Hubby and I are on the move, so that meant we had to go by a million or so of the “Prolife Across America” billboards. On our trip, there are some classics, like:
And
Both of these billboards make me want to risk the penalty for vandalism; the first because I want to put correction markings on, the second because I’m so tempted to draw a Hitler-stache and a Nazi armband on the baby.
There was a new billboard that we saw that confused Hubby so much that I just had to include the exchange here:
Hubby, looking at the sign, says to me “Do they want us to eat babies? Is that how we’re going to stimulate the economy?”
Me: You’re right! This must be what the problem has been; I thought “Prolife Across America” was a serious anti-choice organization, but this whole time it’s just been a satire. Poe’s Law strikes again, I guess.
I like this theory. From now on, instead of getting mad at these dumb billboards, I’m just going to laugh at their satire.
Ohhh speaking of vandalism, I really really really want to add a giant fork on the right side of that last billboard. Maybe some steam rising from the fresh babies.
I’m not even sure what the pro-life movement is trying to accomplish. Do they think abortion will go away simply by outlawing it. It will simply go underground.
That third one actually does make some sense – we need people to spend money to get the economy going and few things are as expensive as children. They have the benefit of being basically permanent, too – you can cut the cable and not go on vacation but once you got ‘em you can’t cut back the number of kids you’re trying to feed.
Yeah, but you can feed’em cheap, nasty crap: ramen noodles, for instance! 18 cents a bag at the local Wal-Mart now! Or five for a dollar! Practically nutrition free and kids love’m!
Sure, of course, but you’re still spending that $1 on 5 packages of ramen. I didn’t say they were the best economic stimulus package we could have. And they’re cuter and cuddlier than universal health care. Why can’t you look at the big picture?
“Ohhh speaking of vandalism, I really really really want to add a giant fork on the right side of that last billboard. Maybe some steam rising from the fresh babies.”
Amy, you’ve finally decided for me the question of why I don’t like infants.
It’s because I much prefer spring rolls.
There, that’s settled. And a great weight off my mind too, I must say.
anybody notice the Down’s baby on the far right? They clearly don’t care about ANYBODY’S quality of life, only quantity. I wonder if they simply couldn’t find a spinobifita baby. “Even medical abortion is wrong!”
TRH
You know, the authoritarian regime in communist Romania had what’s politely termed a “coercive pro-natalist policy”, because they wanted, in essence, a great big stimulus package of workers. The results were profoundly horrific.
I’m not sure what doesn’t make sense about these billboards? Obviously they are a little over the top cheesy. They are aimed at tugging on heart strings, but there is nothing confusing about the message. Pro-Life advocates believe that a fetus is a person from conception through natural death, and that is essentially what these billboards are conveying.
DeathCab-
How is a money and time suck a stimulus package? And, yeah, I get that what they’re TRYING to convey is that fetuses are precious little baybeez, but really, the way they’re doing sucks unless you’re actually already convinced of that. And really, would it kill them to use appropriate grammar and not be self-mockable?
I miss those Pro-Life Across America signs from when I used to live in the Twin Cities. “WHAT!” Try saying it with no question inflection like it’s written, I dare you. They do hate women AND correct punctuation.
All this signs are manipulation. I suppose the message they want to give is, “if you do abortion then you are killing this cute baby”. Anyway life is not in the heart, is in the brain. A fetus which the brain is not develop yet, can’t be considered a person.
Sorry for my English.