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[camwyn]

Is it just me, or does anyone find LJ's new Love Without Boundaries fundraising virtual gift outright creepy? I know they're trying to convey the sense of vulnerable children being cradled safely in the palm of someone's hand, but I went to a Catholic high school with a decidedly strident anti-abortion* instructor whose idea of educating the students on Why Abortion Was Wrong usually involved extremely graphic color photographs of terminated pregnancies. As in, she kept a stack of anti-abortion pamphlets full of those pictures on the windowsill of the junior year theology classroom, right where you would probably see them if you had to get up to get a tissue to blow your nose. Thanks largely to her, the sight of a child small enough to fit in the palm of someone's hand- no matter how whole- pretty much just rings the bells of DON'T LOOK AT THE PICTURES for me now.

Thanks a lot, Sister Beatrice.

*To her credit, I think she was also anti-death-penalty and anti-euthanasia, among the other elements of Catholic 'seamless garment' theological issues pertaining to the value of all human life. Unfortunately, that got drowned out by all her other issues and insistences.