Poland: Bishop opens graphic abortion exhibition at shrine
Good for the bishop. Am very proud. Our Polish contact reports “this was the first such event in Poland.”
Poland stands as a shining example of a country where abortion was once legal but was made illegal (in 1993). Understandably, though, the battle remains fierce, hence the need to show the reality of abortion, as in the new exhibition.
An article posted a day before the exhibit opened reported (translation a bit rough):
From 18 May 2011 in Wloclawek in the courtyard of the Franciscan monastery will present an exhibition of anti-abortion. Of the 14 large boards are shown photographs removed by the abortion of human fetuses.
The exhibition is a series of photos of corpses mangled fetuses and children over 10 years screened in many Polish cities.
On Wednesday at 13.00 Bishop Wieslaw Mering will open an exhibition at the Shrine of Our Lady of Grace sure hope, that in the monastery oo. Franciscans at Freedom Square. It is organized by the foundation “Pro – the right to life.”
In other cities, where there was an exhibition aroused a lot of emotion. Its purpose is to draw attention to the problem of killing innocent children.
Of the 14 large boards are shown photographs removed by the abortion of human fetuses juxtaposed.
The pictures are really dramatic, and the exhibition itself sparked controversy, was repeatedly destroyed, and its organizer appeared in court.
See more photos here. The display is courtesy of the Polish branch of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, which is extremely effective. Recall the Hitler/abortion display.
[Photos via WrotaKujaw.pl]
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.
Amen! We need more clergy like him!
My “jee-ah-jee” is very proud. *wipes tear* I’m a little verklempt; talk amongst yourselves…
Hmmm………Imagine if there were traveling displays, starting in Catholic churches, traveling to every church, every diocese….set up outside with big black cloth barriers with big warning signs to pique curiosities (forbidden fruit and all that), and maybe a little of the content “accidentally” visible through gaps….graphic signs from the CBR, abortion instruments (instruments of torture) in cases, with Fr. Frank Pavone’s descriptive videos playing….a “must see” for Catholic high school students…..the truth unveiled!
Bishop Mering, work on your brother bishops!
“Verklempt”? That ain’t Polish! :)
Lol!! I don’t think it’s yiddish either but I almost fell off my chair and onto my dupa.
Jill
This is. Because of Jill and the work she does Niemowle are safer in their mothers’ womb. When you drive by that abortion mill that you got spooked at you should bring some annoiting oil and in faith claim that building for something that will bring people joy. Once after I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit we were passing by a bar that I had spent way to much time in when I was younger and I just got upset with the devil for stealing so much from me. So I just said Lord it’s a bar now but I claim that the bar will close down and they will put a carwash there instead. :) And that’s exactly what happened. Another time a friend kept complaining because her daughter worked at a place that was very demeaning for women. I just believed that it would close down and spoke it into the spiritual realm and it did. When your going to feel faith stirred in your heart I’m believing your going to pay that abortion mill a visit and something good will take its place.
It’s always literally the same exact pictures on display at these things. You’d think they could get some fresh pics. These ones are getting pretty old.
Joan :
http://www.abortionno.org/
Joan, that is a horrifying remark. But quelle surprise. I feel sorry for you.
Yes! We need more bishops like this courageous man!
I’m just saying, mix it up a little bit, that’s all. Maybe a few pics with a more diverse color palette would help too.
It’s always literally the same exact pictures on display at these things. You’d think they could get some fresh pics. These ones are getting pretty old.
Yeah, y’know, those Auschwitz photos on display at museums are pretty old and outdated, too. We need fresh pics.
Oh, wait…
I have been waiting a long time for the official ‘real’ abortion photos. Joan, surely you could find them on the interwebs for us and post them here. I’d love to compare and contrast.
Joan
If these don’t speak to that piece of stone you call a heart, I doubt fresh pics would either.
Nothing like bishops standing beside “fetus pictures” to promote the pro-life movement. LOL.
joan,
if you respect life at all and fear the Lord at all you will stop mocking these pictures. When you make merry (serious or not) of Satan’s blood sacrifice you bring condemnation upon yourself for all of what it stands for. May Jesus Christ be with you long enough to open your eyes. I say that to you joan cause you have called yourself a Christian in the past. CC, that applys to you too; if you too consider yourself Christian that is.
I think it is good that they have this display at the church. And I would encourage that they brought displays like this to Christian churches throughout the world. At least until more than 50% of the public is willing to join together with us to put an end to it. There are a certain number that understand what abortion really is and are ok with it any way but they are in a very small minority. It is especially important to show to our Christian children so they really understand what abortion is and do not fall prey themselves or lead others to commit abortion.
Cc is surely a pagan. In fact, I think she’s one of the 500 women in the US who think they are reincarnated witches even though only 19 women died during the Salem witch trials. (Reincarnation always gives me a chuckle: everyone used to be a king or a witch, nobody was a farmer or a hedgehog!). Her apprentice, Joan, is a backsliding atheist. Lol! Jus’ kiddin’, ladies, right?
Thanks be to God for the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Poland’s Bishop Mering, Jill Stanek, and all who speak the Truth. Jesus is the Truth, satan is the father of lies.
We have shown such photos on the public streets, and my friend, Mark, said about these very young victims of abortion, “Their short lives have meaning.” Their deaths are shocking because they are human beings. Abortion is shocking because it is murder. These victims can still help all of us put an end to abortion, by witnessing the chilling reality of the murder of the very young members of our human family. The police once came to our public witness for life, and admitted that the phone call they were responding to was our showing of a victim of abortion. My friend Mark said, “Let us call on the abortionist, and ask her if this is a picture of a human being. If she says it is a human being, then we are showing the evil of the act of abortion, and it(abortion) should not be allowed. If she says it is not a human being, then how is it offensive.” The police insisted that we not display the photo, even though there is no ordinance against it. The photo was bad for business for the abortionist. But abortion is so bad for Babies it kills them, and who speaks up for that? Bishop Mering, Jill Stanek, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform do, praise be to God!
I don’t know why I’m so generous sometimes! How about you raise more funds for your campaigns of misinformation by lobbying legislators who waste good money on loonie-tunes stuff. Like the good burghers of Kentucky who have granted $43M in tax breaks and $11M in road improvements to ken ham so he can build another edifice of idiocy? There you go.
The pictures posted in Poland– and re-posted here and elsewhere by people who protest the “violence” of abortion– are extremely disturbing, but not for the purpose that they’re intended to be. Here’s the bottom line: if one truly objects to abortion and believes that it’s violent and inhumane, why would one contribute to the trafficking of photographs of this act that you feel is a crime against humanity? For example, I find rape to be a horrific offense and *because* I find it horrific I would never disrespect those that I feel are victims by posting pictures of what I believe is abhorrent violence perpetrated against them. Posting pictures of something that you claim to find repugnant and evil seems contradictory if not sadistic and slightly masturbatory; it appears that the very act you claim to be wholeheartedly against is actually something of an excitement for you.
Gird your loins amy, prepare to be verbally mutilated in 3…2…1…
“It’s always literally the same exact pictures on display at these things. You’d think they could get some fresh pics. These ones are getting pretty old.”
Agreed, Joan. And with people like you around in sufficient number, you may take heart that there will be an abundance of new material for you. But we’re changing that; so enjoy it while it lasts.
You’re a heartless anachronism. What is it, emotionally, in a proabort’s life experiences that leads to such callousness?
amy
This is in response to your 9:22 post:
I think it’s called evidence kind of like what prosecutors do when they bring evidence of a criminals behavior. I completely understand your obvious compassion for victims of rape and I’m just assuming but I would imagine someone who understands the cruelness and violent nature of rape would surely extend the same degree of mercy to someone who has no ability to defend themselves as is the situation for the unborn. Because this is just my opinion but burning and/or tearing a pre-born apart and then discarding their bodies like they were trash I would think is at least as violent a crime as rape is. Pictures too much for you?
Amy – How about holocaust education. Pictures brought home the reality of the violence. Same with the Vietnam War and any war. Pictures from the earthquake in Japan and Katrina in the US helped make people aware of a disaster, and they responded by helping out, helping with social services, putting laws, practices and country-agreements and action to help stop a future atrocity (as in the response to WWII).
Pictures tell 1000 words, as they say. Seeing something, even if horrific, helps make it real – and then people respond. That is one reason why organizations who help poor children world-wide use pictures of children and their suffering to stir the heart and soul and to have people help out. Thankfully – pictures can make a world of difference in the right circumstances.
With abortion – it’s usually “out-of-sight, out-of-mind.” This gets the reality of abortion front and center, so people can do something about it.
Posting pictures of something that you claim to find repugnant and evil seems contradictory if not sadistic and slightly masturbatory; it appears that the very act you claim to be wholeheartedly against is actually something of an excitement for you.
Amy, Planned Parenthood isn’t spreading falsehoods about what rape is in order to deceive women into coming there to get raped. I know it may sound shocking to you but many of the adolescents today buy into the BS that it is just a clump of cells etc. If people were getting tricked into thinking rape is just like any other sexual experience and women were talked into going into planned parenthood to be raped then I suppose I’d also be for showing people what really happens when you get raped at planned parenthood.
Hey – for those doubting that ‘pictures’ make a difference – I just accompanied a young woman for an ultrasound. She was only 5 1/2 weeks along – and while the baby way clearly needing more development – that little heart was beating at 142 beats per minute.
Our local PP does abortions from 6-9 weeks, and used to do surgical abortions to 12 weeks. We have a local abortionist that performs abortions to 22 weeks (used to be 24 weeks).
Pictures are worth a 1000 words – and her pictures today, even when that young woman does not yet feel that child, that child is indeed there – growing, living and heart beating away. lovely, truly lovely.
;)
Right Amy.
And now explain that documentary evidence of Nazi death camps is slightly masturbatory. I’ll play along for a moment. We don’t post pictures of rape victims because it adds to the burden of the living victim. We post pictures of the murdered to illustrate that they have lost their very existence on this planet because of people like you.
Oh, Gerard. Don’t you know you’re not allowed to compare Nazi death camps to abortuaries here, per CC!? I mean, the Nazis killed so many human beings because the German government didn’t consider them humans worthy of life. That’s clearly nothing like abortion.
*smirk*
joan,
Yeah, “they” all look alike. Pesky babies. And they do have an unsettling color palatte. Wish that blood red wouldn’t manifest itself so much.
You’re a heartless anachronism. What is it, emotionally, in a proabort’s life experiences that leads to such callousness?
It’s a law of nature. Those who hate God, love death. Proverbs 8:36
ok as someone post abortive who saw her child, I have to say it.
First of all Joan, I don’t know your story but if you are pa and can be so callous I feel sorry for you. I don’t know what happened in your life but to make the comments you have made it must have been pretty awful. You are doing a lot of work to keep justifying by coming on this all the time. It is as if the comments get you going and keep your denial etc, in tact so you do not have to look at yourself.
I have mixed feelings about displaying these pictures, especially at a shrine. You may say it educates etc, but what about post abortive people who may be seeking healing and want to return to the church. This very well can turn them away. what about their souls? As much as there is judgment out there, God desires them to be reconciled and so do their children. I think the pictures definitely have a place in abortion education but I am not sure this is the place. I have prayed a lot about this. would God want us to display aborted babies? everyone quotes people who say yes, but they are not God. I am not sure and to be honest I probably never will be. People say it saves lives…does anyone know how many people they have lead to despair or away from God ? No, but I certainly know a few.
In any case I pray they have post abortion information and a big picture of the Divine Mercy near those pictures…there is more than one way to abort someone ..body yes, but also soul
my guess it the picture on the left is a baby in an intensive care unit for preemies and the aborted baby is about the same age as the preemie? I don’t read Polish so I am not sure.
There are those who still deny the holocaust happened just as there are those who deny that abortion takes the life of an innocent pre-born child.
There are almost 30 people in that picture, and though it’s hard to see, aren’t they supposed to have white socks on?
White socks? Why white socks, Doug?
Sigh… Oh Bobby, you’re just too young to understand! :p
I guess times have moved on. When I was a kid, in the 1960’s and 1970’s, there was some admittedly absurd notion that Polish people wore white socks. Where it originated, I have no idea. But, if you had white socks on, “you were a Polack.” No offense meant to anybody who’s Polish or of Polish derivation.
Amazing how this has faded. I searched for it online, and there isn’t much.
http://www.freakonomics.com/2007/02/22/polish-jokes-still-okay/
refers to it.
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the late 60s and early 70s. I am not of Polish ancestry. In my school, if you picked up a penny, you were a Polack. If you wore white socks, you were a Polack. So until I was nine or ten, I thought anybody could be a Polack.
I don’t know where these memes came from but I mentioned this to someone else who grew up near Chicago and he said the same was true in his school: white socks means Polack.
LOL, that’s pretty funny, Doug. I’ve never heard of that… if you are Polish, then you were white socks… strange. I don’t get the joke on your link either… I just don’t get things in general, though, so this shouldn’t be too surprising.
Kel, I forgot that CC doesn’t like comparing abortuaries to Nazi Death Camps. Could that moniker, CC, stand for Camp Commandant?
Theresa,
I share your thoughts about the appropriateness of placing the pictures near a shrine, and for all of the reasons you cite. My great hope is that there are also signs inviting men and women to reconciliation, and priests available throughout doing the same.
God Bless.
Theresa,
I understand totally what you are saying and I am hoping and praying that they have abortion recovery help and support available. Women that seek healing will find it.
I do believe that those photos serve a great purpose. Especially for those that simply do not know what abortion does to an innocent human being.
The perfect time and place for them? I am not as sure about that.
Gerard Nadal says: May 20, 2011 at 10:26 am
“Kel, I forgot that CC doesn’t like comparing abortuaries to Nazi Death Camps.
Could that moniker, CC, stand for Camp Commandant?”
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Girard,
Be careful you are treading on my turf and you are doing an exceedingly fine job.
I had given up trying to come up with new descriptors that begin in ‘C’.
I bow once again in deference to your mastery of the english language.
I have always been intrigued by the yarmalke that the Catholic Bishops wear.
Does anyone know the origins of this tradition?
Hey Ken.
It’s actually called a zucchetto and this article from teh Catholic encyclopedia gives a little bit on info on its history http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15765b.htm
Still waiting on “pro-choice Catholics” in the states to be ex-communicated. I won’t hold my breath.
“Still waiting on “pro-choice Catholics” in the states to be ex-communicated. I won’t hold my breath.”
I’m not holding my breath on the “pro torture Catholics” either.
Abortion: SEE IT. END IT.
Go to this link to see what abortion pictures can do for SAVING Women and Children
http://www.fletcherarmstrongblog.com
Theresa- Many women and men are in denial and tragically are not pursuing the help of post abortive ministries. By exposing the evil of abortion thru GAP (Genocide Awareness Project) it makes denial much more difficult and can/will lead some to admit personal responsibility for their wrong doing and repent of it and in return receive forgiveness and find healing.
Bobby: It’s actually called a zucchetto
I mitre not have known that answer…..
Bobby,
Thanks for the info.
Hal, you sound disappointed in the catholics. I know you have assisted in commiting multiple abortions on your own wife and children though so I don’t think you have any moral standing of your own when it comes to torture.
So Ken. Were you raised a secular, Hassidic, Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform Jew? Were your parents alive at the time of your conversion to Christianity and if so, how did they feel about it? I find your situation interesting as of the many Jews with whom I am acquainted, none of them have embraced Christianity and none of them are “pro-life.” As an ethnic Jew, how do you feel about the overwhelming support, from the American Jewish community, for a pro-choice position?
Joan said” It’s always literally the same exact pictures on display at these things. You’d think they could get some fresh pics. These ones are getting pretty old.”
Ya I know, just like those pics of Abu Graib! Boooring. And those famous pics of little Cambodian children with bloated bellies because they are slowly starving. Old! Why can’t we get more pics of those?! Oh ya and that one famous pic of that poor mom who died after her illegal abortion where she’s bleeding crumpled up on the floor…….Get new pics already!
CC, I am also of Jewish descent on my father’s side and we are both pro-life.
Kris miller, quoting Joan: “It’s always literally the same exact pictures on display at these things. You’d think they could get some fresh pics. These ones are getting pretty old.”
Kris: Ya I know, just like those pics of Abu Graib! Boooring. And those famous pics of little Cambodian children with bloated bellies because they are slowly starving. Old! Why can’t we get more pics of those?! Oh ya and that one famous pic of that poor mom who died after her illegal abortion where she’s bleeding crumpled up on the floor…….Get new pics already!
Hey Kris. I hear you – but there is a big difference, and yeah – it matters if one thinks it makes a difference – the victims of the Nazis, some Abu Ghraib prisoners, the Cambodian kids, etc., undeniably suffered. Some of us, me included, look at suffering as a fairly primary thing. While I do think that some Abu Ghraib detainees were not treated fairly, that is after the fact. In general, what is a “big target” entity like the US to do, if not to try and reduce threats against it, as with imprisoning people whom are documented as posing very possible threats against us?
That’s really a separate deal from the abortion debate, and while the jury is out on exactly where the fetus develops the ability to suffer, it’s obviously another stage in their existence despite some undecipherable and usually improbable statements from the pro-life crowd.
Agreed that there is debate over when the unborn can suffer. Yet, is there argument that to a point in gestation, the unborn can’t suffer?
Theseus
Why would you want to do that?
theseus,
Dont’t look now, but there’s a Minotaur behind you. Which is where your tiny excuse for a mind is, considering you don’ know how to spell “brain”.
“I mitre not have known that answer…..”
Oh, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :)
Theseus
I think you misspelled brain on purpose and hope you haven’t committed a crime yet. I hope whatever it is that has you troubled will somehow get better. God love you. myrtle