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Husband ‘Admits’ Abortion Poll Was Fake, Wife Denies It

The couple in the middle of a controversial abortion website keeps extending their time in the spotlight. On Tuesday, CNN published a story saying that the creators of birthornot.com, where readers can vote on whether the couple should have an abortion, admitted the poll was a fake. But now the wife is denying that report.

The couple, Pete and Alisha Arnold, allegedly admitted to CNN on Tuesday that they were never going to get an abortion despite the poll’s results. Instead, the site was setup to raise awareness about the issue and give people a chance to share their thoughts.

Pete, a libertarian, told CNN that he bought the website domain well before his wife, who is pro-choice, got pregnant, adding that he had been considering the idea “for some time.” Despite the admission, however, Pete told CNN the site is not a hoax.

“My intent is not to deceive people, but at the same point, I do want people to talk about this,” he told CNN. “This seemed like a pretty good way to further the discussion, because people don‘t ever seem to want to talk about it for real if there’s no name on it, no Baby Wiggles.“ The couple intentionally named the unborn baby boy ”Wiggles” in order to give people more to think about.

“We chose our words very carefully.”

Maybe not carefully enough. Almost immediately after the original story broke, some began noticing Pete’s conservative, anti-abortion postings on the internet. He usually posts under the name “Zeeboid,” which CNN notes is also the name on his vanity license plates. And CNN also noticed another inconsistency: while on Friday Pete said he has made $40 off the site and invested $215, by this week those numbers had grown to $500 and $225.

But the biggest inconsistency may be between Pete and Alisha’s statements. In a posting on the couple’s site, Alisha says CNN’s claim that the couple admitted the site is fake is “simply not true.”

“My husband may wish that that was the case, but our early disagreement about this pregnancy is what lead us to start the website in the first place,” Alisha writes. “I clearly stated this to the reporter at CNN but my opinion was not included in the article that was published.”

The rest of the post reads like a marriage argument, with Alisha offering her views on abortion and how they differ from Pete’s.

“Pete and I are on different ends of the spectrum when it comes to our beliefs about abortion,” she says. “I’m sure I will receive considerable harassment about this post, but to me until the baby can survive without the mother (otherwise known as viability) it is not a feasible life.”

At one point she even snips that she “wears the pants” when it comes to the abortion decision: “In the end it would be me going through the procedure.”

She continues: “Even though my husband’s opinion and beliefs matter to me, I, as the one carrying the baby have the final say about my body and our unborn child.”

And although she admits she is “cautious” about becoming attached, she says she feels more “optimistic about moving forward.“ However it is unclear if ”moving forward” refers to an abortion or birth.

Currently, the “have an abortion” votes far outweigh the “give birth” ones. 74.52 percent, or 1,496,366 people, want Alisha to abort, while only 25.48 percent, or 381,286, want her to give birth.

UPDATE:

Alisha Arnold has been fired from her job because of the website. KTSP reports:

Her company, Eagan software firm, “TempWorks”, terminated Alisha’s employment with a company-wide memo. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS obtained the memo which says Alisha’s conduct is a grave threat to the reputation of the company.

We showed the memo to a University of Minnesota Labor Law Professor. William McGeveran told us private companies do not have a legal obligation to protect the free speech of its employees.  He also says employees might not like it, but the company can also tell its employees who they can and cannot be friends with on Facebook and other social networking sites. If employees do not like the restrictions, McGeveran says they have the option of leaving the job.

Comments (34)

  • kadiatu
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 2:20pm

    “I, as the one carrying the baby have the final say about my body and our unborn child.”

    She has the final say about their unborn child, but you can bet your bottom dollar that if he leaves her and she has the baby, she will hit him up for child support. Where is his choice? When is a father going to go to court and demand that he not be held financially responsible because he wanted an abortion and she “chose” to have the baby? I am pro-life and disgusted with this “choice” word, and we need a father with guts to stand up and show this Roe v. Wade for what it is. The baby and the father have no choice. And forget about how he made the choice already. So did she. It sickens me that anyone could want to murder an innocent baby.

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  • GrumpyCat
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 8:39am

    This is clearly one of the best examples in favor of a bit of chlorine be added to the gene pool.

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  • Rn mom
    Posted on November 25, 2010 at 3:33pm

    Wow, what a mom she will be- offering such a private decision for public debate- all of America gets a vote (except the baby, of course). Meanwhile, whenever the “right to life” people say that abortion is used as a form of birth control and that the unborn have rights too, the pro-choice people counter with “we need to offer it, it protects impregnated victims of rape and incest.”

    We would be naive to think that this cavalier attitude about the sanctity of life is not mainstream, but as Glenn says ‘what this generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace’.

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  • navychick
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:43pm

    i figured that is was fake. however this is still one of the worse way to get attention. they need to be reported and have their baby taken away.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:06pm

    This is where society has come. Take God out of the picture & this is one of the results.

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    • Rn mom
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 3:37pm

      She even posted pictures of the sono online. How sick is that? It reminds of the spree of internet suicides we had a few years back,

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  • dcmtlc666
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:33pm

    I’m glad God is the final judge!!!!!

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  • Fort Mill Joe
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:46am

    If I were him, I would be well on my way to aborting her from that marriage. She is a complete sick-o!

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  • MikeinIdaho
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:41am

    What a pair of numbskulls! I feel sorry for the baby having those two selfish idiots as parents! God will be watching both of them very carefully!

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  • fletcher200
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:30am

    “Even though my husband’s opinion and beliefs matter to me, I, as the one carrying the baby have the final say about my body and our unborn child.”

    Interesting she uses the terms “baby” and “unborn child” instead of fetus. So is she saying that if the baby was viable she would not abort? There’s story about a baby born at 23 weeks (not even into the third trimester) at http://www.newbornbabyzone.com/newborn/baby-survives-delivery-at-23-weeks/. So she would be for legislation that would make abortion illegal after 23 weeks? NOT! She also says “our” unborn child, but he doesn’t have a say? Wow!

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  • Kraevin
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:16am

    Imagine 14 years from now when this child finally understands what that website means and that it was about him or her. How would you like to find out your parents were so flippant and crass about your future to put the decision to the votes of trolls and hatemongers. I am not for abortion however i think these parents should have their parental rights teminated immediately and the baby given to a family that would love the child.

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    • Rn mom
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 3:35pm

      Sad, huh? She’s the new “mommie Dearest”-

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  • Iamtheoracle
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:00am

    She is grossly misinformed and how sad for this child if she decides to indeed “go through with it” I would not want her to be my Mother. And this man is a dope too – they probably deserve each other.

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  • dkhartman
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:37am

    There are more in favor of abortion? Probably because those of us who are smart enough to be pro life aren’t going to waste our time on garbage like that… Of course all the pro-muder folks out there would flock to the website in a second.. Get a life guys, this is moronic. Even if you are pro-murder you have to know it’s rather stupid to put a babies life in the hands of millions of strangers.

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  • LRC
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:33am

    And this is a story…why? I thought The Blaze was a news site…not a stupid people site…Oh wait, that would exclude all politicians, therefore, no news stories, never mind.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:18am

    Turns out this moron woman has lost her job due to her stupidity. Good!

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  • w8ing4A
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:02am

    It is so sad that people can be so detached from the miracle of life that God has used them to create that they could abandon and destroy it.

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  • godlovinmom
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:59am

    jeeez, what a story…what I can’t believe is the number of people that wanted them to get the abortion…if these numbers are right…what is wrong with people…and what a life this baby will live, having a mama like that…jeeez!

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    • ShaolynRose
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:31pm

      Alot of these votes hold the possibility from being from 4chan. They have gotten a hold of the site and abused it due to the ‘humor’ of it all. All of them, 4chan, and the couple are disgusting people.

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  • mlbinseattle
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:57am

    She would quickly become my ex-wife if she made those statements because she apparently doesn‘t give a rat’s a** what her husband thought or felt. If she wants to wear the pants, she’ll be wearing those, alone…and without me. Just her saying that “it‘s my body and I’ll do what I want” would have gotten her bags packed and sent back home to momma or wherever she came from.

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  • Philo Beddoe
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:55am

    Ha Ha, jokes on us the American taxpayer.

    People like this are able to control rational thinking Americans.

    Their child will probably grow up being some whack jack and the parents will blame the system for ignoring the kid‘s needs when it is the parents that mold the child’s personality.

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  • WireWizard
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:55am

    This is the One Big Issue couples are supposed to agree on BEFORE marriage.
    Oops, now that she’s pregnant, lets have that discussion about murdering babies…

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    • john seven eighteen
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:01am

      It does beg the question, did she tell him (and vice versa) her opinion on abortion before they married? And if so, did they discuss when and if they would have kids. Hmmmm….

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    • Bevaboo
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:40pm

      I know that was one conversation my husband and I felt compelled to have before we tied the knot. We’d planned to wait a year, then get pregnant with our first, with 3 years between children. (He said he wanted 5 children; I said I’d compromise with 3 if he really wanted a third. He didn’t, lol.)

      As fate would have it, I got pregnant one month to the day after our wedding, and again within a couple weeks of our baby’s first birthday. But, you’re right. They should have already had that conversation a long time ago. An internet poll is no way to make those kinds of decisions.

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  • nsblues
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:44am

    Maybe Pete ought to see if divorceornot.com is available. Looks like thats where they are headed

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  • john seven eighteen
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:42am

    It was deceitful, disgusting and inexcusable, and here we are still talking about it. I guess the accomplished their goal. Congratulations, now get lost!!!!

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  • diablosho
    Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:40am

    She would quickly become my “ex-wife” for those statements. Anybody that thinks an abortion ONLY affects the woman is gravely mistaken. I would become homicidal if my wife aborted my baby boy.

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    • Shurmus
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:50am

      Abortion seems to be just another symptom of the left’s “out of sight, out of mind” mentality. Think about it…Middle Eastern women, unborn fetuses, actual scientific evidence to support evolution and man-made global warming, etc. It is all very curious. You traditionalists better be ready…cause these solenodon wannabees are hungry.

      http://www.slugbuddies.com

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    • M31Sailor
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 9:09am

      Yes my son is in the balloon, No I don’t know anything about it. Both your mothers should have had miscarriges.

      M31Sailor  
    • Barricuda
      Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:09am

      The pregnant female in this story, otherwise known as the “non mom” argues that “viability” is the line in the sand. If the baby has not achieved “viability” which she defines as “..being able to exist on its own..” then it is acceptable to kill it. Yet, a baby cannot exist on its own for quite sometime after its born. So, based on that definition would it be acceptable to kill the “unviable mass” even when its 6 months old? “Yes” would seem to be the logical answer based on this theory.

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    • *************************
      Posted on November 25, 2010 at 10:27pm

      “Abortion Pole”?
      Is that some kind of medical device?

      “[singing] I’ve been with thousands of men. Again and again. They promise the moon. They’re always coming and going, and going and coming, and always too soon. Right, girls?” -Lili Von Shtupp

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