File this one under "B*gf*ck Crazy", folks!

[giza]

When real life imitates The Onion:

Pro-Life Group up in Arms over Krispy Kreme's Abortion Doughnuts

Krispy Kreme, being the genial purveyor of glazed goodness that it is, decided to get in on the Obama inauguration craze and is offering one free doughnut to every costumer on January 20, Inauguration day, and released this seemingly innocuous press release:

"Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) 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. By doing so, participating Krispy Kreme stores nationwide are making an oath to tasty goodies -- just another reminder of how oh-so-sweet 'free' can be."

Well, The American Life League noticed the liberal use of the word choice and decided to blast the chain bakery for producing abortion doughnuts.

"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," the group's president, Judie Brown said in a statement.

There's more to this story, and the entire press release from these American Life League nutjobs can be read over here.

And it gets better, these whackos have a website, too. Complete with a counter of "deaths since Roe v. Wade". Wow.

And while I'm venting about anti-rights groups, I found something worth sharing: "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion". Yep, it's an article about when anti-abortion people get abortions themselves. Funny, isn't it?

Comments

[dustwing.livejournal.com]

...-_-

Seriously that's ridiculous. And Anti rights groups need to GTFO

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's crack-tacular. Apparently the anti-abortion people are convinced that red stuff oozing out of the donuts is blood. OH NOES!

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

If there are unidentifiable chunks in it... well, it's possible.

But even if that's the case, I doubt we are talking fetal tissue. Probably fingertip.

[linnaeus.livejournal.com]

To be fair to the protesters, I think Krispy Kreme was tempting fate by shaping the free donuts like aborted fetuses. Also filling them with strawberry jelly might have been going a little too far.

[kittrel.livejournal.com]

If you find the golden ticket in one of the donuts you get a lifetime of free abortions!

[linnaeus.livejournal.com]

I am intrigued by your idea, and would like to watch a movie about an impoverished, goodhearted girl named Charlene who finds the ticket and gets to go on a magical tour of a wondrous abortion clinic staffed by Oompa Loompas.

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

o/~

Oompa Loompa doompety doo
I've got another puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doompedah dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me

what do you get when you kid is a slut?
growing a baby deep down in her gut?
Abortion is wrong, you'll cry and you'll shout...
When it's your kid's, just get that thing out!

(i don't like the look of it!)

Oompa Loompa doompety da
If you're a hypocrite, you will go far
You will live in denial too
Like the Oompa Loompa doompety do

o/~

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Yay!! Wait, I'm a guy. Maybe I can get a free liposuction instead? That's a better prize for Krispy Kreme to offer anyways :)

[drleo.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's a reach beyond reach. Must have been a really slow day for these lunatics, and a really slow day for whatever part of the press gave this nonsense exposure.

[smtpboy.livejournal.com]

Only a right-wing nutjob could equate a celebration of an election with donuts to abortion.

I think that's just a taste of what Vice-President Palin would have delivered. ;)

[mapdark.livejournal.com]

.....

Quoi?!

WHAT? WHAT WHAT WHAAAAT??!?!?!?!

[smack-jackal.livejournal.com]

I've really got nothing very civil that I can say about complete nutbars such as this...I mean, their view is completely irrational and thus there's no way you'll ever be able to talk to them reasonably and logically about why their extreme views are perhaps not correct.

Okay...That was kind of civil.

Of course, the great strength of America is that even the kooks have the right to voice their opinions...and the obligation to be ridiculed by their peers for them. That last part is implied and almost always claimed as suppression of free speech by those being ridiculed for spouting complete lunacy.

Huh, guess I'm in a much more civil mood than I'd thought!

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

>even the kooks have the right to voice their opinions

Yes they do, but when they try to force those opinions on the rest of us through the force of law (which they are attempting to do), I can no longer support their actions.

I always tell them "Feel free to not have an abortion." Really, that should be enough. But they want to tell the world what to do.

Fuck'em.

[smack-jackal.livejournal.com]

Oh, I completely agree. They're ass-hatted idiots who should be smacked down for being stupid. (Thus the ridicule clause fo my comment)

I get much less civil when people try to cram their arbitrary morality down my throat through legislation. In this case though...they're just showing how inane their arguments are by trying co-opt any use of the word "Choice" as a endorsement of something they feel is beyond the pale.

In some way's I'm guilt of the same by equating the terms like "the moral right", "conservative" and "Christiantiy" with "hypocrisy."

[chakatstreak.livejournal.com]

Pardon me while I pound my head against my desk a few times.

*headdeskheaddeskheaddeskheaddesk*

That should be enough.

Seriously... I'm pro-life myself, and I think this is ridiculous, absurd, and foolish to the extreme. Idiots like these give the rest of us a bad name.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to block out time in my schedule to get a free doughnut. =^.^=

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

>Seriously... I'm pro-life myself

You know, it's funny. I consider myself "pro-life" on a purely semantic level.

I don't really like abortions. If I were female, I'd do everything I can to avoid becoming pregnant at the wrong time, because I don't know if I would ever put myself through that.

However, I will forever defend the right to have an abortion. Each person should be able to make their moral choice and decide for themselves. That's what makes this a free society.

[ionotter.livejournal.com]

Y'know...this sort of thing always backfires for groups like PETA, EarthFirst and the Ku Klux Klan. ("Sea kittens", burning ski resorts and David Duke respectively) You'd think they might take a few lessons from their spectacularly obnoxious and ridiculously humorous failures, but apparently not. Ah well? Darwin in action still holds true.

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

"Sea kittens" is honestly the funniest thing I've seen in a while. Of course it has had the opposite effect, as I've eaten more fish in the past few days than I otherwise would have, just to have excuses to say "I'm chowing down on sea kittens!" to people. ;)

[nikvulper.livejournal.com]

Serves Krispy Kreme right for advertising something they do every day anyways as something special. Any time that Hot Now sign is on, they'll throw one at you, and if you say you already had one they'll give you another. I would love to see some of those anti-abortion shock posters out in protest in front of a KK. Would finally give me the opportunity to walk by and say "MAN! That makes me hungry!" :)

[silaria.livejournal.com]

Wow; just wow. That's taking things just a bit too far.

[gravecat.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm already a little too late on the train, with everyone beating me to the obvious remarks about the donut thing, so I'm just going to quietly despair for humanity, because of yet another case of moronic hypocrisy.

Not that this is really news; the "I'm an exception, that doesn't really count" rule has been applied to just about everything under the sun over the years, by brainless peons far and wide. This is why we need global totalitarian dictatorship, instead of allowing people to have opinions.

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

I wonder if my cable service includes Abortion Rights On Demand.

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

On the donuts, it sounds like fundie victim/attention whore syndrome: Use the most specious and tenuous of connections to scream your argument, immediately putting the other side on the defensive.

As for the lovely article on the pro-life folks getting abortions... Cognitive Dissonance is an amusing thing. The mental hurdles and hoops that get jumped through to try and rationalize it are priceless. In this case, though, it's better described by the layman's term: "Being a Fucking Hypocrite."

[wildbilltx.livejournal.com]

They should send several boxloads of "donut holes" to those prudes.

[giza.livejournal.com]

That's the best idea I've heard so far!

I wonder if the Krispy Kreme website lets me ship orders to "friends"...

[dark0tigger.livejournal.com]

Haha, I was thinking donut holes as well when I first read 'abortion donuts'. Just make sure you send them strawberry flavored donut holes ;) .

[tarangryph.livejournal.com]

I found that article on hypocritical anti-abortionists quite interesting, thanks for posting. It’s amazing how they manage to ignore the obvious cognitive dissonance of denying someone such a significant medical procedure on moral grounds when they have no problems undergoing it themselves.

I am happy I live in Denmark. According to the Kinsey Institute, at the last survey 95% of Danes between 18 and 44 considered induced abortion before the end of the 12th gestational week a basic human right, and since the survey was made the only pro-life political party has been voted out of the parliament. It’s been years since I’ve seen a pro-lifer given media coverage.

Personally, I would wish that abortions were not necessary, but illegalising them will only lead to more dying, as women suffer the horrible consequences of poorly performed back-alley abortions instead. Even Italy, home of Catholicism, has legalised abortion to prevent desperate women mutilating and killing themselves. It’s frightening that the US are still debating this issue, let alone legislating against abortions. :S

o.O

[drakenhart.livejournal.com]

See this is where I want to beat people then give them a choice for me to continue beating them, or to stop. Then have someone come over to me and yell at me "Choice is about the endorsement of victimization", then shrug my shoulders and continue beating them.

Let them feel what its like to NOT have a choice.

[searedice.livejournal.com]

Every person commenting here is alive because someone else "chose" not to have a pregnancy terminated.
My own mother was told by her doctors, after an amniocentesis, that there was a significant chance I would be born with mental defects and that she should consider an abortion. Here I am almost 21 years later at one of the top universities in the world, enjoying all aspects of life, infinitely glad that my mother accepted the possibility of having to raise a handicapped child so that she would not violate the respect for life established in her community, the Catholic Church.
I just pray that Obama is influenced to do what is right, whatever that may be.

[wagtehdog.livejournal.com]

While I agree with your statement, the fact that pro-life groups are equating this with a pro-abortion message is depressingly pathetic. Taking something completely innocent and turning it into a political statement to use against someone is a pretty awful thing to do.

[athauglas.livejournal.com]

(Obligatory furry joke)

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

*foreheadslap*

Yeaaah... hey guys, I think the first occurrence of the word "choice" there refers to the freedom to vote for whatever candidate you prefer. And the second occurrence means they'll give you any kind of donut you want; glazed, chocolate iced, whatever.

[athauglas.livejournal.com]

When your only tool is a hammer...

[darkwolfie.livejournal.com]

From now on, all donuts shall be called "Abortion Donuts"


And every abortion shall be called "Getting the Krispy Reamed"!