Black Friday Pro-Life Drop Card Project
Abolish Human Abortion is promoting a great idea, which I’m dubbing the Black Friday Pro-Life Drop Card Project:
Drop Cards are currently on Sale for $1.50 a pack for “Black Friday.”
By this we do not mean that this is a “Black Friday Sale.” We mean, buy lots of drop cards for cheap so that you can go drop them on Black Friday.
Them malls and shopping centers will be super busy seeding grounds come this “thanksgiving” and “holiday season.”
Please go buy some cards so that we can get them to you in time for you to drop them on Black Friday.
Totally agree.
Other groups selling drop cards are Created Equal and Stand True.
I always carry drop cards in my wallet. There are very creative places to place them. This is one of those little things I look forward to finding out in Heaven what good they did and where.
Order your cards today! There’s not much time. Black Friday is a perfect day to organize a pro-life project like this.
UPDATE, 12:10p: I’ve just learned a little more about pro-life activism on Black Friday and thought I’d pass the information it along. In 2005, the Pro-Life Action League protested the American Girl Store in Chicago over ties to a pro-abortion group, which they severed. Other groups have done Truth Tour displays with abortion victim photos at shopping malls on Black Friday. Also worth noting is that the concept of subversive literature drops was promoted in chapters 21 and 61 of Joe Scheidler’s book, CLOSED: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion.
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.
The drop cards may be great, but this group will never have my support. Their expressed attitude toward Catholics and the Church is ridiculous and bigoted. They seem adept at sowing division and conflict.
Jennifer, I know some pro-lifers have problems with AHA. They did have a good idea, however, and I’m focusing on that. I also included drop card options of other groups. :)
I also no longer really like AHA but I have their drop cards. Because they are great drop cards that really get someone to THINK and because AHA does share the gospel on their site I still use them. Once they’re gone though I doubt I will buy more from them.
Drop cards are a great way to spread the pro-life message! I’ve already heard of babies being saved because their abortion minded mothers found them. I place drop cards in front of Plan B at the pharmacy and I put drop cards in the pockets of clothes at the mall. Drop cards in the bathroom stalls of restaurants, drop cards in the ATM slot at the gas station etc…
It is a non-confrontational way to be pro-life and get the message out that life begins at conception. Everyone can do it! My 8 year old even helps me scope clever places to leave them.
Drop cards are a great idea.
Please do not purchase any from AHA.
It only gives them more resources with which to attack post-abortive women and the Catholic Church.
I am not Catholic, but I have witnessed their attacks on the Church.
I am post-abortive, and I have been personally attacked by multiple AHA members, including their leaders.
Laura,
How were you attacked by “AHA Leaders?” Please describe this attack for me.
Sydney,
What is it about AHA that you do not like? It seems you like the message, the Gospel centerdness, etc. What specifically do you not like about the Abolitionist Movement?
Jennifer,
Our expressed ideas against CatholicISM should not offend anyone, nor should they surprise anyone. However, it is a false claim to say that we are against Catholics. Was Jesus against Pharisees because He spoke out against their false traditions? Was Paul against the Epicureans and Stoics on Mars Hill because he spoke the truth in the face of their false beliefs? For that matter was Paul against the Corinthians because he sharply corrected their bad theology and sinful practices? Can someone be against an idea without necessarily being against the person who holds or promotes those ideas?
Thanks for sharing the drop card promotion Jill.
Where ever criticism of AHA happens, the AHA people show up.
There’s always been condemnation of various pro-life organization for the past several years. You don’t see them showing up to whine about it.
What a thin-skinned group that is.
Toby, I do not like that AHA attacks the efforts of other pro-lifers. I do not like the sanctimonious manner in which AHA members interact with other pro-lifers. I do not like the downright nasty AHA folks I have encountered throughout the past year or two.
I believe the gospel can change our world. I believe God wants to use us. I believe God abhors abortion. I agree with a lot of things AHA believes and says but I would say my number one beef with AHA folks is the fleshly, nasty way they say and do things. I have no problem calling sin, sin. I do think that just because AHA folks disagree with others on things not spelled out biblically does not mean they have to be so hard-hearted, heavy-handed and prideful. They have been really mean at times.
Toby, your response has proven my point. You know not what you speak about Catholicism or the Church. You think you know, and you are quite pleased to display your superior Christianity, but you are mistaken. Yet nothing I say will persuade you; I know that.
It’s a pity that AHA sows so much division and bad will among the pro-life community. You have placed your own agenda, your own opinions, and your own methods high above the true prize, which is protecting the child in the womb. That is very sad.
I have many drop cards from different groups and routinely leave them places. This summer I started attaching a pregnancy resource information card to the back of home pregnancy tests.
I think the dropcards are a wonderful idea that can bear great fruit.
That being said, I’m sad to see how the “last acceptable prejudice” plays out with fellow prolife Christians. If a group routinely spouted off against the ECLA or Methodists or a famous pastor of a mega church or some other group of Christians, would their materials be promoted or taken seriously?
I’m a little tired of anti-Catholic ignorance, but heh we’ve dealt with it for about 2,000 years. Praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever! He sustains us.
Besides, it’s not the aha that will judge believers for the atrocity of abortion. God knows, and even aha has to know, that Catholics make the strongest showing on the front lines in the fight against abortion, here and throughout the world. And that’s thanks to God’s grace and authoritative teaching from His Church.
I love the idea of pro-life drop cards on the busiest shopping day of the year & while I don’t care for the negative attitude of Abolish Human Abortion the drop cards do have messages that are ment to get you thinking deeper about the issue.
Earlier this year I made up drop cards with hotline numbers & resources/support for those facing an unplanned pregnancy & started placing them along side pregnancy tests at the stores as well as posting them on community bulletin boards. I think I’ll print off some more of those cards & distribute them alongside the pro-life drop cards (figurtively speaking) sometime this week.
Toby, every time I state this, it turns into the same dance. I tell how I was attacked, and you/AHA end by demanding screen shots to “prove it”. Short cut to the end: sue me for defamation and I will be more than happy to give a deposition including those screen shots.
But, for the sake of this thread, I’ll go on record again.
AHA called me an unforgiven murderer and a slut. Whore came up too.
AHA demanded that I repent directly to them before they would judge whether my repentance was “good enough”, and whether I really could be forgiven.
AHA was infuriated that I would not comply, and judged me still unforgiven and somehow that I support abortion because I won’t repent to them.
A couple years ago I bought a bunch of blank envelope labels. Then I printed out some of my favorite prolife website addresses on them. I stuck them in public restroom stalls and near hand dryers/paper dispensers.
They peel off real easy so they are not destructive to property. Don’t put them on paper products though like books or magazines.
I get really, really steamed when I hear about women being called such vile names.
Here are some more great ideas for drop cards, both of which link to additional extended online resources.
The 180 movie: http://store.livingwaters.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=665&category_id=11&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=199&lang=en
Our AbortionPillBaby.com cards:
http://abortionpillbaby.com/node/5
(The fetal development side of the card is appropriate for any setting, while the flip side is best used near a location where women obtain abortion pills.)
Also we have made two-side drop cards to promote our Pastors Pro-Life Resource Center (pastorsprolife.org) and the Dear Pastor video. These cards might be effectively “dropped” in an offering plate of a pastor who is silent (or not vocal enough) on abortion.
Sydney,
//I do not like that AHA attacks the efforts of other pro-lifers.//
We attack their ideas which are bad and unbiblical. Sometimes the people that the ideas are connected to are exposed for holding those ideas. But if I came publicly said something like “we should fight abortion through violent action” or some other ungodly means, then you would be right to “attack” my idea and strategy and it wouldn’t be an attack on me if you didn’t hesitate to say “Toby Harmon said such and such and that is a horrible and ungodly method.”
//I do not like the sanctimonious manner in which AHA members interact with other pro-lifers. I do not like the downright nasty AHA folks I have encountered throughout the past year or two.//
1) AHA does not have members. AHA is an ideology that individual Abolitionist’s adopt and put into practice. Just like Christianity does not have members. It has adherents to the worldview that it is.
2) It would make no sense to say “I don’t like the way some Christians interact with unbelievers, and I do not like the downright nasty Christians I have encountered throughout the past year or two, therefore I reject Christianity.”
// I would say my number one beef with AHA folks is the fleshly, nasty way they say and do things.//
When Abolitionists are fleshly and nasty you should speak with them brother to brother and show them their sin. I just reacted fleshly to this blog and to Jill about an hour ago, Jill pointed it out, and I asked her for forgiveness. Sometimes Abolitionists are fleshly and sinful. When we are we should repent of that when confronted and/or convicted about it.
//I have no problem calling sin, sin. I do think that just because AHA folks disagree with others on things not spelled out biblically does not mean they have to be so hard-hearted, heavy-handed and prideful. They have been really mean at times.//
The things we disagree on with pro-lifers are very fundamentally biblical things and are very critical in being faithful to God and towards the overall Abolition of Human Abortion. Unbelievers accuse believers of being prideful all the time, simply because we think we are right about the Christian worldview. But that doesn’t mean we are being prideful. When we are prideful or hard-hearted then we should repent. But not everything that one observes (as pride or hard heartedness) from Abolitionists or the main AHA page is done in pride or hard heartedness. But regardless Abolitionists should be willing to always examine themselves and seek to reason and persuade others in a spirit of love and patience towards those who need persuading and those they disagree with. Thank you for your response Sydney.
Laura,
//Toby, every time I state this, it turns into the same dance. I tell how I was attacked, and you/AHA end by demanding screen shots to “prove it”.//
I am not AHA. AHA is not anybody. AHA is an ideology. AHA as an ideology may attack your ideology simply by it’s definition and the definition of your ideology, but that is nothing to take personally.
//Short cut to the end: sue me for defamation and I will be more than happy to give a deposition including those screen shots.//
Why not just post them now? If some Abolitionist has sinned against you, take it up with them personally, but don’t attack an entire movement of people. Challenge the ideology if you want, but don’t dismiss the ideas out of pocket simply because you feel you have been treated badly by individual Abolitionists (whether you have or not I do not know). I would love to help explain any comments and admin of the page might have posted in reply to you that you felt were an attack on you personally. As for some Abolitionist somewhere in internet land I cannot speak for them.
//But, for the sake of this thread, I’ll go on record again.
AHA called me an unforgiven murderer and a slut. Whore came up too.//
AHA can’t call you anything, it is an ideology. If you mean that an amdin. of the AHA page called you that, well, I would have to say straight up that you are downright lying. If you have a screencap to prove otherwise, please provide it and we would love to get to the bottom of that and rebuke whichever admin said it and take away their admining privaleges. Someone may have put forth the idea that you might be unforgiven for some reason for a past abortion, but I am positive that an admin did not call you a slut or a whore. And if some individual Abolitionist did somewhere at some time then they should be rebuked, but should also not be seen as representative of the ideology and overall movement that is AHA.
//AHA demanded that I repent directly to them before they would judge whether my repentance was “good enough”, and whether I really could be forgiven. AHA was infuriated that I would not comply, and judged me still unforgiven and somehow that I support abortion because I won’t repent to them.//
Again, please provide evidence of this. I highly doubt this is true as not a single admin of the page (all whom I interact with daily believes such a thing).
Mary Ann,
//I’m a little tired of anti-Catholic ignorance, but heh we’ve dealt with it for about 2,000 years. Praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever! He sustains us.//
Abolitionists are not anti-Catholic, they are anti-CatholicISM. No more than you are anti-Mormon because you think Mormonism is a false religious system. Also please remember that it is Catholics who anathematized Protestants and the Council of Trent.
//Besides, it’s not the aha that will judge believers for the atrocity of abortion.//
“The aha” has never claimed this. Abolitionists call sin sin, recognize and criticize unbiblical ideas and false religious systems. Those things are entirely biblical and within the realm of Christian orthopraxy.
//God knows, and even aha has to know, that Catholics make the strongest showing on the front lines in the fight against abortion,//
I agree completely, and this is to the shame of God’s true Bride. Being the main group on the frontlines does not necessarily mean that your religious system is biblical or unbiblical in it’s teachings. If Islam had been the frontliners in the fight against abortion, that would not all of a sudden necessitate that their religion is true.
Jennifer,
//Yet nothing I say will persuade you; I know that.//
You haven’t even tried to persuade me.
//It’s a pity that AHA sows so much division and bad will among the pro-life community.//
We are not a part of the Pro-life community and we do not sow division, we expose division that is already there. For instance, if I was talking to Muslim that agreed with me that adultery was sin and then I began talking about Jesus as the Son of God who is the only means for forgiveness of adultery and then the Muslim man and myself began having a disagreement about this, that would not be me sowing division among anti-adultery people. It would be two people who were already divided discussing adultery. This is how it is with Abolitionist and pro-lifers.
//You have placed your own agenda, your own opinions, and your own methods high above the true prize, which is protecting the child in the womb. That is very sad.//
This is an example of one of the divisions between pro-lifers and Abolitionists that lurks just beneath the surface under a veneer of false peace. We don’t think that ultimate prize is saving babies. The ultimate prize is hearing from our Lord and Savior “well done good and faithful servant” for doing things faithfully to God and His standard. The ultimate reward is that God is glorified and souls are brought into His Kingdom (by which He is also glorified). You see, we are not united in our fight against abortion because we begin with two fundamentally different questions which lead us to two very different answers and methods. We are not content with covering over this division with a false peace, we aim to expose it and get people thinking rightly about sin and the Gospel.
Toby,
That’s pretty slick, and it’s very smug of you. To claim that you (AHA) and you alone, seek to expose evil and get people rightly thinking about sin and the Gospel, and that’s really your true prize, while the rest of the pro-life community just wants to stop killing babies under some false pretense of peace?
There are people of no faith at all who still agree that killing the child in the womb is wrong and must be stopped. That counts for a great deal. It’s a valuable starting point that we should not disparage. It’s not a false peace.
I did not try to persuade you because I know it would be wasted breath. You believe yourself and AHA to be the true arbiters of Divine truth and the Gospel, and the only pure soldiers of Christianity. That arrogance oozes out of every word you speak (or write in this case).
You say your opposition is to CatholicISM, but you have no idea what Catholicism is, means, or actually teaches and believes. You think you know, but you are wildly mistaken. You think your motives are kind and pure, but there is so much hatred and fear in your words and attitude. It will not be me who persuades you otherwise.
I wish you peace, Toby, and nothing other than God’s perfect and holy will. Soli Deo Gloria!
(Jill, if you’re seeing this, I would humbly ask you to reconsider your support of AHA. The drop cards are hardly worth the hostility and division stirred up by Toby and AHA. It is your site and your call, but as someone who admires your courage and your honesty, I’d ask you to prayerfully reconsider. The Catholic Church may very well be the last one standing to defend the sanctity of all human life.)