Take down the adverts
Posted by Maman Poulet on 12 Aug 2009 at 05:34 am | Tagged as: Abortion, Irish Politics
Following up on the post yesterday on the very flawed Campaign on Rogue Pregnancy Counselling Agencies I see the advertising agency involved, Rothco, has joined the fray and blogged about the campaign and its roll out.
Have a look at their post and in particular look at the flash ad at the end of the post to see the puppetry and a prime example of what I consider the abusive and misleading nature of the campaign.
If this ad is going to appear online anywhere and indeed if you see it on Irish websites let me know and let the website owners know that you object to it.
Tell your friends about the campaign and the problems with it.
And feel free to leave comments here about what you think. The Crisis Pregnancy Agency and Rothco spent a lot of time sitting on this blog yesterday (everyone welcome!) – it’s time they stopped what they are about to launch, take down the ads and apologise to women who have experienced the bullying and abuse at the hands of the rogue agency that the Government and the Crisis Pregnancy Agency are failing to regulate.
There are much better ways of promoting ‘the availability of free, non-judgemental State-funded crisis pregnancy services’ and provide information on which agencies to avoid.
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‘Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated’? What a load of manipulating nonsense – the CPA and the advertising agency should be ashamed of themselves. The Government should just legislate to make unregulated agencies illegal. Copping out and blaming women – typical Irish solution – it’s so abusive! The bullying is not just from the rogues! In fact this is Statutory bullying!
If the Crisis Pregnancy Agency had any sense, it would/should be promoting the POSITIVE options.
I agree, the puppet on a string campaign is crazy. Frankly, it’s looks to me like Rothco have CPA on a string!
I think you said it here:
“There is little regulation of the services that are funded by the state – no mandatory counselling qualifications are required of the groups who provide services, and there is no independent complaints procedure in respect of these groups or the groups who are not funded and advertise services.”
This IS the real problem – not just ALL crisis pregnancy counselling agencies are fundamentally unregulated, but that ALL counselling agencies are fundamentally unregulated.
I was horrified last year to be handed a “business card” from a transgendered lady who was describing herself as a “Consultant on Gender Identity issues” despite having no qualification aside from a brief course in group facilitation. I would say that this individual is every bit as dangerous to vulnerable people as a rogue counselling agency is to a pregnant woman who isn’t sure what she is going to do. But the problem right now remains that “life coaches”, “counsellors”, even many kinds of holistic counsellors, can print a business card, slap a plaque on their door and operate as “experts” without any regulation.
Some countries such as Luxembourg demand minimum qualifications, experience and membership of a professional organisation for anybody to provide any kind of counselling or advice. I think this badly needs not only adoption here, but to be extended to groups that freely dole out advice. Nobody should be allowed to act as an “expert” on anything just on their own ego, beliefs and life experience without serious scrutiny.