Villains of the world no.2: aintcha got no culture? Superheroes don't kill people, stoopid.

[fpb]

I am a superhero fan from of old, and I have written and drawn my share. So this absolutely astounding item on a pro-life news bulletin this morning left me astonished and slightly disgusted not only as a political opponent of certain people, but also as a cartoonist. These people simply do not have any idea how to do a decent superhero short.

I have left in the references for people to check. You can make up your own minds.

WASHINGTON, August 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Sleazy Dude" and "Senator." These are two pro-life characters in a new animated video released by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (San Francisco). Titled "A Superhero for CHOICE," the video follows a female "superhero," named "Dianisis," whose sole mission is to protect "choice."

Dianisis first encounters "Sleezy Dude," as Sleezy tells a group of teenagers that "the only way to prevent pregnancy is to practice abstinence." One teen responds, "But Mister, we learned at school that there are other ways to practice safe sex and protect ourselves." Sleezy responds: "Those are instruments from the devil's toolbox!" Dianisis interrupts the conversation and throws Sleezy into a trash can. "Now you kids know where to go for all your healthcare needs and reproductive advice, don't you?" she asks. "We sure do, ma'am! Planned Parenthood Golden Gate! Because we have a choice!" they respond. Before departing Dianisis throws a "safe sex kit" to the teens as she yells, "Remember, safe is sexy!"

The superhero's next encounter is with pro-life activists who are grunting whIle they picket Planned Parenthood. "These folks here are known as anti-choice demonstrators," she says. "Under the First Amendment of our Constitution they are allowed to express their beliefs…Yet they can sometimes become unruly and sometimes they get a little too close. But mostly I just wish they would disappear. Hey, that gives me an idea!" Dianisis takes out a gun that fires condoms. Each demonstrator is shown inside a condom, which then explodes, eliminating them. "That's more like it," Dianisis continues. "Open for business. Now everyone that needs low cost and confidential healthcare may enter freely, without intimidation or violence…"

Dianisis interrupts a U.S. Senator who she sees throwing copies of the Bill of Rights, the Constitution the First Amendment, and Civil Rights laws into a boiling pot, which he refers to as "I Can Do Whatever I Want To Do Stew." The Senator explains: "You see, I come from a long line of grandiose narcissists where quite simply the laws of these United States do not apply." He then claims to be above the law. Dianisis throws the Senator into the boiling pot, pulls him out again, and the Senator says, "I feel cleansed. I no longer have the stench of misinformed conservatism. I want all women everywhere to have the ability to choose what they do with their bodies." The superhero responds, "That's more like it. And besides, money spent now for the funding of family planning will save billions of dollars in future social expenditures." A depiction of the scales of justice lists "CHOICE" or one side and "IGNORANCE" on the other.

"This video is absolutely outrageous," said Douglas R. Scott, president of Life Decisions International. "Pro-life men and women are depicted as evil and stupid. It sends a message to teenagers that it is acceptable to eliminate those who disagree. It is also riddled with misinformation about birth control, abortion, and sexual activity." He said the video relies on one word, "choice," to justify everything. "Planned Parenthood is using this video to spread its deadly message. It is time that Planned Parenthood put the lives of teenagers ahead of its incessant desire to make more money."

Jim Sedlak, executive director of American Life League's STOPP International commented, "The hatred and religious bigotry demonstrated by Planned Parenthood in this video are shocking and offensive," noting also that the organization was "glamorizing violence against people of faith."

The eight-minute animated feature is posted on Planned Parenthood Golden Gate's web site: http://www.ppgg.org

A play-by-play account of the video including stills (photos) is available from The Dawn Patrol blog at:
http://www.dawneden.com/2005/08/planned-parenthood-fantasizes-about.html

Comments

[thepreciouss.livejournal.com]

Horrified but not too surprised.

I already knew that PP is about the most deprave organization in America, and this is yet another piece of evidence. Seriously, if I had any less self-restraint, I would detail a simliar comic in which the evil PP villain tears the thriving fetus into shreds. Wonder how they would respond to that?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

They would use it as evidence of the depravity of the anti-abortion movement. When you have no self-knowledge at all, and plenty of incentive not to have any, anything is possible.

[(Anonymous)]

I think they would be okay with it.

A woman has the right to have removed from her body anything that she feels is causing her discomfort, psychological, physical, emotional, or other harm whether it be a cyst, a tumor, or a parasite, like a fetus.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

This remains. Let everyone see exactly what kind of creatures support abortion. A human being, to you, is like a cist or a cancer - and, in your own particular case, I would say you are not too far from the truth. Only you should not judge mankind at large from your own corrupt and cancerous self.

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

This person makes your argument far more effectively than you can. You will never change her mind, or any other like minded person's mind, but she, however, will make anyone who agrees with her, or is on the fence, rethink their position.

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

He or She, that is

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I know who it is. And It is my favourite pronoun for this person.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I got an even worse item from someone else, in support of her, which I deleted out of disgust.

And ANOTHER thing...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I wish you would stop lurking. I do not particularly appreciate you reading my work, and as you are here for no constructive purpose, but only to find stuff that you can snipe at, I fail to see the need, the pleasure, or even the purpose. You will not change my mind (except for deepening my contempt of you) or find many people around here with any sympathy with your strange brew of jejuneness and extremism. I find you both nasty and immature, but certainly not a decoration or an addition. You are no Hijja and you are no Bruno, not even Falco Conlon or cette vie; you have no graces or talents that commend themselves to me across any ideological divide. And I can hardly imagine that you enjoy my views any more than I enjoy yours. So please go and find more congenial reading matter. The Net is full of fanatics of your kind, without having to bother people who have nothing to share with you.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

I know next to nothing about PP, and to my knowledge we have no similar organisations here in Australia. We have family planning clinics which are privately owned and not so franchised as the PP system, where contraception or medication formulated for pregnant women is dispensed. I think in Australia that separate premises operate as abortion clinics, and the services are offered in most hospitals. I think that at the same time that while teenagers shouldn't be having sex anyway and the messages in the video are pretty irresponsible (damn it, these teenagers should be working their asses off at not being stupid shits instead of throwing their teenage years away on stupidity), at the same time I find fault with a strictly abstinence-only education. Much as we don't want to do it, kids really do need to be taught about most of this stuff so that they don't go out and get pregnant.

I don't know whether you're too well-acquainted with my own views on the abortion debate, suffice to say they confuse me enough without confusing anyone else. You are most welcome to enquire as to what they are.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Did you spot the charming response to Thepreciouss' comment? I think it is from the UsuAAl Suspect.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

I lollered in my lollerskates at it.