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Abortion Lobby's child exploitation. (Insider Report).


Nearly every pro-abortion rally features the sight, both heartbreaking and nauseating, of a small child carrying a sign proclaiming: "I'm a choice." It is difficult to fathom the mindset mind·set or mind-set
n.
1. A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses to and interpretations of situations.

2. An inclination or a habit.
 of parents who would dehumanize de·hu·man·ize  
tr.v. de·hu·man·ized, de·hu·man·iz·ing, de·hu·man·iz·es
1. To deprive of human qualities such as individuality, compassion, or civility:
 their own children in the service of the child-killing industry. This perverse use of children as a pro-abortion advertising tool has been adopted by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Reproductive rights or procreative liberty is what supporters view as human rights in areas of sexual reproduction. Advocates of reproductive rights support the right to control one's reproductive functions, such as the rights to reproduce (such as opposition to forced  Action League (NARAL NARAL National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League ) for a national television ad campaign.

One advertisement in NARAL's "Choice for America" campaign features "several little kids playing Red Rover Red Rover (also known as Bullrush; Forcing the City Gates; Octopus Tag; and British Bulldog) is an outdoor game played primarily by children on playgrounds. "Red Rover" was very popular into the 1970s. ," recalls writer Amy Drake in the September 23rd National Review. "While we watch these happy little children running around, a voice-over asks us to consider their future -- a future that might not include abortion. 'And what will we tell them, the children in front of us now? What will we say? Will we tell them that once we were free but now they are not? That we had the right to choose but that right is lost?'" Another NARAL spot "features a little girl, maybe six years old, learning to ride a bike, and what is assumed to be a mother's voice saying, 'I want every good thing in the world for you,'" continues Drake. Presumably pre·sum·a·ble  
adj.
That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster.
, this includes abortion.

"Sadly, the real-life mothers of the children in these ads ... see nothing wrong with using their sons and daughters to advocate the killing of babies," comments Drake. As for the children, "they are just being kids, playing Red Rover and riding bikes. Most of them probably don't even know what abortion is. If they did, it might make them cry -- and well, that wouldn't be good for TV."
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Publication:The New American
Date:Oct 21, 2002
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