Britain imports “U.S. style hardcore anti-abortion protesters”
On the heels of Rachel Maddow’s attempt last night to intimidate and silence pro-lifers, I thought I’d post the following to encourage pro-lifers to stay focused and stay the course.
By our protests and prayer vigils outside abortion mills, we not only stave abortion in the U.S., we set an example for the rest of the pro-life world. From The Independent, today:
British women who want to terminate a pregnancy are being confronted by Christian protesters picketing abortion clinics, in a copy of tactics used by hardcore anti-abortionists in the US.
A TX-based religious group, which has support and funding from hundreds of American churches, has been holding protests outside Marie Stopes House in central London, one of Britain’s first modern abortion clinics.
It is the first time that the group – called 40 Days for Life – has targeted an abortion clinic in mainland Britain….
Campaigners are holding a planned 40 days of protests, picketing clinics in 218 US cities, as well as in Australia, Denmark, Canada and Northern Ireland. The protest at Marie Stopes House was due to enter its 35th day today.
The group says that its London protest has resulted in 6 women changing their minds. It also claims 2 of the clinic’s staff have resigned. Marie Stopes denied this….
Darinka Aleksic, campaign co-ordinator at Abortion Rights, said she had been tracking a significant recent upswing in anti-abortion protests.
“American-style tactics are being increasingly used in Britain, not just with pickets but with internet campaigns and the use of misleading leafleting,” she said. “We are strongly in favour of women receiving as much support, counselling and information about abortion as possible. But we’re worried about the tenor of a lot of the advice being given out by these pickets. There’s a lot of emphasis on guilt and misleading scientific information.”
[Photo of pro-lifers in front of the London Marie Stopes via 40 Days]
That top picture really says it all. :(
Wow, I can’t believe they would put that vile woman on a postage stamp.
I wonder who has credit for the photo?
Quoting from the article: ” … There’s a lot of emphasis on guilt and misleading scientific information.” – Darinka Aleksic, campaign co-ordinator at Abortion Rights,
Which “misleading scientific information” would that be, Darinka?
If there is one thing I’ve learned over the years it is that abortion-choicers, AKA Slaughter-Butcher of babies supporters-pushers engage in volumes of misleading, false, inaccurate, scientifically incorrect information.
Examples?
Abortion pushers falsely claim that no one knows, or “we” don’t know when a new human being’s life begins.
That is false!
For more than 100 years the field of scientific study which actually specializes in this, the field of Human Embryology, has known that, with in-vivo, sexual reproduction, meaning inside the mother’s body, including sexual intercourse, the union of the sperm of the father with the ooctye of the mother, the new human being’s biological life begins at first contact of sperm and ooctye at the point the sperm penetrates the zona pellucida of the oocyte. There is also asexual reproduction, in vivo, meaning reproduction that results without sexual intercourse, without contact of sperm and ooctye, inside mother’s body (in vivo). This results in identical twinning, triplets, etc., and occurs when the embryo, during its rapid cell division in the early stages or early days of the embryonic stage, are totipotent – can give rise to another entirely new human being, and some cells or cell separate from the original main embryo and do result in a twin, triplets, etc. There are different ways this occurs, but that is the basic possibility.
This also occurs ex vivo as a result of modern reproductive technology. Ex vivo means outside the mother’-s body. In Vitro Fertilization can take place via sexual reproduction ex vivo - sperm and oocyte are introduced outside mother’s body, as in the lab. Also, ex vivo reproduction can take place via asexual reproduction, without sperm and oocyte, as in blastomere separation, blastocyst splitting, embryo splitting, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, Germ Line Cell Nuclear Transfer, and other methods.
That is but a short explanation of ways that new human being’s lives begin, and also pin pointing the actual time that we human beings begin. The most simple, basic, most common method is sexual reproduction, in vivo (inside mother’s body) and in that case a new human being’s life begins upon first contact of sperm and ooctye.
Another false scientific claim made by pro-aborts is that this is not a human being, not alive, not yet human, only a potential human being, or only a potential life, or potentially alive.
That is scientifically false and inaccurate. Anyone who makes such a specious claim shows their ignorance of science and hasn’t studied basic biology and human reproduction 101, nor have they learned the first thing about Human Embryology 101.
A human being is a member of the human race, no matter how new they are, or if they have all their limbs,, all their teeth, are in a coma, or whatever.
The human being is known by the number of chromosomes – standard 46, with some exceptions, such as 47 in cases of Downs Syndrome, and 45 as in cases of Turners syndrome, etc. The human being also only produces and/or exhibits only human enzymes, human proteins, etc. We know that from a human woman there is NEVER a fox, a turkey, a pig, a Velacoraptor, shark, ET, or whatever. We know, repeatedly, that the offspring of a human mother and human father will be a human being. The baby, in sexual reproduction, resulted in the union of the sperm of the father, a human being, and the oocyte of the mother, a human being.
Like produces like. You will never see a rose bush result from two orange seeds, nor will you see an oak tree result from the genetic material of a shark and a frog.
Regarding delayed hominization, or delayed humanity, it is nonsense! There is no delay.
The new person is comprised of human genetic material from the beginning. And she is alive from the beginning, for a living organism grows and develops, reacts and responds to stimuli - light, heat, nutrition, cold, movement, etc., requires certain materials to survive and develop – air, proper environment, nutrition, etc., and a living organism reproduces its own kind at reproductive age for its species, and grows old and dies. The human being, from the beginning, does all these things.
Abortion pushers also try to claim that the “product of conception” is just a clump of cells, or a blob of protoplasm. That is a concept that is more than 100 years old, before telescopes, and in the days of ignorance when people did not know any better. We now know that the cell itself is not just a blob of protoplasm, but contains the mitochondria which is the power house-power producing part of the cell, a nucleus which contains the DNA (mitochondria in humans also has some DNA), chromosomes which reside in the nucleus and contain the DNA, the information system which knows what to do to build a new human being, which traits to pass on, and so forth.
Pro-lifers also know of the horrific, cruel, violent methods of butchery utilized by abortionists and their staff, the chemicals which burn baby alive, the cutting, pulling, ripping, the induced labor and delivery, puncturing of baby’s skull, introduction of a suction device, suctioning the contents of the skull of the baby as he or she is being born, and even the cases of allowing a baby who survived abortion to die after birth without comfort or medical care.
There is also the abuse of women in abortuaries, the fear, etc., as well as the damage to women’s bodies – perforations, hemorrhaging, infections, scarring, damage to their reproductive systems, psychological and emotional trauma, etc. Let’s not forget the coerced abortions, the harassement, beatings, and murders of women who refuse to abort, etc.
There is more, but, that is enough for now.
Again, what is the so-called “misleading scientific information” that pro-lifers are supposed to emphasize?
What’s the deal with the use of Marie Stopes stamps, peace signs, and crayons? I’m fine with the use of pencils and coins to provide scale to a torn-up child, but can we quit-it with the undignified use of props to provide some kind of anti-abortion, creative commentary?
These were living people, not art projects.
Correction: I accidentally typed “telescope” in my previous comment, when I intended to type “microscope.”
To: The Independent
Calling the “40 Days for Life” group “hard-core, anti-abortion protesters” is a bit harsh, no?
A more appropriate term might be “devoted pro-lifers”.
I see your point Cranky. On one hand, using the body parts of slain children juxtaposed against other pro-abortion or genocidal imagery takes the primary focus off of the central issue which is the slain child. I could see how one might consider it disrespectful to use the bloody images of dead children to make commentary.
However, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform has used similar pictures to great effect. Comparing abortion to the Holocaust or slavery is a powerful weapon in the battle for hearts and minds.
Let’s say for example that instead of a Marie Stopes stamp it was a picture of the Angel of Death, Josef Mengele. That would be a very powerful message associating and comparing a very, very evil man with the crime of abortion.
Even though there are many deceived individuals who would commend and honor Stopes for her work, to see the picture of her face surrounded by the body parts of those she fought against and worked to kill brings needed perspective.
You are so right, we need to remember that these were living persons, innocently slaughtered. And doing so gives tremendous meaning and significance to their lives. What meaning, what significance one may ask?
The bloody images of their torn, mutilated bodies cry out for justice and vengence.
THEY ARE AN INDICTMENT AGAINST A WICKED, SIN-SICK, SELFISH WORLD.
A world our Precious Savior died to save.
We all need to be reminded continually that these were precious children. Thank you for that Cranky. But we need to show the world the brutality of their death in a variety of contexts in the hopes that some will “get it”, that they might be saved.
It wasn’t until Abby Johnson saw the graphic ultrasound of the murdered child that she was able to perceive the truth about abortion amidst the lies and propaganda she had been fed by the abortion industry.
We never know what image or combination of images will do the trick and cause the light of the truth to break through and shine in the hearts of those deceived by the enemy.
My problem isn’t with the CBR’s use of graphic images. My problem is with the photographer taking license with the body parts of dead children for creative commentary.
http://unusual-wow.blogspot.com/2009/10/abortion-ads-horrible.html
Northern Ireland? I thought abortions were illegal there.
Awaiting the approval – appearance of my post addressing the scientific facts to counter the false claims made by abortion advocates.
Found it, William.
William, thanks for your post …. the true facts about when human life starts and about the reality of abortion.
Evidently, as well, these dweebs can’t distinguish the difference between a protest and a prayer meeting.
There’s a lot of emphasis on guilt
Well, goodness knows we can’t allow any woman to feel “guilt” about having her child killed, right?
One of my coworkers has a maria stopes calendar hanging where I can see it. Ugh!! I tried to talk to her about it but, being post-abortive, she is radically pro-abortion and can’t even have a civil conversation for more than two sentences without become incensed. If I had a girls-in-bikini calendar up, though, she’d be down in Human Resources within the hour filing a complaint.