We've all the seen the ads. Variants on the one above, used on the recent Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada report on the lies told by crisis pregnancy centres, aka fake clinics.
Our pal, Cliff at Rusty Idols spotted one in Calgary for the subsequent phase of the slut-shaming process, the "post-abortion trauma" counselling.
Fake clinics claim to offer "non-judgmental options" and "non-biased" information. (Which of course we know is really lies, manipulation, and shaming.) But guess what else they do?
They provide confidential client information to a new and creepy "mission" called "No, Not This One," run by a fave here at DJ! Faytene Grasseschi.
Here's a still from the video at their website, called The Justice Wall (reasons for name are not entirely clear).
As Faytene enthusiastically explains, they get "tips" from fake clinics (CPCs in the graphic) and individuals about women considering (perfectly legal and moral) abortion. They then "shoot" (her rather unfortunate choice of word) alerts out to "intercessors" (those kneeling stick figures) who then "rumble" (her word again) with prayer.
And mirabile dictu! These prayer targets turn on their heels and leave the clinics.
I suppose we should be grateful that they're sticking with old skule techniques. In the US, women actually inside clinics are now subject to fetus fetishist propaganda thanks to a technology called geo-fencing.
Women who have visited almost any abortion clinic in the United States have seen anti-choice protesters outside, wielding placards and chanting abuse. A Boston advertiser's technology, when deployed by anti-choice groups, allows those groups to send propaganda directly to a woman’s phone while she is in a clinic waiting room.
But look what Faytene is doing. Here's the alerts page with details about specific women who need prayer bombardment.
The alerts give a name, often in quotation marks or with the parenthetical remark "not her real name," so we are assured that confidentiality is being observed. But a location is often given too, and in one case the uncommon first name of the "grandma-to-be." For dedicated panty-sniffers, identities would not be terribly difficult to suss out.
Then there's this. A student was ratted out by her fucking teacher! The update reveals rather more than Faytene intends, I think.
We just received this update and request to keep praying:Doesn't that kind of indicate they're really really like to have a name?
The girl has not had the abortion yet. The pregnant girl's name starts with J, so now we sort of have a name. (We called her 'Tanya' in the first alert.)
This is a HUGE ethical no-no. A teacher is revealing details of a student's situation to a bunch of nutbars, who then put it on a website?????
Intercessors sign up for specific times to pray, Gord apparently requiring constant nagging.
This Canadian scam is, as usual, an offshoot of a USian one of the same name. Its avowed purpose is to connect fake clinics prepared to disclose confidential information to the "house of prayer movement." (This site also has an inspirational story of Gord communicating with a wayward soul via Chinese fortune cookie. No, I'm not making this shit up.)
We need to do something about this, friends of privacy and decency. Just what, I dunno. I spent some time yesterday on one of the schedule pages. It lists preyers, oops, prayers' names and locations. I thought I could find Twitter accounts for some of the more uncommonly named ones and follow them.
Just follow them on Twitter, no interaction, just creeping behind them. You know, stalking the stalkers, see how they like it.
But no joy. I couldn't find any Twitter accounts.
However there's @Faytene herself to follow and the "mission" @NoNotThisOneCAN, both of which I'm now following.
Let's think about what to do about this.
In the meantime, Faytene wants us to know that the Justice Wall is not officially launched yet. They need $10,900 more, for which you will receive a tax receipt. Yes, friends of decency, WE are subsidizing this bullshit.
4 comments:
OK I clicked thru & I hate to be that guy but I think you may have been sucked in by a parody account here. There were a few obvious clues you should have picked up on. The fundraiser for a giant stone angel weeping over a crib : "Monument for the Unborn UNBORN in the Nation's Capital" is by artist Tim Schmaltz. Schmaltz? And the "lifesize model" - hello! This Is Spinal Tap! - is posed more like someone riding the porcelain bus.
Then there's the press release for it : "Missing link included"
C'mon, Fern, admit it - you've been had here.
Awright, challenge taken. In this blog-post I was mainly after the stalkerness. The Monument for/to Unborn was for later. Schmaltz yes, definite alarm bells.
I'll get back to you.
Schmaltz is a sculptor - really. He recently had a sculpture purchased by the Vatican - are you suggesting that they've just lifted a plausible sculptor's name?
Nope, not been had. About to blog on it. They got their deposit in reports We Need a Law Like a Hole in the Head.
Schmalz is a real sculptor, though the repeated misspelling of his name is hilarious.
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