I Wonder What “Women Against Natality Killing” Have To Say?
The anti-choice forces have been coming up with new and inventive ways to harass providers of women’s health services. In Kansas, they’ve been using an obscure law that allows grand juries to be convened by petition to bring nuisance investigations against doctors.
Illinois has been having some interesting eruptions of anti-choice activity, as well.
Aurora Zoning Board Dismisses Case against Planned Parenthood
Last year, the $7.5 million Aurora, Ill., Planned Parenthood abortion clinic applied for building permits under a front company that hid the true nature and ownership of the building. For months, life advocates, including Families Against Planned Parenthood, have been fighting back, claiming zoning ordinances were violated.
Last night, however, members of the Aurora Zoning Board of Appeals voted to dismiss the case saying the appeal didn’t fall within its jurisdiction. The Board also claims that the appeal was not filed in time.
The case will now go to state court.
“We applaud Families Against Planned Parenthood for continuing to fight Planned Parenthood’s deceptive attempt to open an abortion clinic without the residents’ and the zoning board’s knowledge,” said Dawn Vargo, associate bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action.
I know that this sort of stuff is terrible, but that’s really not what caught my eye here. Terrible stuff like this happens all the time, but poorly chosen names are a special occurrence.
The organization fighting Planned Parenthood here is called “Families Against Planned Parenthood”.
Did they really think things through before they came up with an organization whose acronym is FAPP?
Then again, I suppose it could be their slogan: “FAPP helps prevent abortions!”
Is it unfair of me to assume Families Against Planned Parenthood is actually a subgroup of Focus On The Family?
Fappin 4 Life
…Families Against Planned Parenthood…
Well, at least they admit it.
Oh, sure it is, Sidhe.
It’s a total astroturf group.
It’s still cracking me up, though. “FAPP doesn’t kill babies!”
I had never heard of ‘fapping’. You learn something new every day at S,N!
Well, almost every day. I think we all know by now that Jonah is a fucking tool.
Drb Science, that is a perfect lolwingnutz caption.
Here in Colorful Colorado (formerly teh Hate State) has some hi-jinks going on as well.
They are trying to define life as starting as inception. Needless to say, this opens a whole new can o’ worms–legally and otherwise.
It is some teenage winger with little or no life experience that got the measure to a vote this November.
Very sad no matter how you slice it. And don’t even get me started on Focus on the Family.
I had never heard of ‘fapping’. You learn something new every day at S,N!
AFAIK, the term was originated as a sound effect in Japanese comics and transliterated in an English-language webcomic called Sexy Losers. SL has been mostly dormant for a few years, but if you’re interested in anime-style perverted fun, it’s worth a read. One of the funniest webcomics out there, IMO, if you have the proper geeky credentials to appreciate it (and maybe even if you don’t; since I am a geek, I’m not sure how it would read to non-geeks).
err, if Focus on the Family annoys you, here’s a little experiment you can try.
Point your browser to “www dot hotlesbiansheepaction dot com” and see what you get.
It’s even worksafe.
But it only took him 5 years to Fapp out that never before so meticulously researched tome. I’m sure part of the delay was all the fapp-skeet that kept gunking up the sheets of is magnum-cheetopus.
Actually, when I was in Chicago in December, I went to the small town in the Fox River Valley where I lived when I was in elementary school, and I drove around my old neighborhood, pointing out to my spouse the house where I lived and where my friends lived. And on the lawn of one of my grade-school friend’s home was a sign like this:
Planned Parenthood Bad
and I thought, gee, who moved into the XXXXs’ house? But then I remembered, of course, that the XXXX’s were Catholic, and perhaps Mr. or Mrs. XXXX or one of the 8 kids in that family were still living there and posted the sign themselves.
It was weird.
Aurora IL? Do Wayne and Garth know?
their subsidiary, Students Against Planned Parenthood doesn’t get much respect in school.
Jillian–
You owe me an angry party for that! Grrr…
if Focus on the Family annoys you, here’s a little experiment you can try
Don’t know what possessed me to doubt you, Jillian, but I tried the little experiment. I’m just an unfrozen caveman lawyer* so I don’t really understand the newfangled ways of these toobz, but that’s pretty fucking funny.
*That’s a lie — I’m not really a lawyer. I do, however, have a office with this on the door.
Did they really think things through before they came up with an organization whose acronym is FAPP?
Ah, this explains why Gavin used ‘FAP!’ in that DayByDay remix.
Um, an office. I are a unfrozen caveman grammarian.
Alright, whoever just sent me to Sexy Losers is going to die!
Ugh, that site is like a train wreck, only the train is ful of smelly nerds and you’re in it but you survive and have to smell and see it all and they’re all masturbating and ….. ugh….. I can’t go on….
Did somebody say hot sheep action?
(I probably posted this too many times already, but the head bangers call out to me.)
Well, ITTDGY, would it help or hurt you to know that I knew with a great degree of certainty what you were linking to before I clicked?
Fapp kick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of life. And put down that book, Hillary!
If people would have less children and illegal immigrants would be deported there would be more jobs for Americans and the economy would improve. Of course some would claim that the housing market would still be a drag on the economy, but since most of the people who working in housing construction are illegals, this is not true.
So obviously what is needed is is more abortions. And a wall around the country.
This would also benefit the rest of the world.
Well, ITTDGY, would it help or hurt you to know that I knew with a great degree of certainty what you were linking to before I clicked?
Yes.
Nah, I got it all figured out.
I’m gonna start a national support and advocacy group called Unplanned Parenthood.
Our mission statement is “Huh? Um, oh, hell, I dunno. Just fuck EVERYONE”.
Our poster child will be Freddie Mercury.
Our offices will be part dating service, part house of ill repute and part business office. The business office will set up kickback agreements with abortion clinics, adoption centers, health clinics, hell, organ transplant operations in Mexico (we’ll have plenty of the little ankle biters around to harvest from).
The stoners, floozies and weekend drunks will be out constituency. And we will reach out to them. And touch them. Repeatedly. Um..
Where was I. Oh yeah.
Unplanned Parenthood. Because what did planning ever do for you?
mikey
Do they call their gatherings FAPP-offs?
Perhaps FAPP circles?
One can only hope.
Is it unfair of me to assume Families Against Planned Parenthood is actually a subgroup of Focus On The Family?
According to the FAPP web site, they’re underwritten by the Pro-Life League of Action. This organization was founded by Joe Scheidler. That’s the Scheidler in the Scheidler v. NOW RICO case.
I heard they were holding a vigil and calling it a Fappathon.
Our poster child will be Freddie Mercury.
LMAO.
well played, sir.
Regarding Kansas, I see that our old friend, the panty-sniffing Phill Kline, is involved in these grand jury investigations. During his tenure as Kansas’ Attorney General, he made a name for himself by demanding that Planned Parenthood turn over the medical records of 90 of its patients, including detailed sexual histories. What. A. Creep.
Btw, he did not win re-election in 2006.
mikey, I am no longer qualified to be a constituent. But can I be a counselor? It sounds even more fun than an angry party.
Thank you for calling those crazies “anti-choice”; they can’t be “pro-life” if they only care about pre-natal life.
Um, I wonder if I’m considered pervey if I noticed the fapp thing in the second sentence of the article…
Not only is there a group called “FAPP,” there’s one called “Focus on the Family Action“. Do they fapp to family action?
Do they fapp to family action?
Only if it’s hot enough.
Hot family-on-family action. That’s just awful enough to work.
Drb – you beat me to it.
I think all da wimmins should read this advice column …. scroll down to “lemming to a cliff”.
http://www.tsblogs.com/hesaidshesaid/
Drb-
it’s just a side project of mikey’s ‘just everybody fuck everybody’ project.
A sick and disgusting one, but still…
Alright, whoever just sent me to Sexy Losers is going to die!
I’ll bet you’re wondering why I didn’t provide a link.
Families Against Planned Parenthood.
Aside from the fappage jokes, one has to wonder what that means.
Would they call it, “If mom had had a little less gin that night, we wouldn’t be here?”, or “Nobody told me this’d lead to chillun!”, or maybe “You mean they don’t come from the cabbage patch?”
Seriously, wtf?
Steady on! Which one of you bastards sent me to that Focus on the Family site with promises of hot sheep action? There is so much fucking wrong with these people that it defies description. Here’s a gem –
Do wingers even read the shite they post?
jeebus christ on a crutch – that’s just fucking creepy!
I live near the site. There’s a grocery store right by it on my way home from work. Let me tell you what the stupid fuckers protesting are doing.
It was nutfreezing cold one day and drizzling. I’d stopped to get some groceries on the way. The easy way out of the lot is right by the clinic.
Those goddamned stupid fuckers…on a shitty cold day…had their babies out with them. It’s fucking cold and raining and their own kids…babies! are out there in their strollers.
Really pro-family of them…yeah…let’s take our little babies out in the fucking cold and let them freeze to death.
Author’s note: I wouldn’t take my little son out in that weather for hours on end…I’m loathe to take him out even for a few minutes in that kind of weather.
Families Against Planned Parenthood.
Oy.
Families shoudl just HAPPEN like teh Good Lord intended. Maybe with some immaculate conception added.
Or at least with some reaally clean conception.
You know, I’ve never been comfortable with the whole “who’s your daddy” thing. Maybe this is, in some sense, why.
NATALITY.