Young Turks: Anti-Abortion Fetus Dolls Handed Out In Elementary School

[CherylK]

Run time: 03:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFpdE5B7FLQ   Posted on YouTube: May 25, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 303   Posted on DU: May 27, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 889

 
http://www.examiner.com/x-5445-Politics-in-Education-Examiner~y2010m5d26-Fetus-dolls-passed-out-to-elementary-students

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Ewwwwwwwww, that's creepy.

[SPedigrees]

2. "The suspected staffer who is thought to be responsible for the anti-abortion propaganda

has been placed on administrative leave."

That is reassuring at least.

[Crowman1979]

3. I remember that creep Lou Engle passing out fetus dolls to the kids in "Jesus Camp"...

...and that was even more creepy.

[ihavenobias]

7. Great movie.

Scary movie.

[Crowman1979]

9. Probably the scariest psychological horror movie of all time.

Especially since it was real. :wow:

[Jankyn]

4. I've got one on my desk...

...to remind me of the dishonesty of the anti-abortion movement. My "doll" measures three inches in length and looks like an infant with an umbilical cord.

At that size, a fetus doesn't have skin, just a transparent membrane that will become skin. Its tail hasn't been reabsorbed completely. It looks more like a polliwog (which is where we get hiccups from) than a human.

The idea of a fetus as a homunculus is the number one fallacy that allows the right-to-lifers to promulgate their crap. Most people don't know enough about embryology and development to recognize that a fetus is not a "miniature" infant.

But locally, one anti-abortion activist stands at Planned Parenthood's gates with one of these "dolls," claiming that it's an example of the "babies" that entering patients are about to "kill."

Dishonesty and ignorance: the ugly twins of the anti-choicers.

[Alpha Numeric Wanda]

5. Really interesting Kristof article in today's NYTimes...

about a nun who has been excommunicated for assisting a pregnant woman in a harrowing life or death situation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/opinion/27kristof.html?scp=1&sq=catholic%20churce&st=cse

[ihavenobias]

10. Thanks for the link. n/t

[happygoluckytoyou]

6. just because BARBARA didn't abort DUBYA in time, shouldn't be a reason for her 2b against abortion

[Crowman1979]

8. How long before some kid sharpie's a mustache on that doll?