Finally there’s a series of abortion-encouraging ads showing
the crying faces of toddlers. Except that they’re not upset with the idea of
abortion; they are crying because they weren’t abortions, and they want to be. This may seem strange to some people, but a recent
scientific study found that all babies and toddlers cry because they’re mad
they weren’t aborted as fetuses. It’s true! (Okay, it’s not true…)
But what an ironic message/picture combination! These ads
show a crying child, and then the headline says stuff like: “Got a good job? I
cost thousands of dollars each year.” The obvious message of this ad campaign
is for us to look at the bad-tempered kids crying and want to have an abortion.
So seeing as how the headline is intended to be like a quote from the child
nagging to be an abortion, shouldn’t they go on to say: “So you should have
aborted me. Now to get revenge on you for not aborting me, I’m going to cry
loudly and go to the bathroom in my pants!”
But you know, if they’re going to make this ad campaign,
where’s the one with the crying kid that says: “If you kill me now, it’s not a
crime; but if you snap and kill me later, you’ll be charged with murder and
you’ll be the most hated woman in America, just like Casey Anthony! So just
kill me now and get it over with while you can still do it without legal
consequences. And then you can just party all the time.”
(BTW: I am pro-choice, but showing a series of
print/billboard ads showing crying children that long to be abortions seems
like it’s in bad taste to me. And I am very
pro-choice. If they really want to scare teen moms, why not say something like:
“Your child may be the Antichrist or a hideous man-eating monster baby: quick, abort
it: before it’s too late!!!)
Here’s an article that shows the ads in this NYC subway
campaign as a slideshow:
But if New York City really wants to reduce teen pregnancy,
rather than limiting the amount of soda and junk food kids can eat in NYC, they
should mandate that they have to eat twice as much as usual. Then all the
teenagers will be overweight and covered with acne, and then they might not
even have sex. And without sex, they probably won’t get pregnant as often.
(Call this suggestion as insensitive as you want, but it would likely really
work.)
Or the city could provide sex education and encourage the
use of contraceptives. But maybe that’s cheating or something, so let’s berate
teen moms instead; because after all, it’s not nearly stigmatized enough yet,
right?
Or perhaps someone could point out that having MTV glamorize
teen pregnancy with so many reality TV shows might not be such a good idea.
