Pro-life photo of the week: Abortion clinic bricks
Today’s photo of the week is by… me!
I snapped the shot on a whim as I was reading one night last week and was a bit surprised at the interest it garnered on Twitter and Facebook after I posted it on Instagram.
The photo is a side shot my nightstand, on which I have three bricks from three different closed abortion clinics that I use as a pen holder.
The bricks serve as an encouragement as to what we have accomplished, but they also hurt my soul to its core when I meditate on what went on inside the walls they held together.
Jul.26, 2014 12:00 pm |
Photo of the week |
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I can understand how it makes you feel. It is a grave marker in a way. Behind those brick walls thousands upon thousands of human beings were slaughtered.
I kept a piece of the tree from which my father fell to his death. Some thought it was macabre but it was important to me. A way of remembering my father and how he died. A way of tying me physically to where he died.
In a way having those bricks is a way of telling those babies and those around you that you haven’t forgotten. Even after the last clinic is closed we will mourn because there are millions of people missing from our lives because of abortion. It isn’t just about closing clinics for us. It is about ending abortion.
I agree with sydney. id rather it be a pen holder than a wall holding up a clinic that kills babys. When my late husbands 26 yr old son hit a telephone pole in 2004 he was dead on impact. 100mph in a GTO. My husband raced to the scene and put some pieces of Stevens skull teeth and bloody $ in a box.
Just like when Castros house was demolished they are going to turn it into a park.
Nothing wrong with this pen holder. I think we should try to make something positive out of tragedy.
The 3 generations of pro choicers is disturbing. I was watching an interview with post abortive Kathy Najimy. The interviewer asked her if she was happy with one child. She appeared aprehensive ( probably not wanting to talk about her regret free abortion ) then replied ” Well I kinda like it just being the 3 of us.” I couldnt help but think of the 4th. Kathy has always said she wants abortion legal in case her daughter ever chooses it. I have pro life kids.
I would think those bricks would carry some bad karma!
Your interior decorator would shutter.
This reminds me a bit of the parents of Daniel Rohrbough (one of the Columbine HS victims), who kept the slab of sidewalk he died on and put it in their backyard. Though it may not be everyone’s taste, I don’t think it is weird or creepy to hold on to objects related to the death of people. Everyone mourns in their own way.