Karen,
I simply don’t have enough finger energy to reply to everything you have posted in this thread but I will make it clear and concise as possible for you and others. I understand where you are coming from and I know you do but now let that view be challenged if you will.
First thing is that there are no medical reasons that a live baby should ever be aborted. Ask any doctor in the world and they will agree. Abortion is often advised strongly especially by poorly educated doctors who don’t want to bother with difficult situations. Always get a second opinion from a prolife doctor. I have explained this in another forum but I have a background in medicine and am more then adequately trained to state this accurately.
Karen… I used to believe as you do that graphic imagery was not the way to go, that was in 2003, now I’m part of the national leadership of prolifers who use this tactic mostly because not much else works, the proof is there and this is why we do it.
This parent in this photo was able to properly teach their child about abortion, perhaps she can be a role model to you:
markharringtonlive.com/gallery/album33/aaq. Do you see that child crying in a fit or anything? No.
I want to give you two sources of information for you and others to take a look at. The first is my finished national prolife movie that is simply the talk given put to a movie for people who can’t attend that talk. It is located at:
youtube.com/profile?user=cbrinfo. When you see that part 1 is up it is completely uploaded, I am doing so as I type this to youtube.
Incase you don’t want to watch the entire movie here is what you should read that hopefully will get you thinking:
***Prolifers against the showing of these photos will state that there are different ways of going about our message, that it creates a phinatical view, they will argue the delivery, the view of these so called prolifers completely contradicts the history of social reform that has proven effective. Most prolife people have no idea of the specifics of the history of social reform, they don’t understand that social reformers are never EVER liked and are always unpopular, because they are always confronting a culture that does not want to know more about an injustice for which they bare some responsibility, so this idea that we can be liked and effective is foolish at best and eerily similar to the aims of the prochoice movement- to be liked, being liked in the past has never been successful in overturning any other form of injustice, covering up abortion is not an effective way of convincing people that abortion is an evil that should be unlawful and always unthinkable. ***
***Feelings against these graphic signs aren’t enough. You need to provide evidence for making the bold claim that these images do more harm then good, especially in light of the evidence of changed minds, babies saved, and men and women brought to repentance all as a result of graphic images. And whatever evidence you have, it should be weighed against the following information:
The following statements were given by women who contacted CBR and told them that the only reason they did not have an abortion was because of seeing the graphic photos. We will only read a few tonight because of time constraints, these and many others are available to read on CBR’s website.
***. I am now pregnant and these photos have made me see that [having an abortion] is not a humane thing to do.
Age 17
- I used to think [abortion] was o.k. because the baby wasn’t born, but after seeing the pictures I wanted to throw up, because I have three children and with the third one I thought about abortion because it was too much, but I didn’t and I am so very glad, because every time I look at her I couldn’t imagine life without her.
Age 25 from Pennsylvania
- I am 8 weeks pregnant at the moment and was considering abortion. There’s no way I could consider it now. I didn’t realize exactly what was entailed.
Age 27, Cardiff,Wales (UK)
- Well, I was thinking of abortion because my children are gonna be less than 2 years apart but after reading everything and looking at the pictures I can’t do it.
Age 19, Florida
- I am 9 weeks and 3 days pregnant. Several people were telling me to have an abortion. I will NOT have an abortion; instead I will give a life to this world. Thank you so much!
Age 22, Dallas, Texas
- I’m a 22 year old Spanish girl. I got pregnant by my ex. He wants me to get an abortion and he says that he is not going to be responsible for my child. I was thinking on it because I’m in college and I don’t have anything done yet, but I was looking at the pictures and this is horrible. I don’t know how people can easily kill like this. I’m going to keep my baby; I know we are going to be happy.
Edison, NJ
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