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July 26, 2004
And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Posted by Bill

Ok, pro-lifers. Have at the amazing stupidity of this product with (nearly all) the rhetoric in the world and I probably won't give you any crap.

Coming soon:

Rape shirts, incest shirts and shirts that declare pride for a whole host of private diseases, actions, family problems and mental conditions.

UPDATE: Planned Parenthood took the page down after getting Drudge-lanched. Score another one for the Google cache ...

Posted by Bill at July 26, 2004 02:17 PM | TrackBack (11)

Comments

Actually, they have an entire tie set where the patterns are actual microcopic pictures of various venerial diseases

Posted by: Sharp as a Marble at July 26, 2004 02:37 PM

Y'know... that's just too f'ing sick for words.

Posted by: Deb at July 26, 2004 02:58 PM

So much for abortions being a "necessary evil." Maybe PP is shooting for a fashion statement.

Perhaps it's time for my "You had irresponsible sex, you are dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, and now YOU want ME to pay for your abortion?" t-shirt.

I always thought it was too callous of a message, even for a Republican. But whattheheck, we're all making bold statements anyway.

Posted by: Gordon at July 26, 2004 03:02 PM

No, your message is still callous ...

I just find it pretty nuts that they would promote a shirt that takes pride in what (at the very least) should be an extremely private matter.

Posted by: Bill from INDC Journal at July 26, 2004 03:04 PM

This goes directly to the pro-choice dream of completely normalizing abortion. Make it a point of pride, or at least something that happens everyday, like brushing your teeth, and the debate is over.

Might be a bit too early to puch for this, it might make some marginal supporters into marginal opponents (right Bill?)

Posted by: madmark at July 26, 2004 04:09 PM

Wasn't somebody marketing a "My mom didn't have an abortion" T-shirt at one point?

Shouldn't someone be doing so now?

Posted by: Jeff Harrell at July 26, 2004 04:48 PM

I was going to say something sarcastic, and then a completely random thought suddenly occurred to me: the existance of the google cache suggests that google holds in its hard drives virtually the entire contents of the internet.

And that's kinda cool.

Posted by: Beck at July 26, 2004 08:29 PM

Google's cache is just that, a cache. But there are several serious efforts to archive as much of the web as possible, such as www.archive.org.

"My mom had an abortion, and all I got was this....uh, never mind."

Posted by: Clyde at July 26, 2004 09:25 PM

As I told a friend of mine:

If you consider the fetus just a clump of cells, then the t-shirt is the biological equivalent of "I had a big poop."

If you consider the fetus a human being, then the t-shirt is the moral equivalent of "I murdered a baby."

Either way, probably not something you need to shout to the world.

Posted by: andy at July 26, 2004 11:30 PM

The page appears to be back up now.

Posted by: Mickey at July 27, 2004 03:22 AM