Pro-life video of the day: Face the Truth Tour 2012 starts today
by LauraLoo
Today starts the 2012 Face the Truth Tour by Chicago’s Pro-Life Action League.
Wrote organizer Eric Scheidler in an email yesterday:
On the Face the Truth Tour, League staff and volunteers take large posters of aborted babies out to major intersections to bring the ugly reality of abortion to the public.
This is a controversial campaign, and even many in the pro-life movement are uncomfortable with it.
To address that controversy and show why a campaign like this is needed, the League has put together a short, 2-minute video on Face the Truth:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UT5zSsHxA8[/youtube]
Continued Eric:
As the video shows, the League’s approach to showing these difficult pictures is peaceful, thoughtful and prayerful. And at the end of the day, I can tell you first hand these pictures save lives. That’s really what it’s all about.
Last summer a young couple came upon the Truth Tour in downtown Chicago. They had just found out about an untimely pregnancy and had been praying for a sign whether or not to get an abortion. Not only did the signs convince them to choose life for their baby, but the League’s staff got them plugged into a pro-life pregnancy center where they could get help.
Here’s the 2012 Face the Tour schedule. If you can’t make it to the Tour in person, please remember the League’s crew and all of their volunteers in your prayers from July 6 to 14.
Send your e-mail suggestions to dailyvid@jillstanek.com.
[HT: Jill]
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 wonder how many children on their way home with their parents will be having nightmares about your inaccurate and offensive signs? Do you not care for them? You guys are shock jocks like Howard Stern. Who cares what damage you do as long as you get your nonsense out into the public…
Here is a news flash for you people… We KNOW what an abortion is and what it looks like and we still think it is every woman’s protected right to make her own decision with her doctor without being accosted, shamed, or vaginally violated by your own personal belief system. Those pictures were not even taken in the USA… can you imagine what a picture of an open heart surgery done in Ethiopia would look like? Just a nasty as your pictures of 3rd world late term abortions performed in mud huts.
You are hurting your own movement with this stuff and turning other people children into mental collateral damage in the process… This is why people are physically assaulting you, because you are visually assaulting them…
BTW I am not condoning violence by anyone against anyone else. Enough people have already been murdered because of this debate.
You KNOW that abortion dismembers a tiny innocent human being and you are FINE with it??!! That sounds a bit psycho to those that are rational and know killing when they see it.
We KNOW that YOU KNOW that! We are appealing to those with a conscience Biggz.
You are correct!!! Billions and billions of preborn people have been murdered legally and you CONDONE the violence of it!
ENOUGH ALREADY!!
Please link to the real, authenticated photos that you have of what a baby looks like after they are aborted.
Thanks.
PS
Abortion is a vaginal violation dude.
Yep, Biggz knows what an abortion looks like, giving it the seal of approval of allowing those children to become those horrible pictures. Yeesh!
And no, we are NOTHING like Howard Stern.
I wonder how many children on their way home with their parents will be having nightmares about your inaccurate and offensive signs?
Probably not as many as the number of children having nightmares over Time magazine’s August 2010 cover. Graphic images are frequently used in the media, where children can easily see them.
Why would the signs be offensive? They don’t have any disparaging language on them. All I saw was cutting through a popular euphemism and graphically displaying images of what you would consider an ordinary surgical procedure. I wouldn’t be offended if someone showed images of open heart surgery, and I highly doubt it would incite the same reaction as pictures of abortion.
Do you not care for them?
I do. But I care more about children becoming the images than about children seeing the images. But I can see why you might be really, really worried about the latter:
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/09/fighting-for-life
You guys are shock jocks like Howard Stern.
This is a false analogy. Not everyone who uses potentially shocking images is a shock jock. If that were the case, then Emmett Till’s mother and other civil rights activists were also “shock jocks like Howard Stern”. The sword cuts the other way too, as Howard Stern supports legal abortion. But I know better than to claim that abortion proponents are “shock jocks like Howard Stern”.
Who cares what damage you do as long as you get your nonsense out into the public…
Since when is human equality nonsensical?
Here is a news flash for you people… We KNOW what an abortion is and what it looks like
Really? Then why do some people still change their minds when they find out what an abortion is and what it looks like?
http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/blog/2012/07/06/cracking-abortion-consensus-changing-hearts-and-minds-new-abortion-caravan-part-iii
and we still think it is every woman’s protected right to make her own decision with her doctor
What kind of decision? If it kills a human being, it’s wrong even if she decided with her doctor. Not all choices are equal.
without being accosted, shamed, or vaginally violated
Gentle sidewalk counseling is not accostment. Abortion proponents don’t seem to have much of a problem shaming people that disagree with them. They repeat ad nauseum to pro-life advocates that abortion is a difficult decision (with numerous heart wrenching stories to back them up, but without ever explaining why) in order to discourage them from defending their position. They then turn around and compare the same decision to buying Viagra (in order to attack clinic regulations).
Pro-lifers don’t vaginally violate women. Only abortion clinics insert objects into the vagina:
https://www.jillstanek.com/2012/03/the-feminists-who-cried-rape/
by your own personal belief system.
Isn’t rejecting infanticide (or supporting abortion as a woman’s right) also based on a certain belief system? Why should yours be made into law? Why should it be legal to kill some humans (and not others)?
Those pictures were not even taken in the USA
{{citation needed}}
Why would this matter even if it were true?
can you imagine what a picture of an open heart surgery done in Ethiopia would look like?
I’m sure it wouldn’t be a pretty sight, but it wouldn’t look like a human violently killed (which is what those images clearly show).
Just a nasty as your pictures of 3rd world late term abortions performed in mud huts.
{{citation needed}}
Would pictures of abortions done in 1st world countries in reproductive health centres be any less gruesome? If you don’t like the images in the video above, are these accurate enough for you?
http://abortionno.org/index.php/abortion_pictures/
http://abortionno.org/index.php/abortion_pictures/verifying_photograph_authenticity/
You are hurting your own movement with this stuff and turning other people children into mental collateral damage in the process…
{{citation needed}}
This is why people are physically assaulting you, because you are visually assaulting them…
You know there’s more to it than that. It’s more likely because the physical assailants have a guilty conscience, or because they can’t handle the truth about what they’re supporting so they have to silence it. People don’t beat up seniors because they’re showing images that happen to be hard on the eyes.
BTW I am not condoning violence by anyone against anyone else. Enough people have already been murdered because of this debate.
I’m glad to hear that, and I agree. Why don’t the 50 million people killed before they were born matter? Why must more die?
Biggz-Maybe if you could see some live-video of the fetus struggling to live you’d understand the imperative of displaying the base reality of the barbaric outrage that abortion so blatantly is.
These are the still shots, but if you could see massacre on videotape you would not be able to deny that the baby is not only being murdered but a human fetus is being tortured to death.
Remember, if you were born before 1973, then there was a time in your life that these pro-life activists were defending your body from the killing tools in the abortuary.
One day that picture of the babies head will be in history books. As will be the photo of these abolitionists holding those pictures by the freeway. Which side will history be on? the right to life-or the right to “choice?”
I heart Navi.
If photos of innocent human beings killed in abortions are too horrible to look at perhaps we shouldn’t be condoning the horrible act of abortion.
If pwning trolls was an Olympic sport, Navi would have more gold than Fort Knox.
Is the end result of a non-third world abortion in a sterile environment somehow different (prettier? Easier on the eyes? Less like killing?) than the end result of a third world abortion done in a “mud hut”?
Amazing.
In most places they cannot stand on the medians, so hopefully they will have to obey the law and off them.
If not, they should be arrested and spend time in jail.
Biggz, 4:19 — “This is why people are physically assaulting you, because you are visually assaulting them…”
Biggz, 4:30 — “BTW I am not condoning violence by anyone against anyone else.”
Why am I not surprised that the disclaimer was an 11 minute afterthought.
And why am I not surprised that visual “assault” (because, of course, pro-lifers are doing this kind of thing to people) is deemed a sufficient explanation for physical assault.
“I just can’t help m’self! My eyeballs saw somethin’ so I popped ‘im a couple times!”
Anyone at all normal would tell someone like that, “get help.” But when it’s pro-choicers who can’t control their anger, it’s more like “We understand how that behavior follows naturally from your visual experience.”
Good grief.
Actually, though, few such pictures were supplied by pro-lifers. Most, I believe, were taken by abortionists or their staff. So here’s a theory consistent with this allegation that visual causes have physical effects (assaulting others): How about when pro-life people are provoked by seeing images supplied by abortionists, they’re compelled to share the images with the world so that everyone will know what’s going on? Why would not the abortionists’ supply of such images be a sufficient explanation for the pro-lifer’s actions?
One difference: The sharing of such images is speech, protected by the first amendment. Physical assault is not. It’s a crime.
Pete: “Catholics let pedophiles be reassigned in their parishes.”
So do public schools. Such abuse seems to happen frequently in the public schools.
I can’t wait to hear tell of your remarks at the next PTA meeting.
And thank you so much to Edwin, who offers helpful civic-minded concern for standing on the median strips — apparently as a counterbalance to pro-life outrage at over 50 million lives snuffed out in the U.S. alone since Roe. The sense of proportion is a sight to behold, Edwin. You’re the best!
That is the photo that made me pro-life. I don’t know how anybody can see that photo of a baby’s severed head and think “I know what that is and I’m still FINE with it.” Really scary all that there are folks like Biggz out there who JUST DON’T CARE. They’ll justify killing someone else if it suits them. Sick, sick, sick.
Oh and Pete? Take your complaint to the “I hate Catholic priests” website. This isn’t the place. And your whiny comment has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.
You know a troll has nothing to add to the conversation when they resort to Catholic bashing.
The word “resort” implies that failing elsewhere, they fall back to something. That’s not what trolls do, though. They start out there.
And, to be sure, end there.
Carla says:
July 6, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Please link to the real, authenticated photos that you have of what a baby looks like after they are aborted.
Thanks.
(Denise) I previously put up a link to a fetus only 5 weeks along. It hasn’t really “formed” but it would still look ugly torn apart.
You are hurting your own movement with this stuff and turning other people children into mental collateral damage in the process…
If it was hurting our own movement, you sure in the heck wouldn’t be informing us of it…
So thanks for letting us know what is working.
The only reason those that are proabortion get worked up over the graphic photos of babies killed in abortion is because they are effective.
Which brings us back to
What is abortion?
What does it do to a preborn human child?
Is that a human head in the photo? With human blood? Did his human heart stop beating? Was his human head torn from his human body?
Why is their anger always misdirected at those holding the signs and NOT to the perpetrator of the violence depicted? (the abortionist)
Why is their argument and anger deflected to what children might see or supposed harm they might bring to post abortive women and men?
If these are “fake” why are they not producing the real, authenticated photos of a baby after being aborted?
And the trolls also like to seem to use multiple names (also against the rules of this board).
Deeee-leted.
Pete and Edwin are the same troll.
Carla, I’m waiting with you for the answers and pictures.
Popcorn?
As a post abortive woman, I SAW my dead baby from my abortion. Make no doubt, these graphic pictures are real!
Yes popcorn please. :)
Denise,
You realize you didn’t address my question right?
Carla, while we munch on popcorn, can I tell you about the interesting encounter I just had with our university’s Women’s Studies professor?? LOL! She just came in the library to check out some items and was wearing a tshirt that said, “Abortion Laws Hurt Women.”
I remained professional and I kept the superglue pocketed. Next time it will not be that pleasant!
“Abortion Laws Hurt Women.”
I think I know what she means. After all, many women have been killed or injured by abortions allowed by the law.
Yawn…little z weighs in with his typical willful ignorance about abortion. Has anyone figured out why trolls are attracted to a prolife site? Is it that they are searching, or is it that they are just pathetic, mean spirited people?
Jerry,
I don’t know. While cockroaches scurry around in a panic in the Light, most bugs are attracted to it. Oh, wait. We were talking about trolls, weren’t we? Well, same thing, I guess.
I am disabled – some would say ‘seriously’. It is in this role that I have got to know a few ‘quads’ in the past few decades. I think there are important similarities between these ‘quads’ and 1st trimester babies.
Both have non-functioning nervous systems (One’s is non-existant, yet!). And both have an extreme common dependency to keep-on-living. Yet nobody would say these folks are non-human. [There are a few trying to separate people from their Rights.]