{"id":95431,"date":"2016-06-02T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=95431"},"modified":"2016-06-02T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:18:34","slug":"lego-celebrates-affirms-life-of-preborn-with-ultrasound-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lego-celebrates-affirms-life-of-preborn-with-ultrasound-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO celebrates, affirms life of preborn with ultrasound lego"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LEGO\/?fref=ts\">LEGO shared their good news<\/a> with social media &#8211; a new baby mini figure. The Facebook post announced the figurine the way many excited parents do, with an ultrasound image.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the reactions over social media were positive. Encouragingly, the Facebook ad calls the minifigure a &#8220;baby,&#8221; furthering what pro-lifers, and biology, already know to be true. The ad does not call the mini figure a blob of tissue or clump of cells or parasite, like the abortion industry might prefer them to. The LEGO wouldn&#8217;t suddenly become a baby just\u00a0when he arrived outside his LEGO womb.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sounds silly, right? Well after Doritos dared to release a Super Bowl ad showing a baby in the womb reacting to and reaching for his father&#8217;s snack, <a href=\"\/news\/naral-spent-super-bowl-50-complaining-babies\/\">N<\/a><a href=\"\/news\/naral-spent-super-bowl-50-complaining-babies\/\">ARAL Pro-Choice America<\/a> <a href=\"\/news\/not-buying-it-swift-backlash-against-naral-anti-life-super-bowl-tweets\/\">went <\/a><a href=\"\/news\/naral-attacked-doritos-baby-know-dehumanizing-jig\/\">ballistic<\/a>, because Doritos\u00a0engaged in the &#8220;#antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses&#8230;&#8221; Social media users, including Sean Davis, co-founder of the Federalist, is anticipating more headaches from the abortion movement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Can&#8217;t wait for the abortion activists to tell us that&#8217;s actually just a clump of blocks, not a LEGO baby. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vIk6soBjVY\">pic.twitter.com\/vIk6soBjVY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/738029353506856960\">June 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully this time the abortion movement can lay low while LEGO affirms the excitement of sharing ultrasound images, but most importantly, the dignity of life, especially with <a href=\"\/news\/after-nine-attempts-to-abort-planned-parenthood-an-ultrasound-changed-everything\/\">the <\/a><a href=\"\/news\/how-ultrasounds-are-shaping-womens-views-on-abortion\/\">saving<\/a> <a href=\"\/news\/according-study-naral-right-fear-ultrasounds\/\">power<\/a> of <a href=\"\/news\/after-nine-attempts-to-abort-planned-parenthood-an-ultrasound-changed-everything\/\">ultrasounds<\/a> &#8211; a true window to the womb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday LEGO shared their good news with social media &#8211; a new baby mini figure. The Facebook post announced the figurine the way many excited parents do, with an ultrasound image. Most of the reactions over social media were positive. Encouragingly, the Facebook ad calls the minifigure a &#8220;baby,&#8221; furthering what pro-lifers, and biology, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":95445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[8989,6284,127],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LEGO celebrates, affirms life of preborn with ultrasound lego<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Can&#039;t wait for the abortion activists to tell us that&#039;s actually just a clump of blocks, not a LEGO baby.&quot; ~ Sean Davis\" \/>\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\/lego-celebrates-affirms-life-of-preborn-with-ultrasound-lego\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LEGO celebrates, affirms life of preborn with ultrasound lego\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Can&#039;t wait for the abortion activists to tell us that&#039;s actually just a clump of blocks, not a LEGO baby.&quot; 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