What would right wingers be saying about a raffle to win a free abortion?

[SoCalDem]

They are as legal as a glock...:shrug:

The thing about this story is the fact that only TWELVE tickets have been sold:wtf:


Every week at bowling, we routinely sell 200 raffle tickets..and don't even have to offer a deadly weapon..:rofl:

[Motown_Johnny]

1. OMFG, that would get some heads exploding.

As far as the legality goes, how do we know the people who bought the tickets are eligible to own a handgun? Couldn't they be ex-convicts or mentally ill or something? Do we think that the people who sold the tickets did a background check?

[hobbit709]

2. Isn't being Republican a sign of mental issues?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. I'm not sure about right wingers...

...but I know I'm disgusted and nauseated by the joking about something likes. It's a private, personal matter, not something to raffle off. It's deplorable. While I am pro choice, I believe it should be something taken seriously, not something you make a joke out of, because while before 12 weeks, a fetus is a bundle of cells, the reality is the end result if you leave it alone is a human being.
Duckie

[undeterred]

4. I completely agree.

[SoCalDem]

10. Not meant to be joking.. just a comparison about perception

I do NOT advocate such a raffle, and I surely DO "understand" the implications of abortion ( participated in funding an illegal one for my best friend in 1968..Kansas, so I certainly have a dog-in-this-fight)

I merely posed the raffle comparison to point out how gunnies always argue that anythign goes because "it's legal"..but so is abortion (for the time being)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

15. Guns and abortions are two different things.

And two different arguments with a whole lot of other implications. I can't get get with you on this one.
Sorry.

[SoCalDem]

16. no problem., we don't have to agree on everything

:hi:

[malaise]

5. Great post

Rec

[pintobean]

6. Sick

[mopinko]

7. pssst

a link might help.

[SoCalDem]

8. link to the glock raffle here

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/09/01/20110901arizona-gop-gun-raffle-politico.html

however my OP, is just a "thought-puzzle" about how a raffle something similarly controversial-yet-legal would be perceived..

I, in NO way, advocate such a raffle..

[BR_Parkway]

9. I was expecting a link and headline from The Onion with that one.

[Chan790]

11. There is a brilliant idea in there somewhere,

We could hold just such a raffle in the heart of the bible belt, $100 a ticket, 1K max tickets sold...and the fundies would buy them out just to squelch the prize and make sure it wasn't used.

Proceeds of course to Planned Parenthood.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

12. Oh my God, that's perfect! Mind if I borrow it for a letter to th editor

of my local Arizona rag?

[SoCalDem]

13. Be my guest..although you might want to tweak it a bit

for instance:

winner gets a "free procedure" at a "women's clinic"..their minds will take them "there"

[Odin2005]

14. I'm pro-choice and I find the idea revolting.

Abortion is a necessary evil, not something to glorify with raffles.

[JoeyT]

17. While I don't think it's an evil,

I agree it's a terrible idea for a different reason. There might be a hundred women that actually NEED those abortions and can't afford them, which means you'll have 99 women that lost out on a raffle to win a medical procedure. I'd be horrified by the idea of a raffle for cancer treatment or heart surgery, and I'm horrified by the idea of this. Competent medical treatment shouldn't be subject to the whims of fate or chance.

[SoCalDem]

18. We have families out here almost every weekend holding car washes & raffles

so their kid/Mom/Dad/husband/wife/grandma/grandpa can get cancer treatment.:(

[surrealAmerican]

19. That is a whole different tragedy ...

... and ought not be necessary.