Woman will have an abortion unless 50k is raised.

[Divameow77]

This may have been posted already and I missed it but...

http://helpmybabylive.com/

[AllegroRondo]

1. extortion?

reminds me of that TV preacher back in the 80's who said God would "call him back" unless he raised a certain amount of money.

[Zavulon]

2. I'm amazed that no pregnant women have tried this before.

I wouldn't send the woman a cent. I can't imagine that a woman who would pull a stunt like this would be all that good of a mother.

[Divameow77]

3. I assume it's a hoax

but I still think it's disgusting. There are other ways to torture the extreme pro-lifers then like this.

[Zavulon]

4. My girlfriend thought so, too.

This actually strikes me as something someone would be enough of an asshole to do for real, though, so I'll assume it's legit until shown otherwise. I would not be surprised at all to learn that you're right, although if you are and that woman has collected so much as a penny, she's probably got some serious jail time coming to her in the future.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Other possibility: she may really be pregnant but with NO intention whatsoever to have an abortion.

Then it's still a scam, but unprovable in a court of law. She may very well say in the end, "oh, we only collected $1,500 but I'm having my baby." Then what?

[Zavulon]

7. Good point. I took the word "scam" to mean a hoax, kind of like a Snopes thing.

The way you lay it out, you're right - unprovable. I should have thought of that.

[El Fuego]

5. The link doesn't work, but I have this to say....

Cost of web site and URL: $100

Cost of preventing one abortion: $50,000

Making the "pro-life" hypocrites squirm: PRICELESS!!!!!

[Connonym]

8. nah, they'll probably just send one of their wackjobs to shoot her

that kind of logic works for her

[seemunkee]

9. This was posted in GD a week or so ago

I believe they traced the website registration to some antiabortion whack job.

[mitchum]

10. Someone has seen the movie "Citizen Ruth"

[triguy46]

11. Reminds me of this

?t=1183079932

[Withywindle]

12. She'd probably raise the money faster if she said

"If I raise $50,000, I WILL get an abortion. Otherwise, I'll bring a child into my sick, sad little world. I've already got a cage in the basement ready to keep it in."

It'd make ME want to donate more, anyway.