How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday

[babylonsister]

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/anotherthing/527441/how_to_counterbalance_focus_on_the_family_on_superbowl_sunday

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday
posted by Katha Pollitt on 02/07/2010 @ 12:58pm


So here it is, Superbowl Sunday, or as I prefer to call it, Focus on the Fetus Sunday. If you support women's right to decide for themselves when and if to continue a pregnancy, don't just get mad at the TV set when the Tebow ad comes on, get even. Donate $5 or $10 dollars (or, of course, more) to the National Network of Abortion Funds. This is the umbrella organization for all the local funds across the country which help low-income women find and pay for their abortion care. These funds, which are run by local volunteers, face a stream of need that just never goes away. Just this week I got this urgent e mail from the Equal Access Fund of Tennessee:

LAST MINUTE EMERGENCY SITUATION

Is there any way you can possibly pitch in on this bad situation for a very young patient? She is a 15 year old from a small East Tennessee town who is pregnant by an adult neighbor of her family! I have been on the phone with the daughter and the mother for hours this week as they debated the religious and ethical aspects of what is going on. They have never considered abortion and this is very difficult for them both.

(….)

Her mother, while not supportive of abortion in general, is trying her hardest to understand and deal with what is going on with her daughter. They are a poor family and need $400 more than what we have currently in the fund to make the trip out of town to get her seen in time...

I only have 24 hours to figure this one out and have turned to you since you have been a great supporter in the past. I have arranged with a friend to use their Paypal account for this one time event because it is very timely and dire. If you can help, let me know and I will get that account information for you.

We have only a short time to pull this together.

Thanks in advance. I am trying anything I can to help this family.

*****

Put yourself in that girl's shoes for a minute, and then think how many girls and women right now are in the same position. Think what it is like to face bearing a child against your will because you lack a few hundred dollars.

Fortunately, EAF was able to help that girl. But what about all the others?

Please make a donation to the National Network of Abortion Funds here.

Special ties to New York? Donate to the New York Abortion Access Fund here.

[MineralMan]

1. My suggestion is that everyone get on the floor and engage

in some unapproved sexual act during the commercials. That'll show 'em!