September 6, 2012 - Wanna support Star? Donate to this indiegogo project to give the SBA-List 150,000 wire coat hangers to be potentially used for abortions if the SBA-List's policies go into effect. Remember their policies strive to make abortion illegal to be performed by a medical facility, not to reduce the abortion rate or realistically eliminate it completely. So please donate to demonstrate what their policies would actually do in just the nation's capital.
The comic itself and the link above contains most of the information for why I'm doing this, but I did want to take a moment to discuss the genesis of this idea. I initially came up with the idea of this comic as just something Star could do, sending a pro-life politician a coat hanger as a demonstration of the harmful nature of his or her policies. As I thought more and more about the idea, however, Star's reaction became less and less unreasonable. I then researched some of the more outspoken politicians who had factually inaccurate pro-life positions (all of this was before Akin made his absurd remarks) and realized that many of them receive campaign contributions from the Susan B. Anthony List. The objective of the Susan B. Anthony List is pretty straightforward, get pro-life politicians elected, making them a larger force of opposition than any single politician. They make no indication of understanding the complexity of the political issue or contributing to more benevolent tangentally related pro-life organizations such as support groups for young mothers or adoptive services. In fact their largest argument against Planned Parenthood is an irrelevant claim that planned parenthood is racist, and most of their arguments for abortion focus on the morality of the issue rather than research devoted to reducing it.
If you don't want to have an abortion, that's great. If you'd like others not to want to have an abortion, that's great too. In fact, I don't think anybody wants to have an abortion. So why not work towards preventing women from finding themselves in such a situation they'd even consider abortion (like reducing the unintended pregnancy rate, which is quite obviously a contributing factor as in order to get an abortion one first has to get pregnant) and doing things that actually reduce the abortion rate?
It may look like just outlawing abortion makes it go away, but if that were true laws would never be broken. Research has demonstrated that reducing access to abortion does nothing to reduce abortion rates, and in many instances makes abortion rates worse as it also reduces access to birth control. We all know that just because the world looks flat doesn't mean it's not round and just because the sun looks like it revolves around the earth, doesn't mean we're the center of the universe. Abortion is no different. Just because it looks like a woman can't get an abortion, doesn't mean she doesn't get one. If you want to reduce the abortion rate, do something that reduces the abortion rate instead of forcing women to unsafe abortions. I'd love to see Planned Parenthood close its doors because it was unnecessary, not because of some absurd lobby against it. But this is what the SBA-List wants, so I want to show them the consequences of their beliefs.
The Susan B. Anthony List is headquartered in Washington DC, a city of 600,000 people, a quarter of whom (using data gathered from sources linked on the indiegogo page) will have an unintended pregnancy. That leaves 150,000 women and the intention of this campaign is to send the Susan B. Anthony List a lifetime supply of hangers to help the women of the city where the Susan B. Anthony List is headquartered. Each hanger represents a woman who needs help, not punishment.
I don't have a lot to offer in terms of rewards. I may add some if people have cool suggestions. But the goal here is to raise money not get stuff. Please donate and more importantly, share this campaign with anyone whom you think would be willing to support it.
-D
The comic itself and the link above contains most of the information for why I'm doing this, but I did want to take a moment to discuss the genesis of this idea. I initially came up with the idea of this comic as just something Star could do, sending a pro-life politician a coat hanger as a demonstration of the harmful nature of his or her policies. As I thought more and more about the idea, however, Star's reaction became less and less unreasonable. I then researched some of the more outspoken politicians who had factually inaccurate pro-life positions (all of this was before Akin made his absurd remarks) and realized that many of them receive campaign contributions from the Susan B. Anthony List. The objective of the Susan B. Anthony List is pretty straightforward, get pro-life politicians elected, making them a larger force of opposition than any single politician. They make no indication of understanding the complexity of the political issue or contributing to more benevolent tangentally related pro-life organizations such as support groups for young mothers or adoptive services. In fact their largest argument against Planned Parenthood is an irrelevant claim that planned parenthood is racist, and most of their arguments for abortion focus on the morality of the issue rather than research devoted to reducing it.
If you don't want to have an abortion, that's great. If you'd like others not to want to have an abortion, that's great too. In fact, I don't think anybody wants to have an abortion. So why not work towards preventing women from finding themselves in such a situation they'd even consider abortion (like reducing the unintended pregnancy rate, which is quite obviously a contributing factor as in order to get an abortion one first has to get pregnant) and doing things that actually reduce the abortion rate?
It may look like just outlawing abortion makes it go away, but if that were true laws would never be broken. Research has demonstrated that reducing access to abortion does nothing to reduce abortion rates, and in many instances makes abortion rates worse as it also reduces access to birth control. We all know that just because the world looks flat doesn't mean it's not round and just because the sun looks like it revolves around the earth, doesn't mean we're the center of the universe. Abortion is no different. Just because it looks like a woman can't get an abortion, doesn't mean she doesn't get one. If you want to reduce the abortion rate, do something that reduces the abortion rate instead of forcing women to unsafe abortions. I'd love to see Planned Parenthood close its doors because it was unnecessary, not because of some absurd lobby against it. But this is what the SBA-List wants, so I want to show them the consequences of their beliefs.
The Susan B. Anthony List is headquartered in Washington DC, a city of 600,000 people, a quarter of whom (using data gathered from sources linked on the indiegogo page) will have an unintended pregnancy. That leaves 150,000 women and the intention of this campaign is to send the Susan B. Anthony List a lifetime supply of hangers to help the women of the city where the Susan B. Anthony List is headquartered. Each hanger represents a woman who needs help, not punishment.
I don't have a lot to offer in terms of rewards. I may add some if people have cool suggestions. But the goal here is to raise money not get stuff. Please donate and more importantly, share this campaign with anyone whom you think would be willing to support it.
-D
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