh: http://www.jillstanek.com/2010/11/about-that-couple-taking-votes-whether-to-abort/
November 23, 2010 at 7:26 am
It sickens me, and it makes me wonder why I am not more affected by it. There is so much evil out there I am saddened to think I am numbed to the sickness of it all.
November 23, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Lots of people are saying it's a hoax:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332329/Hoax-Couple-Birth-Not-abortion-voting-website-internet-fraudsters.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
I sure hope so.