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Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest
ssv03 writes "The New York Times is reporting that Chase Community Giving of Chase Bank recently held a contest on Facebook in which users were encouraged to vote for their favorite charities. At the end of the contest, the 100 charities with the most votes would win $25,000 and advance to the next round to have a chance to win $1 million. Initially, the vote counts for each organization were made public, but two days before voting ended they were hidden, and the final totals have still not been released. While Chase had no official leader board during the voting, several organizations were keeping track of projected winners. Those projections were almost identical to the final results, yet several organizations including Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), Marijuana Policy Project and several anti-abortion groups were not finalists. They had been performing very well (some within the top 20) until the vote counters were removed. Chase Bank has so far refused to discuss the issue with the organizations. SSDP has spoken out in a press release (PDF) and is calling for a boycott."
> And the problem with all "pro-choice" organizations and individuals is that they only care about the adults.
Are you f*cking kidding?
Anti-Choice theocrats never care about the consequences of their short sightedness.
They leave that as a mess for someone else to clean up once they have done their meddling.
Even your caricature of the pregnant woman is pathetically out of touch with reality.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
There is no such thing as a "baby" until it is born. Before that it is a faetus, a pre-stage in the creation of a baby. 99% of all chosen abortions are done before the featus has organs, let alone nervous system.
Source? Citation? The heartbeat begins at week five. The nervous system during week four. wiki, Because with that, this page contradicts you give with 48% of abortions occurring after the 9th week, by which time the brain, eyes, skin and other organs have begun devolpment.
It is quite immoral to force people what to do with their bodies, especially since the grounds for objections are at best some kind of vitalism - soul, spirit and other nonsense.
How about the immorality of deciding to end the life of the fetus? Isn't this exactly the same thing you are complaining about, except on the other person involved? By the time most abortions occur, the fetus has a brain, an active nervous system, a heart beat, skin, eyes, what more do you need to know that the fetus is alive?
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
Hey, this makes total sense except for the fact that THE ONLY THING THE ANALOGY INTRODUCED WAS THAT THE BABY IS NO LONGER HUMAN. Well fucking done there champ, that's excellent.
So you're walking down the street when you see a HUGE ALIEN. You stab it to death hurriedly. And these self-righteous bastards want to try you for murder!