Focus on the Family Lies Yet Again

As usual, the rabidly bible-thumping, anti-woman, anti-choice/contraception, homophobic, anti-science and reason, bigoted, pro-misogyny, fundamentally extreme-Christian-theocracy group Focus on the Family has purposefully misrepresented women's views on the issue of embryonic stem-cell research to promote their agenda.

In recent weeks, Focus on the Family has mailed brochures to more than 90,000 Missouri homes, arguing that stem cell research under the Missouri ballot initiative would exploit women by luring them into dangerous egg donations. The brochure, “Women’s voices against cloning,” quotes several women’s organizations to show “the risks that this measure Missouri ballot initiative poses to women’s health.”

Ahh, yes. We are so dumb and silly that we will blindly walk into clinics for dangerous operations. Don't let the Fetus Fanatics fool you--this is a simple case of twisting their supposed concern for women to achieve their goal of saving the Supreme Feti. They do not care about you, lady. You are alive. They care about Frozen Freddie, not the people who suffer debilitating dieaseas everyday of their lives.

Women’s organizations quoted in the brochure say that Focus on the Family has misrepresented their positions and that they actually oppose the organization’s aims to ban stem cell research.

Judy Norsigian, author of Our Bodies, Ourselves, said Focus on the Family was “obfuscating her language” to support its own political purposes.

Emily Galpern, from the Center for Genetics and Society says “One of our concerns is that conservative folks are co-opting feminist language to suit their cause".