Donations?

This is not something I would not be comfortable in supporting on many levels.

I’m very much pro choice, whatever choice the woman makes is the best for her.

I think you would have gotten a better response if you had posted that you were looking for donations to give to give first time parents as an incentive to attending parenting classes, not as an incentive for people to “choose life” after being preached to at an anti-abortion clinic.

Very nicely said

I mean, this feels like typical anti-abortion mess to me. You must have the baby, and then you're on your own, except for symbolic things or thoughts and prayers.

Don't donate a bag. Support programs like affordable birth control and women's health care, affordable health care for children, daycare for all, preschool for all, guaranteed minimum income. Then we'll talk.

Bags ain't it.

I agree that some responses are too harsh, but this fund raiser appears to be self serving to the 31 consultant and possibly the op if she gets a kick back from the “party”. . There are way less expensive diaper bags available and that 30 for the bag could go a lot further without benefitting a 31 consultant, I think that is part of why this post rubs people the wrong way.

You obviously have the right to your beliefs regarding abortion, as do other people. I personally would never support a clinic like the one you mention because I don’t think they do as much to help the woman and girls as you think. They are very judgemental, I don’t think they do enough to support the woman and girls after the child is born and I think they emotionally blackmail girls that are scared and have no support system.

Planned Parenthood provides much more important services for girls and woman, imho.

I feel so deprived. I didn’t get any of that when I had my kids (ranging in age from 7 to 16). Especially not a free breast pump.

This sounds more like a bag party where you get free gifts for sales and the host makes money. Is she selling them at her cost, and are the freebies being donated too?

I’d go to tj maxx, and get the high quality diaper bags versus the MLM aspect.

I am one of those strange prolife prochoice people. I would like to see women choose life but I understand there are a lot of obstacles in many people's way. Likewise, I think there is room for all sorts of organizations and that many of them do good.

When my children outgrew their baby things, I donated them, to Catholic Social Services. Why? Because I wanted them to go to a woman who desperately needed them. So many good things that organization does for that county I formerly lived in and grew up in and I wanted to lend my support. I also took my kids there for non-religion based counseling when the divorce happened. They offer counseling on a sliding scale, but also take insurance. So I hoped that by using my insurance, paying copays, etc I was helping to subsidize a little bit of someone else's counseling needs.

On the flip side, I have used planned Parenthood for birth control services back when I was young and had no money. I am 100% in support of birth control as a means to accomplish my goal of not having women even have to make the decision to terminate a pregnancy. I donate to them, as well because I believe in that mission and I do think they do it well.

I view this as a team effort. We need everyone working together to try to minimize abortion. We need organizations to fill the holes in our social safety net. We need to do our part to try to help these women in any way we can. That's just my opinion.

Here's how that original post could have gone differently for me.
"I am volunteering with a clinic that offers services to pregnant women. The clinic offers parenting classes and I would like to be able to provide a diaper bag or tote bag to each woman who attends the classes, and as the classes continue the clinic will provide items to fill it from donated items, like diapers, wipes, blankets, bibs, etc. If you would like to help with this a donation of $30 provides the diaper bag and contents."

However the OP used the post to express her prolife views, emphasize what the clinic does and for who, and really, I'm glad she did in a way so I could steer clear. I don't think she needed to hair flip because she knew from being on this board that posts like that are going to have opposition and support, not always in equal measure.

Since I steered the thread south early on, I'm just chiming back in to say what could have changed the narrative for me.

I’ve had clients who got free pumps through their insurance (Medicaid) but mine unfortunately never covered it. It was actually frustrating because I have known people who were on Medicaid and didn’t actually breastfeed, so they sold their free pump.

I’m glad that some insurance companies are offering it, I just wish that it was across the board. That is my gripe with the insurance system in the first place. Politicians like to say that people on Medicaid have worse coverage, but from what I have seen that is not the case. Medicare is more restrictive as far as coverage and providers, but there are many services that Medicaid covers that commercial insurance doesn’t (or at least not many). Or that one commercial plan covers but another doesn’t.

Well, it is a PRO-LIFE Diaper Bag Drive so, expressing pro-life views would go right along with that. 
I'm always surprised at how so many people who are pro-choice object so vehemently when other people have a different choice and express it. 

Maybe I've listened to too much Alex Jones, but I feel like the influx of "new" conservative posters is not coincidental.

Remember that wonderful, kinder, more right leaning board they wouldn't stop hinting about? It almost seems like a few of those people decided to come back at the same time.

Their posts all end up the same: with feverish defenses of Trump and with them crying about mean liberals and liberal hypocrisy. Much like this thread.