So Krispy Kreme Donuts are giving away free donuts in honor of Inaguration Day. Or in their words, "Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. is honoring American's sense of pride and freedom of choice on Inauguration Day, by offering a free doughnut of choice to every customer on this historic day, Jan. 20."
Apparently though, anti-choicers "The American Life League" have decided that their use of the word choice doesn't mean choosing a presient, but rather, choosing abortion.
"Just an unfortunate choice of words? For the sake of our Wednesday morning doughnut runs, we hope so. The unfortunate reality of a post Roe v. Wade America is that 'choice' is synonymous with abortion access, and celebration of 'freedom of choice' is a tacit endorsement of abortion rights on demand.
"President-elect Barack Obama promises to be the most virulently pro-abortion president in history. Millions more children will be endangered by his radical abortion agenda.
"Celebrating his inauguration with 'Freedom of Choice' doughnuts - only two days before the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to decriminalize abortion - is not only extremely tacky, it's disrespectful and insensitive and makes a mockery of a national tragedy.
"A misconstrued concept of 'choice' has killed over 50 million preborn children since Jan. 22, 1973. Does Krispy Kreme really want their free doughnuts to celebrate this 'freedom.'
"As of Thursday morning, communications director Brian Little could not be reached for comment. We challenge Krispy Kreme doughnuts to reaffirm their commitment to true freedom - to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - and to separate themselves and their doughnuts from our great American shame."
I'd like to upset about people who believe they have control over my body, but frankly, I'm too busy laughing :D
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Let me get this straight: I can receive and eat free donuts all while pissing off the anti-choice movement? And I thought inauguration day couldn't get any better!
Damn I wish I was American right now! I just hope that Krispy Kreme doesn't run scared because of someone's delusions.
Wow, talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. And the molehill wasn't even a molehill! Besides, why should Krispy Kreme say they are pro-life to "right" this (even if any action needed to be taken)? Isn't that just as bad- If they don't want politics shoved down their throat, why are they insisting on Krispy Kreme remedying it by switching sides?
Side note: I hate it when people refer to fetuses as "children". They're not! Even if you're pro-life, which I'm sort of on the fence about, they're not children- they're fetuses! If you don't support abortion, fine, that's your opinion, but that doesn't mean that they're children, in the technical sense anyway.
I think "preborn children" is the worst. If you want to say "unborn," OK, because technically that's right. A fetus is unborn. But you can't call it "preborn" if you can't guarantee the thing will ever see the light of day. Abortion aside, the mother could miscarry or deliver a stillborn. Unless the anti-choicers have some sort of mystical crystal ball that can tell which women are going to carry to term and which aren't.
No, the guys selling pictures of the Twin Towers aright next to Ground Zero are making a mockery of a national tragedy (or at least tastelessly capitalizing on it).
This is free fucking donuts.
"preborn"?? wtf??? That's just... weird... Oh wait. We're talking about people protesting donuts.
I'm sorry, who, in America, really wants to protest free donuts? Americans rarely protest free anything!
If this country, this world, was so concerned with "life", then why are we sending so many of our children to die in wars? Is this not a double standard? Is this not hypocrytical? Does calling it "patriotic" make it any less wrong? Seriously, I want some answers on this.
If this country were so concerned with the "pursuit of happiness", then why are we charged an arm and a leg everytime we try to pursue it? Why are we mocked for our choices on what happiness is? Why do we have advertisements and television shows flashing in front of our faces and telling us we look horrible and we need constant improvement? Why have we been turned into consumer slaves? Where is this happiness?
I want answers. I'm tired of hypocrites.
I would guess that for pro-life people, sending a child to war is not the same thing as "murdering" a fetus because the person who goes to war makes a choice (albeit, in our country, uninformed) to potentially sacrifice themselves for something they believe in, or for money. A fetus doesn't have a chance to live or be born, so the mother is infringing the fetus' potential right to choose. If you want to understand that standard, you have to remember that many pro-life people honestly believe/feel that life begins at conception, or very soon thereafter, mainly because there is no reliable scientific standard that says "oh, here's when this fetus should be considered a human being"
I don't agree with that standard, or how they choose to advance their cause, or the religious wingnuttery that often accompanies them, but I see where they're coming from.
"Millions more children will be endangered by his radical abortion agenda."
1. Like so many people have said before me, they're not children yet.
2. The only radicals I can see are them. I mean, they're the ones freaking out over ostensibly pro-choice doughnuts and screeching about the various and sundry ways in which said doughnuts condone violence against bazillions of "preborn children"; as far as I can tell, Obama wants to make sure that women who want or need abortions can get them in a safe and timely manner and generally hasn't moralized about the subject.
3. Free doughnuts! It's a pity I'm not living in the States.
Is Krispy Kreme cutting out these doughnuts with the Fetus Cookie Cutter? *rolls eyes*
Kidding aside, I hope Krispy Kreme issues a statement to the effect that the freedom of choice celebrated on Inauguration Day is the right to vote, not abortion, and anybody who can't tell the difference is too stupid to dignify with a serious response.