Pro-life photos of the week: Chalk and awe at home of abortionist
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The Los Angeles Times reported on August 7 there would be no charges filed against pro-life group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust after members wrote street and sidewalk messages with chalk around the home of abortionist Richard Agnew (pictured below right) of Newport Beach, California.
Actually, the threat of charges had nothing to do with accusations of vandalism. According to laist.com:
It was about reports of a fight that broke out between the protesters and residents. Agnew’s supporter and neighbor Paula Durnian, 59, and Survivors founder Jeff White, 56, citizen’s arrested each other, both accusing the other of being hostile. That case was dropped today, according to D.A. spokeswoman Farrah Emami, due to lack of evidence.
Ha, visions of Gomer Pyle come to mind. But I digress.
The Survivors reportedly chalked such messages as, “Agnew Kills Babies,” “Abortion is murder,” and “Your neighbor is a monster.”
While neighbors wanted vandalism charges pressed against the Survivors, that hasn’t happened. White says go ahead, make their day, the Survivors are merely exercising their First Amendment right to free speech:
“Do they really want to get into a $50,000 to $100,000 lawsuit?” White said. “Because we would sue over the sidewalk chalk.”
[Top photo via Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust’s Facebook page; photo of Agnew via yelp.com; bottom photo via LA Times]
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’t even count the number of times that someone said on the Jackson Miss. threads that conflicts with pro-lifers could turn without warning into head-stomping, skull-cracking fights. So I guess the residents of Newport Beach are lucky the protesters didn’t turn violent.
LisaC, so you’re sure a pro-lifer initiated the altercation? Wow, you’re so much more clairvoyant than the police.
LisaC,
That someone was you. I said confrontational situations can be dangerous and lead to serious injury. You were the one to blow it out of proportion.
I maintain that confrontational situations can become dangerous. That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t exercise their right to free expression. It just means that people should let the police do their job and the police should do their job.
Eh another creepy looking abortionist. I think its wonderful and I love what they wrote!
Thanks for the memories: Several decades ago our fledgling pro-life group did a chalk-protest at our local doctors’ offices. We had in our gang though, a quasi-artist, who talked about the bombing at Hiroshima, Japan. When the bomb went off, the people evaporated so quickly that only a outline remained to tell of their existence. So, she drew (in chalk) empty people outlines.
The particular chalkings were mean and more likely to deeply entrench the abortionist and cause his neighbors to rally around him and become deaf to the prolife message.
If you want to chalk, make the messages something thought-provoking rather than nasty. Say,
“Is it really helping a woman to take her money and her baby?”
“Do you ever wonder if you really helped her?”
“Provide non-violent options to pregnant women.”
“Is abortion what you dreamed of when you started medical school?”
“Do you ever do follow-up to find out if she really IS better off without her baby?”
You can BET that if a registered sex offender or child molester attempted to take up residence on this “conservative Orange County” street, the nieghbors would kick up a fuss the likes of which you’ve never seen.
But an abortionist ? NO big deal.
I think both messages are needful. These serial killers have consciences that are so calloused, they to be pricked with sharp, penetrating, bold statements of truth. Clear unambiguous messages that sting and burn to try to elicit some empathy and emotion back into their hardened black hearts. Words that stick with them when they’re lying on their beds at night or when they wake up from a nightmare seeing all the dead babies they’ve killed.
At the same time they need compassionate voices of reason as you suggest Christina. Just like Abby Johnson needed someone kind and supportive to talk to when the light went on in her heart and she realized she worked at a human baby chop shop.
The important thing is that Pro-life stalwarts continue to shine a bright light on these cockroaches and their evil deeds. We must hope and pray that they will find the mercy and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ upon which we all desperately rely.
That someone was you. I said confrontational situations can be dangerous and lead to serious injury. You were the one to blow it out of proportion.
All I did was take your warnings about violence seriously after you repeated them forty or fifty times.
LisaC,
You seem to have as much trouble counting as you do keeping your facts sraight.
I recall I made the comment about the possibility of confrontation and its danger when you and another poster took what I said, and it was nothing about “head stomping, skull cracking fights”, and ran with it, blowing it out of proportion.
IYou seem to have as much trouble counting as you do keeping your facts sraight
I counted, and I stand corrected: you only said that the situation could have turned violent eleven or twelve times. Believe me, it felt like forty or fifty.
RE: the Jackson thread: Ironically, I was the only person on the thread who took seriously the possibility that Jill was telling the truth when she claimed that there had been a past legal settlement between pro-lifers and the Jackson police. And credit where credit is due: she was, in that one instance, being honest.
LisaC,
Well I’m glad to see you can count and I hope you also noticed that I had to explain to you and another poster repeatedly how confrontational situations can be dangerous.
Personally, I thought it was a no brainer but apparently not.
Settlement or not, police are supposed to do their jobs.
I had to explain to you and another poster repeatedly how confrontational situations can be dangerous.
You didn’t have to. You just apparently liked typing it. Oddly enough, the thought seems never to have crossed your mind until it was pointed out that the prolifers were legally in the wrong.
Personally, I think that although confrontations can be dangerous, the individuals in question seemed unlikely to become violent. But I guess you disagree.
LisaC,
It was necessary to continue repeating it as you and the other poster were a little slow to catch on, you know, like you’re rambling about “head stomping” and “skull cracking”.
I did not defend the PLs actions, but stated whether they were right or wrong the police had a responsibility to act.
Another no brainer, or so I thought, but still people had difficulty grasping this concept, as that thread went on forever.
I never would assume that confrontational situations will remain non violent and I advise you never make the mistake of thinking people incapable of violence. Assumptions like that get people injured or killed. That’s why police and self defense experts will advise you to NEVER get into confrontations, to always let the police handle it.
It was necessary to continue repeating it
Not really.
like you’re rambling about “head stomping” and “skull cracking”.
If by me rambling you mean you rambling, sure. Observe your post of 7/22, in which you announced “someone can be lying on the ground with a fractured skull before police even know something happened. I’ve seen brain death from a few seconds of a boot stomping someone’s head, over some trivial matter.” So let’s not kid ourselves about who started in with the head stomping shtick.
I advise you never make the mistake of thinking people incapable of violence.
I said I thought them unlikely to become violent, which pertains to their will to commit violence and is unrelated to their capacity to do so.
Do your employers know about your short-term memory and reading comprehension problems?
LisaC,
LOL.
What I was pointing out was that violence can erupt very unexpectedly and quickly, and for these reasons confrontations must be avoided and police should not stand around and do nothing. I even pointed out an article in our local paper how a teenage girl got her skull cracked with a brick over what police described as a “difference of opinion”. I’ve seen many a minor altercation turn deadly.
I hope I made it easier for you to understand.
I can’t quite make sense of your statement concerning the likelihood of violence, but I would again advise that you never involve yourself in a confrontational situation.
I have only one employer and apparently they are comfortable with my taking people’s lives into my hands, which I do every time I work.
I hope I made it easier for you to understand.
Yes, pro-lifers should be treated at all times like violent powder kegs. Message received.
I can’t quite make sense of your statement concerning the likelihood of violence
Which word didn’t you understand?
LisaC,
LOL. Whatever LisaC. Try as I might to make it simple and explain again and again, it just isn’t going to register.
The entire sentence didn’t make much sense.