We have gotten quite the response since the votes tilted to the “abort” side; many of these messages have been in the form of private emails. I would like to take an opportunity to respond to them in this public setting, while keeping the names of the individuals that sent me the emails private.
People at a site called 4chan (specifically the /B/ boards) have been posting images of nude women to encourage others to vote. According to Wikipedia, there is a great deal of controversy involving 4chan ranging internet Denial of Service attacks, Cyber Bullying, and actual threats of violence. One 4chan user even posted videos of himself abusing his cat Dusty in order to get attention.
The most vocal email we received also described the 4chan community:
4chan, specifically the /b/ board, has a limit to the number of threads that can be accessed at any given time. These threads typically move very quickly, and so unless you’re relatively fast, you won’t see the same thread that someone has linked to you.
That being said, treating members of 4chan as normal humans is a terrible mistake. Child porn, aborted fetuses, butchered genitalia, rape, dead babies, porn, and a plethora of other inappropriate content can be found regularly on 4chan. They don’t care if they hurt others. It’s fun for them.
Members of 4chan typically operate as a single, destructive “super-entity” whose only goal is to do stuff for the “lulz.” “Lulz” are things considered to be funny at another person’s expense.
I feel very strongly that you should only use the results of the poll from a date before members of 4chan polluted the polls. Telling 4chan members that what they’re doing is “wrong,” or encouraging them to “do the right thing” will not work. You cannot convince these people to act with any sense of morals, logic, reason, or conscientiousness. If anything, it will only give them more reason to mess up the life of someone else (namely you).
By allowing the polls to be shifted from members of 4chan, you are effectively having the votes of everyone that cares go unheard. I urge you to not make that mistake.
I understand the frustration some of you hold with our decision to not limit votes from 4chan or remove the vote completely.
I see 4chan as encouraging people to vote in the poll. How they do it is beyond my control and should not influence decisions about what we are doing here. We support people encouraging others to voice their opinions on an issue as large as keeping a baby or not. The whole point of what we are doing is to allow you as an individual to make a difference. Many here have voiced their concern, but as you can see by the face-book links in the upper-right of each posting, few have acted upon them. The members of 4chan are not the only ones who can get others to sway the result. And as much as many do not approve of what they are doing, I have pondered this a great deal. We don’t see a difference between this and what politicians or supporters do in regards to campaigning.
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I vote have the baby then you 2 ass-wipes try to abort yourselves. Regardless if this is real or not you are disgusting humanoid matter for even doing this crap. May your lives remain incomplete and you just stagnate and never prosper.
T
November 18th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Where’s the 3rd option: have the child but turn him over to CPS so a more deserving person or couple can adopt him?
^^^^ THIS.
Also, all you’re doing is creating more division between people. You have pro-lifers saying it’s a pro-abortion stunt, and pro-choicers saying it’s a pro-lifer stunt. I refuse to believe anyone with any actual belief in one side or the other would do something this depraved to prove a point, but maybe it’s true.
I despair for humanity.
The whole idea of this make’s me sick….you make me sick you don’t deserve to be a mum and dad you are both vile !!
Only criminals make the choice to murder another human being.
you guys are fucking sick.
So… can we hold a poll as to whether or not you guys should die? Disgusting people, enough said!
Of course you have a right to do this, as it’s a free country, but I find it very dis-tasteful that you would allow people to vote as to whether you give birth to your baby or not.
It’s a baby!! It’s a human being!! That precious little life is valuable and has meaning.
IF nothing else, at least give your child to someone who can’t have children and cries herself to sleep every night wishing she could. Where is your heart?? I’m just sitting here with my mouth wide open in shock to have found this site.
Please, please don’t kill your baby…. please??
Listen to these whiny people. “A bloo bloo bloo you’re disgusting people wahh you should die.” Fuck babies, it’s their (well, her) body and if she wants to get rid of something that doesn’t even live yet.
Don’t come here with facts telling me I’m dumb and wrong because I literally don’t give a shit about you. >:)
what the fuck? who does this sick shit? these mofo’s need to drug out to a field after they have that baby and beaten senseless and then the public should vote on that too, weather they live or die and see how they like it
I’m gay as heck fuck the birthers
I too had two miscarriages before having a healthy pregnancy, the second pregnancy was thought to be twins. I mourn the loss of those 3 children often so I am completely at a loss when it comes to being able to understand your plight. I haven’t read all of your posts, I only just learned of this site today, so I don’t know your whole story.
I am concerned that your allowing your pregnancy to be a “reality show” but with that said … if you don’t think (after carrying your child this long) that you want to keep the baby, why not give him/her up for adoption. You can see from your ultrasounds that there is a beautiful life growing inside of you. There is a woman out there somewhere that would love to love your child and would thank God for you every day. An abortion just takes a decision but adoption takes real courage – courage to go through birth and let someone else reap the benefits, courage to put yourself out there enough to allow something you do to bless another persons life.
“WIggles” will grow up to be an amazing person (I know this because I know that she is a blessing from God) and whether you parent her or someone else does, she will bless the lives of those who love her.
I will be praying for your decision.
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made…My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect…. How precious also are they thoughts unto me, O God!” Psalms 139:14-17
Am truly shocked. People like you deserve to give birth to a still born baby, to have the choice taken away from you.
The joys of the internet.
I just want to let you know what you are doing is wrong.
Why would you let people you dont even know decide something like this for you.
Killing your baby bc you might not know if you want to deal with it for the rest of you life is wrong. you got yourselfs into this and you should let it live. It is murder if you dont.
I just think of what you are doing and it does make me very sick. You are sick.
If you dont want this life you brought into the world then give it to someone that does.
One day you will look back at this and be ashamed. As you should be.
I just want to let you know what you are doing is wrong.
Why would you let people you dont even know decide something like this for you.
Killing your baby bc you might not know if you want to deal with it for the rest of you life is wrong. you got yourselfs into this and you should let it live. It is murder if you dont.
I just think of what you are doing and it does make me very sick. You are sick.
If you dont want this life you brought into the world then give it to someone that does.
One day you will look back at this and be ashamed. As you should be!
the parents should be aborted
these are not people
do with them as you will
find out who they are, find their addresses
If you cannot make this decision ON YOUR OWN then you need to stop having sex IMMEDIATELY. Since this isn’t your first time being knocked up, I would think you would of figured out how to use a condom, get on some birth control, have your tubes tied, get the snip, or just stop having sex. If you’re not ready to be parents, then you should of learned how to prevent it by now.
All you are after is your 15 minutes of fame and that is just sick. I feel sorry for the kid whether you abort it or not. If you abort it, it doesn’t get to live. If you don’t, it has you morons for parents and will definitely need therapy later in life. Lose-Lose situation for the kid.
And just so you know the baby is living right now. It is a life growing inside of you. anyone that trys to say the baby is not alive yet is wrong.
Think about what you will feel later on in life if you dont let the child you created live.
That will be the worst pain to ever deal with.
Your child is alive!!!
KILL the baby, and all the happiness that you expected in this life and in the next will not be there. All that you receive will be pain and deep suffering.
Are you crazy, can’t you feel nothing by seeing this little baby, most probably a girl?
What will happen when you are retired, no more job, but also no child to love?
But because you are so selfish and you can find the peace in your heart to kill your own baby, go ahead! I say, don’t do it, I love my two children, had a fulltime job and am perfectly happy with a husband, who was away for long times, when my children were young!
What are you?? wired to the moon or something…………???
People like you do not deserve the privilege and pleasure that children bring. Why on earth should you seek to publicize what should be a private decision – how do you think your children in the future will feel, that is if you are ever emotionally mature enough to accept the responsibility.
It’s gonna be a girl! Congrats!
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Fake to get people fired up is all.
You both are adults and there is a lot of people wanting a baby. As a new mom in my 30’s I really recommend to look for a good family for your baby. Pick one and have the baby and give him or her away. You both will feel muuuch better doing this than having an abortion so publicly. A wonderful family had pick by you should be the choice.
maybe you should just have the baby and give it up for adoption since it’s obvious you both really don’t care about the child. seeing all the updates and ultra sounds makes me extremely sad that either of you would actually consider creating this site. maybe therapy is what you both need. it’s people like you that make those who try desperately to conceive but cannot, sad to know that an innocent life is put into a situation where the parents do not care and only want attention. well i hope you’re both happy now because you both got it.
This site is totally fake. There is concrete evidence linking this site to a climate change denier site ‘The Church of Global Warming‘.
Although both sites have been registered anonymously, examination of each site’s source code shows that both sites have their web traffic monitored from the same Google Analytics account – UA7524334.
I’m pretty sure the users don’t condone the abuse of cats, so you should have left that out of the article.
For the record, I very strongly suspect that this entire website is a hoax designed to prove some sort of a Pro-Life point. Oh, I believe you’re pregnant. And I believe all the rest of it, save the idea that you would *actually* have an abortion. I believe that two college graduates are smart enough to know that there is no *way* the outspoken “moral majority” would let the vote tip anywhere near the abortion side for long. And so you set out to outrage the world, prove how against abortion the majority is, and maybe buy yourselves fifteen minutes of fame on FOX.
Regardless of your actual intent or motives, your poll does *not* give people an equal voice. It’s hard enough to keep voting honest in a real election, let alone in an internet poll. Furthermore, even if each person who votes does so only once, there is no way at *all* to verify the population demographic participating. This poll is therefore NOT an accurate depiction of adult, sentient, U.S. public opinion, which you claim to be interested in determining. I have read both blogs in their entirety, and like most people with a bogus agenda, you do nothing to answer your detractors’ arguments but continue to repeat your own ridiculous assertion that this poll gives people a voice, which is simply not true and even if it were the result should *certainly* IN NO WAY influence your own decision as to whether or not to continue a pregnancy. Repeating a fallacy over and over does not make it true (your tendency to do so stokes my suspicion that you are political uber-conservatives with no intention of having an abortion).
“We don’t see a difference between this and what politicians or supporters do in regards to campaigning.”
Then you are truly morons, as many people have already stated. Therefore, although *this* Pro-Choice woman voted for “Give Birth” on the off chance you are actually disgusting enough to follow through with an abortion voted upon by the public, I agree with the commentator above who expressed hope that nature takes care of the issue for you. I believe in reincarnation, and your baby’s soul is better off trying again with parents who are serious about being parents. S/he has *NO* hope of growing up to be a happy, well-adjusted adult with such dysfunctional, frivolous, despicable people for parents. You do not deserve to be parents, and may God/Goddess protect any soul from being saddled with you in that role.