NARAL Introduces It's Very Own Custom, Abortion-Themed Ice Cream Flavour: 'Rocky Roe V Wade'
In Portland, Oregan, USA, the pro-abortion lobbying group NARAL has been hitting the headlines recently with a stunningly tasteless and provocative publicity stunt. NARAL’s Oregan affiliate has joined forces with a Portland ice cream shop to raise money via a custom, limited-edition ice cream flavour ‘Rocky Roe V Wade’, named after Roe V. Wade, the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court to legalise abortion in the USA in 1973, making the killing of unborn babies legal up to birth in most states. In gloating celebration of this devastating ruling, which has claimed 60 million unborn lives, NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon partnered with What’s the Scoop, a company that boasts of its “Virtuous Scoop” practice of donating a portion of its proceeds “back to the community,” the group announced earlier this month. Sales are allegedly helping NARAL to “defend reproductive freedom.” At the same time, the move is also a knee-jerk act of "resistance" to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanagh to the Supreme Court, a man of strong pro-life conviction who is considered a likely vote to overturn Roe.
Pro-Life Commentary Slams the Pro-Abortion PR stunt ‘Disgusting’
Jonathan Lockwood, a Portland-based policy consultant and advisor, blasted NARAL for the “disgusting” stunt in a pair of Medium posts, in particular calling out NARAL Oregon executive director Grayson Dempsey. On Twitter, Dempsey has mocked pro-life critics for “freaking out” about the ice cream, and accused pro-lifers of “shaming women and terrorizing local businesses” in response to Lockwood’s initial criticism.
“What have we come to when aborting 8-month pre-born babies or aborting babies because they’re little girls, is one acceptable, but worse, two is celebrated!” Lockwood wrote on Medium. “I thought I was pro-choice when I came to Oregon, but after seeing first-hand how insidious this far-left agenda has become I am embarrassed to call myself pro-choice.”
“Rocky Roe v. Wade” has received widespread condemnation among pro-life observers.
“At least the ad doesn’t have a little girl taking a bite out of ice cream cone,” Dave Andrusko of National Right to Life News wrote. “I guess even NARAL draws the line somewhere.” Relevant Radio’s Patrick Madrid called the new ice cream “the flavour of death.”
Pro-abortion figures and organisations often come under fire for promoting abortion and contraception in ways pro-lifers say trivialize both subjects, such comedian Michelle Wolf joking that abortion “should be on the dollar menu at McDonald’s” and pro-lifers shouldn’t “knock [abortion] 'till you try it.”
“It’s time to put this business and this abortion group on blast,” Lockwood declared.
Oregon currently has no pro-life laws on the books, funds abortions with taxpayer dollars, and is currently under the control of a pro-abortion legislature and Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, an openly bisexual former abortion lobbyist. Pro-life activists in the state hope to ban taxpayer funding of abortion in the autumn with a ballot initiative, however.