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Lockstep

I was flicking through pro-choice websites and came across prochoice.com....which is vehemently pro-life.

I'm fairly ambivalent to the whole abortion question but that doesn't sit right with me, seems fairly sneaky to be posting a website under the name of the other camp and filling it with your own viewpoints. (women looking for information, being lured in by the name and then being given the opposite view)

Any thoughts on it?

Caoimhín

kickoutthejams wrote: »

I was flicking through pro-choice websites and came across prochoice.com....which is vehemently pro-life.

I'm fairly ambivalent to the whole abortion question but that doesn't sit right with me, seems fairly sneaky to be posting a website under the name of the other camp and filling it with your own viewpoints. (women looking for information, being lured in by the name and then being given the opposite view)

Any thoughts on it?

Do you know who the father is Kickoutthejams?

Ya slut...

Anto McC

This could get messy. The thread that is,nothing else.

Orion

It's typical of the pro-life tactics tbh. They are the only ones who know the truth - how dare you question them :rolleyes:

But that particular one is pretty disgusting alright.

Kiera

I can see this thread causing a very heated debate.

Lockstep

I'm neither pro-choice or pro-life. I find the whole concept way to complicated for me, I just found the tactic incredibly shameful.

Genghiz Cohen

Did you know, you can get breast cancer from an abortion?
I didn't, good thing that website is helping me make informed decisions!

monkeyfudge

One day I hope to meet a girl who loves abortion as much as I do...

Biggins

This thread could get very serious.
Whatever my viewpoint, I respectfully decline to add to the debate here.

jaffa20

God, that site is awful. I hate that picture of the baby moving in the womb.

http://prochoice.com/parent_life.html

thelordofcheese

kickoutthejams wrote: »

I'm neither pro-choice or pro-life. I find the whole concept way to complicated for me, I just found the tactic incredibly shameful.

The most shameful thing about that website is the design.

Christ, it's ugly.

orestes

Abortions for some, miniature flags for others

nomorebadtown

Prior to birth, the combined genetic material of two people residing and growing in the host females uterus is not a baby. Its a toaster.

Reminds me of a referendum about 6 years ago, I think it was on some side points - trying to overturn the allowance abortion in case of mother's life in danger etc etc
Saw some leaflets being passed around "we'll give a fair and unbiased view on this matter in this leaflet" they said. Fair enough. I read the prolife side, ok. Turn it around to see the presumably prochoice side. Doesn't exist. The other side concludes with "and this is why you should vote yes on the referendum"
:rolleyes::rolleyes:
Typical tactics, you'd think they'd get the message they're talking a load of BS when they have to resort to that

Dave!

What makes you think it's pro-life...?

Imagine feeling safe and the next moment someone is killing you and you can't get away or cry for help.

Oh right... that...

KnifeWRENCH

Macros42 wrote: »

It's typical of the pro-life tactics tbh. They are the only ones who know the truth - how dare you question them :rolleyes:

QFT.

Sneaky tactics like this really piss me off. I have zero tolerance/respect for organisations like Youth Defence and that crowd who led people to believe that abortion was involved in the Lisbon Treaty - using intimidation and feeding people total bull**** just to ram their (imo completely wrong) views down everyone's throats. :mad::mad::mad:

That site is a disgrace - if only there was an internet equivalent of the Advertising Standards Authority.

SoWatchaWant

That is really sneaky, I think. I don't know how that will help their cause, I'd be more likely to support their arguments if they'd chosen www.prolife.com

EDIT: Oh, what do you know, that's also already taken...

They could merge?

Wagon

This is common practice on the internet. There is IT laws but they are more there to protect businesses and consumers. People can easily fill their website with whatever crap they want, regardless of it's initial advertisement.

Judging by this travesty of a "website", it is basic stuff. More than likely some group of **** learned some HTML off a book, made a website, decided to call it pro choice and input the information that they will know will deter people. It was not professionally done, it was a very amateur job at best and just another way to get people on their side. And as it's impossible to monitor every single website ever they get away with it.

It's the sort of tactics idiots like PETA use. **** stuff :mad:

Mrmoe

This is one of the things that gets me about the whole abortion debate. Who in their right mind would not be pro choice and pro life. Both sides are sugar coating their campaigns in order to gain support. I think this is despicable and dishonest. As adults with the ability to vote we should be given the cold hard facts about this very serious question. The central issue is whether you are for or against the abortion of fetuses. That is it no more no less.

Zillah

I think it's quite clever of them actually. Besides, they believe they're stopping murder, so as long as they're not bombing abortion clinics I don't really mind.

After all, an atheist group did register www.catholic.ie

ScumLord

thelordofcheese wrote: »

The most shameful thing about that website is the design.

Christ, it's ugly.

Well it's not easy making a website when you've got 13 children running around the place screaming at you.

Milky Moo

when you think your cause is morally righteous you can rationalise away all the sneaky and underhanded things you are doing as part of the greater good.
It really is disgusting though peddling your agenda to someone who is going through such a horrible and uncertain time,down with this sort of thing i say!!

MagicMarker

Whatever you do, don't google image search abortion.

deco05ie

Im pretty sure this website was made by Chris Morris

Why would anyone in their right mind, side with a pedophile?

http://prochoice.com/abort_legal.html

BubbleWrap85

That is a truly awful website. I would say they shouldn't be allowed to have it up but there's a lot of sick stuff out there on the WWW. It's disgusting. I wouldn't be totally against abortion as if I was unlucky enough to fall pregnant at the moment, I've got to admit I wouldn't want the baby. Suppose people just have to try extra hard NOT to get pregnant in the first place so they hopefully never have to make such a decision. Prevention better than the cure and all that...

kickoutthejams

kickoutthejams wrote: »

I was flicking through pro-choice websites and came across prochoice.com....which is vehemently pro-life.

I'm fairly ambivalent to the whole abortion question but that doesn't sit right with me, seems fairly sneaky to be posting a website under the name of the other camp and filling it with your own viewpoints. (women looking for information, being lured in by the name and then being given the opposite view)

Any thoughts on it?

And what about the websites supplying abortion pills to Irish women without face to face medical consultation.

themont85

As a anti abortion person myself even I have to say i hate all those organisations particlarly some of the pro life ones. Tactics on both sides are shameful at times over something so complex.

KnifeWRENCH

MagicMarker wrote: »

Whatever you do, don't google image search abortion.

Because you told me not to, I just had to go ahead and do it.

OK, the images aren't very pretty but I'm not anyway shocked or disgusted tbh. Abortion is not pleasant, but I'd still fully support it being legalised here and everywhere.

Lockstep

Moonbaby wrote: »

And what about the websites supplying abortion pills to Irish women without face to face medical consultation.

Should I start a thread outlining every abortion scandal I ever come across?

papu

Seriously its disgusting , Im only stating my point of view and that is that the Mothers Decision is the Final one.
I dont want to convince anyone this is the right one , however ,

I do hate with a complete passion , People who argue "prolife":mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
I added another 15 of those but deleted them thats now much.

Basically I can't stand anyone who thinks they have the right to right to run other peoples lives , especially if they disagree.

MagicMarker

square_igloo wrote: »

Because you told me not to, I just had to go ahead and do it.

OK, the images aren't very pretty but I'm not anyway shocked or disgusted tbh. Abortion is not pleasant, but I'd still fully support it being legalised here and everywhere.

As would I.

ART6

Probably moving off thread here but what the hell....

I am not a woman, so I cannot have any concept of the desire to bear a child or the desire to not bear one.

Religion should not play any part in the abortion debate. Which priest ever bore a child or terminated a foetus?

There are simply too many people on this planet and as a result human life is becoming devalued. Let us remove the sacristy of human life from the discussion. Thousands are dying across the world from far worse things than abortion.

For the men-- If you were told that your 25 year old wife is pregnant but has complications, and will die if she is not terminated, which would you choose -- the embryo or the woman you expected to spend your life with?

Should there be abortion on demand? No, of course not, since then it would become another means of contraception and it has to be taken more seriously that that. The possibility of refusal has to be a deterrent.

An open ended post, I accept, but I have no more idea than anyone else about how to deal with this. All I do feel sure of is that scaremongering, religion, aggression, should not be part of the debate.

ilovecars

"ABORTIONS FOR ALL" i say

papu

ilovecars wrote: »

"ABORTIONS FOR ALL" i say

Abortions for some
Miniture Irish flags for others!

wylo

Granted , that prochoice.com site is very sneaky, but overall I hate the way the pro lifers are being blindly crucified in this thread as if they are some kind of extreme religious fundamentalists. They still have a right to believe that a human life should be protected. There is nothing evil about that whatsoever.
Anyone who is adopted will appreciate this.
I do not have a full defined opinion, but I guess overall Im pro choice, but only for certain circumstances,e.g. If it can risk the life of the mother, if there was case of rape, if the girl is very young (but I dont see a problem with adoption here).
But you have to admit its absolutely nuts that a girl can legally travel to England or wherever and end of the life of an unborn child because its not convenient, its like something that would have went 1000s of years ago.

Dennis the Stone

Dave! wrote:

Imagine feeling safe and the next moment someone is killing you and you can't get away or cry for help...

...YOU'VE JUST IMAGINED THE ALL NEW GAMESHOW ON RTE, PRESENTED BY WACKY ECCENTRIC CHILD-CATCHERS COLM AND JIM-JIM.

COMING SOON TO RTE ONE!!! :P:P:P

themont85

wylo wrote: »

Granted , that prochoice.com site is very sneaky, but overall I hate the way the pro lifers are being blindly crucified in this thread as if they are some kind of extreme religious fundamentalists. They still have a right to believe that a human life should be protected. There is nothing evil about that whatsoever.
Anyone who is adopted will appreciate this.
I do not have a full defined opinion, but I guess overall Im pro choice, but only for certain circumstances,e.g. If it can risk the life of the mother, if there was case of rape, if the girl is very young (but I dont see a problem with adoption here).
But you have to admit its absolutely nuts that a girl can legally travel to England or wherever and end of the life of an unborn child because its not convenient, its like something that would have went 1000s of years ago.

As I said im very anti abortion myself but those type of tactics do the pro life camp no favours. I'd also add that i equally despise the pro choice 'its the womans body' camp. I just turn of when i hear the lot of them, i've come to my own opinion on the matter and I believe everybody can without the help of scare tactics and a flutter of BS leaflets.

Overblood

The same kind of idea as this site: www.catholic.ie (except this site is good!)

KnifeWRENCH

wylo wrote: »

But you have to admit its absolutely nuts that a girl can legally travel to England or wherever and end of the life of an unborn child because its not convenient, its like something that would have went 1000s of years ago.

No, I think it's absolutely nuts that a girl has to travel to England or wherever to go for a surgery that should be available over here.
And who are you to say that every abortion takes place because the child would be inconvenient?

Mark200

I'm not pro-abortion, but I'm pro-choice. I'm not gonna say that a young girl having to give birth while she is in school or college will ruin her life, but it could dramatically change things for the worse. As well as that, you'd be forcing her to give birth to a child she does not want and would not love.

Yes of course adoption is always a choice, but adoption doesn't always work. And even if it did, I think it's a terrible idea to force a girl to go through 9 months of having to take care of her own body in order to give birth to a healthy baby that she never wanted.

As well as that, I don't buy into the whole "you're killing a life" argument. You're not. You're killing the opportunity of life. But you're also doing that every time you have a **** or every time you use protection...in those cases, again, you're stopping the opportunity of life. So whether you kill the sperm by putting it in a condom or by having some sort of operation a few weeks later, I don't think it makes a significant difference.

A fetus doesn't feel pain until the 28th week of pregnancy, so in my opinion an abortion should be allowed before the 28th week.

mumhaabu

This website upset me greatly as it shows all the innocent young lifes lost to abortion, from the minute the sperm and egg join then life is created and we must protect this under all circumstances. These babies are being killed without ever been given the chance to live or prove themselves. Abortion is murder and I will never ever change my views and there is options for women who are genuinely unable to support or look after children. Millions of couples are unable to conceive and are on long agonising waiting lists for Adoption, adoption or Government support to help the Mother is what is needed not Abortion.

I am glad and proud that Ireland bans Abortion from general availaibilty. Aborting a foetus is no different to shooting someone dead, it is killing and abortionists and Mothers who choose to have abortions are killers simple as.

Slow Motion

mumhaabu wrote: »

This website upset me greatly as it shows all the innocent young lifes lost to abortion, from the minute the sperm and egg join then life is created and we must protect this under all circumstances. These babies are being killed without ever been given the chance to live or prove themselves. Abortion is murder and I will never ever change my views and there is options for women who are genuinely unable to support or look after children. Millions of couples are unable to conceive and are on long agonising waiting lists for Adoption, adoption or Government support to help the Mother is what is needed not Abortion.

I am glad and proud that Ireland bans Abortion from general availaibilty. Aborting a foetus is no different to shooting someone dead, it is killing and abortionists and Mothers who choose to have abortions are killers simple as.

Thanks for sharing your opinion, out of deference to the mods and owners of this site I will withold my opinion of your post, I would however just like to point out that there are also millions of orphaned children in the world and it is governments and stupid laws that prevents childless couples from adopting them!

wylo

square_igloo wrote: »

No, I think it's absolutely nuts that a girl has to travel to England or wherever to go for a surgery that should be available over here.
And who are you to say that every abortion takes place because the child would be inconvenient?

well if you quoted my whole quote people would see I gave examples of where I agree with abortion, as I said, I dont have a definite opinion, its just too debatable, its simply not fair to say either side is right or wrong.

Maybe the word 'inconvenient' is a bit much, but it boils down to that in alot of cases.
I do think a girl should have a right to abort if she is raped, or if she is extremely young, or most obviously, if having a baby will endanger her own health.

But, I dont think a couple in their early 20s should have the easy option of aborting just because they were drunk one night, and he forgot to put on a condom, and neither of them are employed, adoption should be a forced priority , IMO!!!!!

papu

Mark200 wrote: »

I'm not pro-abortion, but I'm pro-choice. I'm not gonna say that a young girl having to give birth while she is in school or college will ruin her life, but it could dramatically change things for the worse. As well as that, you'd be forcing her to give birth to a child she does not want and would not love.

Yes of course adoption is always a choice, but adoption doesn't always work. And even if it did, I think it's a terrible idea to force a girl to go through 9 months of having to take care of her own body in order to give birth to a healthy baby that she never wanted.

As well as that, I don't buy into the whole "you're killing a life" argument. You're not. You're killing the opportunity of life. But you're also doing that every time you have a **** or every time you use protection...in those cases, again, you're stopping the opportunity of life. So whether you kill the sperm by putting it in a condom or by having some sort of operation a few weeks later, I don't think it makes a significant difference.

A fetus doesn't feel pain until the 28th week of pregnancy, so in my opinion an abortion should be allowed before the 28th week.

Pretty much agree with everything here, In todays modern world , not Being able to make a choice you want to make is backward , I sincerely hope that within 10 years the abortion laws will be changed , bad things happen to good people , Some girls are stuck with children they do not want , abandoned by the "father" , I'm Pro People , Some people want abortions give it to them , If some don't thats up to them , Same thing to be said about same sex marriages , we are flesh and blood , atoms and matter , we are no different to any lifeform in the universe , believeing we are is just vanity and selfishness

Sorry for the wall of text ;/

banshee_bones

A really really sneaky site. Makes one kind of worried that someone maybe impressionable to this kind of stuff were they in a place to be looking for such information. Hopefully they would find such sites a positive options before finding this kind of stuff.