Anti-Pill protest fizzles

Oh, the disappointment... will I ever get over it?

Okay, I'm over it. All indications are that yesterday's "The Pill Kills" protest was Dead On Arrival (at least I can't find any news about it), and the planned blog-burst a lot more bust than burst, with even most anti-choicers quietly opting out of this particular brand of batshit. This anti-contraception goofiness separated the batshit from the bugshit.

They blew it. Until recently, these fetus fetishists were sly, knowing all too well that their real agenda is far too extreme to be palatable to anyone but the most viciously brain-damaged, so they dressed it up in a lot of hysterical hyperbole about "BABIES". But opposing contraception is a harder sell -- putting a baby's chubby little face on a 4-celled blastocyst fits better with the Onion than a medical journal. Not to mention that opposing something that prevents abortions isn't the best way to convince anyone that the real agenda is anything other than controlling womens' bodies. The best laid plans to stop women from getting laid, eh?

Besides, even the 'pro-life' movement's own medical experts regard the "pill abortion" hypothesis as extremely lame. So says the "Association of Prolife Physicians" in a little dissertation entitled "Do oral contraceptives cause abortions?":

"There are a growing number of pro-life voices arguing that OCs cause abortions, and prescribing them is the equivalent of performing an intentional abortion. On the one hand, if oral contraceptives do cause abortions, then the vast majority of the medical community is deceived, their patients are misinformed, and even pro-life physicians are unwittingly prescribing abortifacients and killing innocent human beings. On the other hand, if oral contraceptives do not cause abortions, then the issue is a distraction that divides us and weakens our influence in defense of life. It is our hope that through reading this article, you will become familiar with the dilemma and understand how pro-life physicians who are convinced life begins at conception can disagree on this issue."

In Doctor-speak, this is known as "Breaking It To Them Gently"; in PR-speak it's called "Get Back On Message, You Clowns -- You're Blowing It!!!".

As if we needed more

In the wake of the mighty "The Pill Kills" protest going on today (although you wouldn't know it from the Canadian blogosphere), I thought it was timely to stumble over yet more proof that ersatz anti-choice concern for Teh Baybeez begins at conception and ends at birth:

"An anti-abortion group has broken up a deal between Planned Parenthood and Habitat for Humanity by blasting out 10,000 e-mails to Habitat supporters.

Planned Parenthood is building a 23,000-square-foot regional headquarters on Central Avenue, and planned to sell Habitat the land next door for a token $10 to build three below-market-cost houses. The deal benefited Planned Parenthood because the city required the clinic to put up buildings as a buffer between its parking lot and Cohen Way.

"We could have put up any building we wanted," said Barbara Zdravecky, president of Planned Parenthood. "We wanted to donate the land so Habitat could build more attainable housing."

But after Habitat donors learned about it and complained, Habitat International told the local board to drop it. The local Habitat board dropped the deal Tuesday night, less than a month before it was set for a final vote by the city."

And there you have it: affordable housing, which most likely would have provided homes to some underprivileged kids, deep-sixed by fetus fetishists because the property was generously donated (okay, sold -- for $10!) to Habitat by Planned Parenthood . And what nefarious zygoteers were behind it?

"The barrage of e-mails started with James Sedlak, vice president of the American Life League, a Virginia-based group that has led protests at Planned Parenthood offices in Sarasota. They said it showed a cozy relationship between Habitat and Planned Parenthood, which the league has accused of pushing pornography to children, among other things." (emphasis mine)

Well well, the American Life League, ovulation-obsessed fuckwits and proud sponsors of the "Pill Kills" protest, which implores us to "Think of the zygotes!!!" Fetus fetishists, protesting for those in utero and stiffing the rest.

UPDATE: April Reign was already all over this one.

CoD Bloggers -- Antonia joins the fray!

Antonia speaks. You listen.

UPDATE: That was the Star (MSM!) article -- now, for your further reading pleasure, the Broadsides Blog Post.