{"id":5395,"date":"2011-08-11T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2013-03-31T03:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T07:55:13","slug":"kenneth-coles-ridiculous-pro-choice-campaign-compares-abortion-to-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kenneth-coles-ridiculous-pro-choice-campaign-compares-abortion-to-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Cole&#8217;s ridiculous pro-choice campaign compares abortion to shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-11-at-2.56.41-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5396\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-08-11 at 2.56.41 PM\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-11-at-2.56.41-PM.png\" width=\"285\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t mind designer clothes, but Kenneth Cole&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wheredoyoustand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">campaign<\/a> comparing the &#8220;right&#8221; of women to chose to have an abortion with the &#8220;right&#8221; of women to choose which handbag they buy is just ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>More than ridiculous &#8211; it&#8217;s morally <em>unseriousness.<\/em> Even the video that accompanies the Kenneth Cole image featured in this post shows a woman anguishing over a decision &#8212; we think the decision to abort or keep her baby &#8212; then she walks over and picks up a handbag. Apparently that was the choice which was tearing her up inside.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Feminist Naomi Wolfe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/229821\/morally-serious-root-canal\/mona-charen#\" target=\"_blank\">admitted<\/a> in 2004 &#8220;I used to think of abortion as being somewhat trivial; the moral equivalent of serious root canal dentistry.&#8221; &#8230; but you won&#8217;t find many pro-aborts being so flippant about abortion now, at least in public when they argue for legal abortion &#8220;rights&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Cole evidently hasn&#8217;t caught up, despite all of its efforts to be contemporary and trendy.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this campaign, Kenneth Cole has a series of &#8220;debates&#8221; surrounding &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; issues, such as &#8220;allowing a minor to have an abortion&#8221; and &#8220;keeping abortion regulated and safe.&#8221; How does Kenneth Cole think abortion can ever be truly made safe when we have to worry about minors getting abortions? I guess they&#8217;re too cool to worry about questions like that.<\/p>\n<p>The current debate is &#8220;Making it the government&#8217;s right to choose.&#8221; Frankly, I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. And my job is to understand and comment about what people say. Currently 452 people are responding &#8220;No&#8221; to this question and 47 are responding &#8220;Yes.&#8221; Normally I love rocking abortion-related polls toward the pro-life side but this time around I see no reason to give Kenneth Cole more attention than I already have.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel compelled to, however, you&#8217;re welcome to <a href=\"http:\/\/wheredoyoustand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">leave a comment<\/a>. I would say something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Comparing abortion to shopping is totally offensive to me. Because I believe in supporting women to choose LIFE I&#8217;m choosing NOT to support you. Everyone who buys from you had a mother who chose life. Maybe your next campaign should focus on honoring them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanpapist.com\" target=\"_blank\">CatholicVote.org<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mind designer clothes, but Kenneth Cole&#8217;s campaign comparing the &#8220;right&#8221; of women to chose to have an abortion with the &#8220;right&#8221; of women to choose which handbag they buy is just ridiculous. More than ridiculous &#8211; it&#8217;s morally unseriousness. Even the video that accompanies the Kenneth Cole image featured in this post shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":5396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[861,862],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kenneth Cole&#039;s ridiculous pro-choice campaign compares abortion to shopping - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kenneth-coles-ridiculous-pro-choice-campaign-compares-abortion-to-shopping\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kenneth Cole&#039;s ridiculous pro-choice campaign compares abortion to shopping - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I don&#8217;t mind designer clothes, but Kenneth Cole&#8217;s campaign comparing the &#8220;right&#8221; of women to chose to have an abortion with the &#8220;right&#8221; of women to choose which handbag they buy is just ridiculous. 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