“Bunnies in a Blender” and other anti-choice videos

Originally posted in Feministing

The American Life League has released a new video calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood because they abuse animals…oh wait, no, that’s not quite right.

Transcript after the jump.

I was promised this video would have me “seeing red.” But I’m just confused. As a pro-choice person, I don’t believe that abortion–a legal medical procedure that’s an integral part of reproductive health care and a fundamental human right of all women–is all that much like blending bunnies. And as a pro-truth person, I know that Planned Parenthood already doesn’t receive any taxpayer funding to provide abortions. (Despite the fact that they damn well should.) So this whole debate has about as little to do with abortion as it does with, well, bunnies in a blender.

Meanwhile, Faith 2 Action, the group behind Ohio’s so-called “Heartbeat Bill,” goes the more traditional route of using dancing babies to the sell the anti-choice position–and also manages to ruin “99 Balloons” forever.

Finally, I leave you with this gem because there is seriously nothing–nothing–more painful than an anti-choice rap.

Transcript:

Imagine the government giving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year to a company that does this. [Bunnie placed in blender. Sound of blender being turned on.]

It does. Only they’re not bunnies.

Receiving over 300 million of your tax dollars every year, Planned Parenthood does this nearly a thousand times a day.

Tell Congress: It’s time to stop Planned Parenthood’s tax funding.

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3 Comments

  1. DCM
    Posted March 5, 2011 at 8:08 pm | Permalink

    This is not to the point of your article, but I swear if that group hurt a bunny, I will go after them like they didn’t know what hit them. That shit is not funny.

    • Meggi Odair
      Posted March 9, 2011 at 2:38 am | Permalink

      Um, ditto. The scary thing was that they actually put a bunny end there, which is cruel even if they didn’t… ‘shudders’.
      I hate how anti-choicers pretend they have more morals, when they let the babies they forced mothers to have starve on the streets and scare schoolchildren half to death with pictures of ‘aborted babies’. Really? Bunnies? I can’t even imagine stooping to the level of the person who came up with this, even if it was just to slap the hell out of them.

  2. Chantelle Boduel
    Posted March 8, 2011 at 6:53 pm | Permalink

    To be honest, I paused the video in a panic, took a few deep breaths and then forced myself to press play again. It is absolutely shocking (most likely the goal) and that was before I even understood what it was advertising for. I’m Canadian, and as far as I’m aware, aside from two provinces (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), abortion clinics are federally funded here. However it horrifies me that someone would compare putting a bunny in a blender with getting an abortion. If you disagree with abortion, then don’t get one. But who are you to judge someone else for their choices? And whats more, this video goes farther than judging… as the bunny, I presume, is meant to symbolize a child, they are essentially calling any woman who gets an abortion a brutal killer. I am outraged.

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