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‘Whore’: Is Pregnancy Card Funny or Offensive?

Whore Pregnancy Card Cause Stir, What Do You Think?

You can stumble upon sleazy greeting cards in certain book stores and certainly the Internet, but shoppers at Target have been taken aback by a card that has found its way to the shelves of the greeting card area of stores in California. The card means to poke fun at the expecting, reading on the front “heard you’re pregnant,“ and on the inside one word rhyming with ”chore.” FOX 40 reports that some find it funny, others think it’s offensive.

Whore Pregnancy Card Cause Stir, What Do You Think?

” I can’t believe they put that out there for sell. I would be offended as well,” wrote one commenter on the station’s Facebook page. However, many other commenters agreed with and “liked” another writer who said “If you dont like it then dont buy it!!!!! Personal choice!”

What do you think?

 


Comments (98)

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  • MOVETERAN
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:49am

    Really, with all the issues going on in this country, this makes news? You guys have complained about all the worthless garbage being seen and listened to that is being produced by other media companies and the best you got is some company decided to use a little freedom of speech. If you don‘t like alcohol don’t go to the bar. If you don’t like naked women getting tips at a club, don’t go. If you don’t like what the card says, don’t buy it, don’t read it. Oh and writers and editors and all you guys at the Blaze can we now get back to something that qualifies as real news?

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    • WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges05
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 7:17am

      ” ‘Whore’: Is Pregnancy Card Funny or Offensive?”

      … or True?

      “Over the last decade, the percentage of all high school students (9-12th grade) who report ever having had sexual intercourse has declined. At the same time, among teens who are sexually active, rates of contraceptive use – including condom use – have increased. Both factors help to account for the decrease in teen pregnancy rates in recent years. Yet, despite these trends, about a third (34%) of young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20 – about 820,000 a year,1 and approximately four million teens contract a sexually transmitted disease (STD) each year.”
      -U.S. Teen Sexual Activity Fact Sheet

      TRUTH as a defense.

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    • WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges05
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 7:21am

      ” ‘W hore’: Is Pregnancy Card Funny or Offensive?”

      … or True?

      “Over the last decade, the percentage of all high school students (9-12th grade) who report ever having had sexual intercourse has declined. At the same time, among teens who are sexually active, rates of contraceptive use – including condom use – have increased. Both factors help to account for the decrease in teen pregnancy rates in recent years. Yet, despite these trends, about a third (34%) of young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20 – about 820,000 a year,1 and approximately four million teens contract a sexually transmitted disease (STD) each year.”
      -U.S. Teen Sexual Activity Fact Sheet

      TRUTH as a defense.

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    • Gary747
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 7:23am

      Ok, try this. You’re a veteran? You murdering whore! Now I know this statement is worthless garbage, but I’m using my freedom of speech, and if you don’t like my reply, don’t read it, or don’t comment on the story. The point is, freedom comes with responsibilities, and this card is not being responsible to a culture that should strive for better. Simply saying someone is free to display pornographic trash in a public location removes any responsibility for being obscene. Saying “don’t look at the card” is ridiculous, once you’ve already seen it!

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    • Drakkhanlord
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 7:30am

      Merck brought aids plus other fun to the US …

      Search Dr Maurice Hilleman…
      Search Deadly Inoculations , shots etc…
      Search Bill gates and Depopulation

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    • old white guy
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:26am

      if given to the woman who has 15 kids by several differnt men , it would be approriate.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:03am

      Should also give a link or web site to sign up for EBT…..only nine months until you get the BIG BUCKS!!!

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    • Ballot_Box_Revolution
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:16pm

      If you don‘t like it don’t buy it. If enough people are not buying it they will quit making it because they would see it not worth the paper it’s printed on.

      If enough people are buying it…well enough said, public opinion approves and they will keep printing them.

      That is how markets work, we don’t need law makers to step in and regulate the card market too…

      Start instilling values, and morels in your children and the demand for this type of card will drop….It starts at home people.

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:50pm

      Here is some News
      The passage of S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act
      B laze ????

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:12pm

      It wasn’t all that long ago that the NAACP protested a Hallmark graduation card -

      CULVER CITY, Calif. (KABC) — A graduation card sold at local stores has been pulled from shelves after a civil rights group raised concerns about the content. The group claims the card’s micro-speaker plays a greeting that’s racist.

      It is a graduation greeting from Hallmark that says, “Hey world, we are officially putting you on notice.”

      Members of the Los Angeles NAACP did take notice. As characters known as “Hoops” and “Yoyo” banter on, African American leaders hear offensive language. NAACP calls Hallmark card racist

      “And you black holes, you are so ominous. Watch your back,” the card vocalizes.

      http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7475737

      Where is the NAACP now?

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    • ghostsouls
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:37pm

      Jst another nail in the coffin of American morals.

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    • MOVETERAN
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:40pm

      The simplist way to put it is this: I don’t ask you to be responsible for me. I don’t ask you to take care of me, or to work so I can stay home. I ask nothing from you, other than to respect me as a human being. I ask that you respect my rights to make my own choices. I only ask for what I will give you. I respect your right to live your life and to shop where you want and to buy the products that you want.

      This card will not kill people if they buy it. This card will not cause mass starvation or world war. This card is nothing unless you decide to throw it up and throw a temper tantrum. So what, someone did their job and produced a new product for the company they work for. Is it in bad taste? Maybe to some, but it isn’t offensive unless you read it and that word rings some kind of truth inside you. It isn’t offensive until someone comes along and decides they have the right to tell others what is and what is not offensive. It isn’t child porn, it isn‘t a drug and it isn’t a crime. So let it go and worry about improving your own life and let the rest of us improve our own.

      Respect my right to form the opinion that the time spent on this article could have been spent on something more important, like the Muslim Brotherhoods sweeping election wins in Egypt or maybe why there have been so many explosions in Iran lately and who is behind it. Maybe the time could have been spent on something that threatens life right now. We have lots of that going on.

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    • ramburner
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 6:53pm

      Thus the comment; if you don’t like it, don’t buy it! Yes, it is news. Vote Backmann/Santorum in 2012

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    • Arfmoogle
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:52pm

      Another possibility…”We heard you are pregnant…” Inside: “Do you know who the father is?”

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    • foobear
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:18am

      @Wedont: You can be preggers and not a “whore”. But I dislike the term, used seriously, in any event.

      Part of the double standard that looks down on people like Bristol Palin more than her rat Levi.

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  • chrisden
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:50am

    Certainly, freedom of speech gives the manufacturer of the card the right to produce it, but there is so much crudeness and debasement in our culture these days that I wish Target would have thought twice about including it in their inventory of cards. They do have a choice of what items to sell and they made the wrong choice here.

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  • tbagger
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:28am

    Out of curiosity why is it that whore is the first word of the headline but in the article they ryhmed it to chore and blurred the wh in the picture?

    Of course people will be offended by this. There are people out there offended by the saying Merry Christmas.

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  • n1shepard
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:55am

    Ok heres my point im sorry if this offends anyone im sorry but honestly I think America has more to worry about than kids getting a hold of this card. Kids do way worse things than read cards I mean I m not sure if everyone sees how kids act in public or doing drugs carrying guns etc….but i think a card is the last thing anyone should worry about. My biggest problem with this is this is all u have to talk about??? Isnt there more things in america to worry about??? Like money soldiers making it home and your really worried about a stupid card!!!! It just goes to show that aericans have nothing better to do than complain u know at least u have the right to complain its freedom of speech it what us soldiers keep fighting for. And as far as shutting target down how come we dont shut gun shops down??? You know there are people in other countries that wish they could even go to a target n ur wanting to shut it down over a card. How many of you have been to spencers? You dont have tobe 18 to go in there but yet you dont want to shut it down???

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  • hillbillyinny
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:47am

    I don’t shop at Target anyway! I’ve found the store to be cheeze, understocked and understaffed. Everything in the store look “plasticy” including the clothes!

    There are inexpensive stores and sales at regular stores that far surpass Target’s prices and quality. An when I get home, I don‘t feel like I’ve been shopping in a plastic factory.

    Cheap goods, cheap “thrills.”

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  • SmarterThanTheAverageBear
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:41am

    With more than half the children in many cities being born out of wedlock this card is not only funny but truthful. I know a few I could have sent it to :)

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  • lel2007
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:39am

    “you probably don’t have any cool friends who would buy that card for you as a joke so why worry about it?”
    What a pathetic defense of a materialistic, in-your-face, crude, rude, down & dirty, “cool” society. Everyone strives to live the life of a rock star. Cool. Just because you can doesn’t necessarily mean you should, unless you’re really “cool”.

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    • Brooke Lorren
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:10am

      I guess I’m not really offended that someone made the card, or that Target sells it, but I would be offended if someone gave it to me.

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  • lel2007
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:29am

    The disturbing thing about the card’s reading, and it being sold by a major retailer, is that it reflects the state of American culture.

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  • 82dAirborne
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:03am

    Simple freedom of speech. The only speech that needs protection is that speech which SOME find offensive.

    Don’t shop at Target. Don’t allow your children to shop at Target.

    Quite a few people would like to shut me up here on The Blaze. (Can’t say as I blame them) The question is if they shut Target up or shut me up what’s to stop “them” from silencing you??????? Be careful what you wish for……………………….

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:56am

      82

      I have never seen you say anything that anyone should want to silence.However I am
      big on freedom of speech I have seen some trolls on here that I wish I could
      silence…… although I wish they would just go some other place to spew.lol…..

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  • mcmeador
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:41am

    I don’t see what the big deal is. If you’re so uptight that you find no possible way that it could be humorous, you probably don’t have any cool friends who would buy that card for you as a joke so why worry about it? You should go join Occupy Wall Street if you want to make everyone else’s life as miserable and lame as your own.

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  • CommonSenseTalk
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:36am

    Stop telling me what I can and cannot buy. Really this is the biggest moral problem in America that needs to ban Target for. Sure the dollar is almost worthless and will be cheaper then tissue paper, we are the worlds police force, our president and wife hates America and wants to change it into something else but will not tell us what. Lets stop shopping at Target that will fix it and make us feel better. Hey lets tax the rich more and give it to the Government, I’m sure they will use it wisely…

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  • eric6161
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:08am

    I never dated a woman that would have continued dating me if I had given her a card like this. A card like this is either given to a whore, or it’s given by someone who never intends to see the person ever again, or it‘s given by someone with stunted maturity who actually thinks it’s funny… and they will wonder…”I’m a nice guy; why can’t I find a decent woman.” And the answer is… because you’re not a nice guy.
    Give it to that whore who has 15 kids by 3 men… she’ll appreciate it… It might bring tears to her eyes.

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    • beverlee
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:24am

      It is most likely a card given between girlfriends. I don’t get it, I never have, and I don’t have much respect for women who think its funny. Kind of like blacks who use the “N” word.

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  • Laus Deo
    Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:00am

    Another good reason not to shop there.

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  • Pouncing Porcupine
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:55pm

    I love all the “If you don’t like it, don’t buy it” comments. These are no doubt the same vile reprobates who would say “Against abortion? Don’t have one.” We’re talking about Target, here not an adult novelty shop. Children and teenagers browse the card aisles. and they don’t need anymore filth brought to their attention than they already get from every other direction. Target should immediately abandon this and any similar products they sell.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:06am

      What if most of us didn’t care for what you had to say. Would it be okay to make you stop posting? Of course not! What’s the difference?

      We are talking about a card not the murder of babies.

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    • MOVETERAN
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 4:00am

      That is why children should always be accompanied by their parent’s. It is the parent’s job to raise and protect their children. So if you don’t want your children reading this I guess you better keep an eye on them. Quit letting the media educate your children and quit letting the government brain wash you into thinking they are better parent’s than you.

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    • theniki
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:03am

      Vile reprobate here – I DO say if you don’t like it, don’t buy it, if you don’t like the store, don’t go there, oh, and if you’re against abortion, don’t have one.

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  • PATRIOTGRUNT
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:45pm

    No comment on this non story.

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    • Pouncing Porcupine
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:00am

      Not commenting would be REFRAINING from typing text into the “speak-your-mind“ box and hitting the ”reply” button.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:08am

      I refuse to comment on the non-comment about the non-story!

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  • dukeofpaducah
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:44pm

    Just sounds like a “tounge in cheek” type of card that one friend would give to another friend.

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    • jharper
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:48am

      I agree with you! I once gave a friend of mine a “sensitivity chip” for her birthday.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:42pm

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    Well C’mon now we all know some special that could use a card like that…..

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:40pm

    Personally I find it offensive but I wouldn’t buy it. Freedom of speech says they have a right to produce it. I would rather not give up my freedom than make something like this lack of class a issue.

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  • Eliasim
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:34pm

    Whether the card should be sold really isn’t the issue, but it is just a symptom of the larger issues of life just being to easy and not enough plagues.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:37pm

      People just have too much time on their hands and idle hands are the devil’s playground.

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    • Pouncing Porcupine
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:09am

      The issue is WHERE the card is being sold. Hey, they can sell this crap at porn shops all day long, but Target, or any other store where children frequent, should have the common sense and decency not to stock it.

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  • Trevorkian420
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:31pm

    They should have given one of these to that black lady from Florida with the 15 kids

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  • Southernsoul
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:22pm

    Why is the word ‘WHORE’ in the headline, but blurred out in the picture?

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  • MTCOWBOY711
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:14pm

    Mr. Santarelli, as the nation and world crumble you polish the brass on the Titanic, way to put those journalism skills to such important matters.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:06pm

    HA, funny.

    It’s better than one I seen, “So your pregnant, I guess the abortion didn’t work.”

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  • dealer@678
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:05pm

    I think its offensive to all the illegal mexicans who breed like Cane Toads

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  • jespasinthru
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:04pm

    If I were pregnant and somebody sent me that card, I would never speak to that person again. The card is meant to be offensive. Only an enemy would think that way.

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