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NARAL fumes: GoFundMe won’t allow fundraising to kill unborn babies

By Dave Andrusko

Ilyse Hogue, President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

Just so we’re clear. I’m pretty sure that NARAL has no more inside information than I do why GoFundMe, the online fundraising site, decided it was no longer going to allow women to troll for money to abort their children. It probably is related to all the publicity surrounding “Bailey,” who appealed for funds to pay to abort her unborn child who (she said) was 19-20 weeks gestational age. (See “Using GoFundMe, woman raises $2,500 to have her abortion, scheduled for this week,” http://nrlc.cc/1qNW8za.)

That, of course, did not slow down NARAL nor its inevitable snit/fundraising email letter (disguised as a call for supporters to sign a petition) bemoaning that GoFundMe is “not going to let anyone raise money to help pay for an abortion.”
According to NARAL President Ilyse G. Hogue, in that pitch perfect feigned voice of indignation she has mastered, “You know what else GoFundMe has banned from its site? Terrorism, violence, and drugs.”

Actually, it’s worse than that: “In its list of banned content, GoFundMe puts abortion in the same category as killing animals.”

Okay, let’s put Hogue’s rant in perspective.
Most people, I would imagine, would have no problems with virtually any of GoFundMe “Content Guidelines” (limitations). But
“While the vast majority of fundraising activity we see is both heartwarming and inspiring, there will always be those who attempt to challenge GoFundMe’s existing Acceptable Use Policy.
“In order to ensure a positive experience for all visitors, the purpose of your GoFundMe campaign must not relate to any of the following items.”
Under “Termination of Life,” we read
Suicides or assisted suicides
Abortions (human or animal)
Ending the life of an animal

Content associated with or relating to any of the items above.
So while Hogue and her crew wouldn’t even blink at killing an unborn baby for any reason or no reason until birth—if that is the woman’s “choice”—she gets all huffy when slaughtering unborn babies is included in the same category as “terminating” the life of an animal.
Terminating eight-month-old-unborn babies? Sure. Bambi? No!—at least not ex utero. Unborn baby Bambi is on his own.

As you no doubt would have guessed, Hogue says nothing in her harangue about abortion being included in the same family as “suicides or assisted suicide.” She can live with that, so to speak.
NARAL doubtless pays Hogue a pretty penny. They obviously pay her not for her ability to reason, but for the capacity to raise her supporters’ blood pressure and the incapacity to be embarrassed by writing nonsense like this email.

In case not being allowed to fundraise to kill huge unborn babies isn’t enough grist for the mill, Hogue throws in additional red meat: “they will let people raise money for anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers that lie to women about their health care.”

I don’t know if GoFundMe allows crisis pregnancy centers to fundraise.
But, then again, unlike Hogue, I can grasp the difference between grasping a baby’s leg and yanking it off and holding a woman’s hand as she navigates a crisis pregnancy.
Hogue, of course, wants her supporters to do their best to intimidate GoFundMe into changing its policy—to sign one of their endlessly recurring petitions.

She ends with “Thank you for all you do.”
I will end with “Thank you for all you do for both mother and unborn baby.”

Source: NRLC News