Senator Shirley Smith, on a visit from children bearing gifts of teddy bears to Senators in order to promote the heartbeat bill: (The children were sent into the offices of proabortion Senators with little teddy bears and a brief message asking them to vote to restrict abortion after the heartbeat can be detected)
“I’m not at all supportive of the bill, and I’m not supportive of them sending kids in my office with a teddy bear that mimics a heartbeat, either. I thought that was a very cheap exploitation of kids.”
Laura Bassett, “Antiabortion Group Sends Children with Teddy Bears to Lobby Lawmakers,” Huffington Post, January 12, 2012
From Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio:
“I think a lot of our folks looked at the flowers and other things as stunts. I think that was how it was received in a lot of the Senate offices as well. The one that got a little different reaction was when they had the children come and lobby and deliver the teddy bears. One of the Senate staffers told me that it kind of disturbed them because some of the kids were quite young. Their family walked them to the door of the Senate office, but didn’t go in with them. She told me that the kids that walked into her office looked pretty scared and intimidated. So I think that was received with a little more concern, how the kids may have been exploited.”
Robin Marty, Jessica Mason Pieklo Crow After Roe (Brooklyn, New York: ig Publishing, 2013) 43 – 44
So a child being sent into an office for a few minutes while his parents wait outside his exploitation, but abortion, which actually kills children, is perfectly okay? What about this child: he was legally killed by an abortion in the first trimester. Was he not “exploited” and mistreated?
Or this one, aborted at 21 weeks:
NARAL Pro-Choice argues for keeping 21 week abortions legal. According to them, it is perfectly all right to abort these babies – but not to send children into a senator’s office with a gift of a teddy bear
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