I love hanging around with pro-lifers who don't take crap. Posted on 03/12/2010 8:54:20 AM PST by mlizzy
I love hanging around with pro-lifers who don't take crap.
Gregg Cunningham, executive director of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, is 1 of those.
If you're blessed to be a friend or colleague of Gregg's, he blind copies you on emails he writes to detractors and opponents of CBR's work. Gregg's wit always cracks me up, and his chutzpah always inspires me.
Yesterday Gregg copied me on an email he sent to Pam Cysner, Student Affairs Officer at UCLA.
The administration at UCLA has been jerking CBR's student co-sponsors around for a year trying to keep CBR from reserving space for a huge Genocide Awareness Project abortion photo display on Bruin Plaza....
(I'm sprinkling photos of other such GAP displays at various college campuses throughout this post. Click all to enlarge.)
I asked Gregg if I could post excerpts of his shock and awe letter to Cysner, and he said yes. I should mention Gregg is an attorney. Now this is hardball...
From: Gregg Cunningham [mailto:gregg@cbrinfo.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:26 PM To: pcysner@saonet.ucla.edu Cc: ablum@conet.ucla.edu; glen.fichman@capnet.ucla.edu; pjasper@conet.ucla.edu; Gary McCaleb; mcohn@saonet.ucla.edu; alvaroday@ucla.edu Subject: Genocide Awareness Project Plaza Reservation
Dear Ms. Cysner,
I direct The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR), the 501(c)3 organization which has, for approximately one year, been seeking to conduct, in conjunction with our UCLA student associates, constitutionally protected expressive activity on Bruin Plaza....
I just want to forewarn you that if this long-running and totally unreasonable reservations obstruction is not ended in the next few days, our organization will turn this matter over to our lawyers with instructions to prepare a First Amendment lawsuit against UCLA ...
(Excerpt) Read more at jillstanek.com ...
UCLA is ACLU, sideways.
Peace? This is war!
I hate to nit pick, but Chutzpah is not an admirable trait.
Well played.
SnakeDoc
>> I hate to nit pick, but Chutzpah is not an admirable trait.
Not that Wikipedia is the end-all-be-all of reference ... but ...
[From the Wikipedia entry on Chutzpah] “In Hebrew, chutzpah is used indignantly, to describe someone who has over-stepped the boundaries of accepted behavior with no shame. But in Yiddish and English, chutzpah has developed ambivalent and even positive connotations. Chutzpah can be used to express admiration for non-conformist but gutsy audacity.”
It appears to me that there is an interpretation of the term which carries an admirable connotation (a synonym for “audacity” ... which is not always bad).
SnakeDoc
I have read it to mean “utter nerve,” which you need in this fight for life ...
I hate these displays myself, but there is no question that people are astonishingly ignorant.
I just finished a well-written novel, in which a woman converses with her wanted, threatened unborn child during the interval of two to three months gestation. She and the author are convinced that the baby is a “group of cells” with no arms and legs. (Guessing that the male author has no children.)
It is my belief, though, that too many people are simply unable to process the images of aborted babies and take in the truth. The images are too horrific and the truth is too threatening, and defense mechanisms are instant and very strong.
Are there any groups which have tried the approach of, this is the display of the normal development of the human being in utero. Over here, if you want to learn more, is a display of the graphic, terrible images of these human beings after abortion.
If the display does not get approved, I hope the lawsuit will draw publicity to the issue.
http://www.littleonepublishing.com/
“Are there any groups which have tried the approach of, this is the display of the normal development of the human being in utero. Over here, if you want to learn more, is a display of the graphic, terrible images of these human beings after abortion.”
I love that guy. If I could, I’d write a big check.
Sorry, that chart isn’t developmentally accurate. It is also emotionally manipulative and patronizing.
Don’t like babies much, do you?
A terrific site as far as education goes - very accurate and incredibly detailed.
They are not pro-life, however. They remain “neutral on bioethical issues.” So they are not going to show abortin images.
BUT - very large but - the earlier in life (childhood) that people learn about fetal development, the more likely they are to sympathize with the unborn child. The more most people know about their baby’s development, the less likely they are to choose abortion, and perhaps they will be less likely to risk an unwanted pregnancy as well.
So pro-lifers ought to support EHD’s mission.
Bloodied baby corpse pictures harm our pro-life cause.
In contrast, beautiful ultrasound movies convince vast numbers of pregnant women to not murder their unborn.
If you are pro-life and want to advance the pro-life cause, support ultra-sounds. Give them away for free to expectant mothers.
...and ditch the bloody baby pics. Disgusting.
EXCELLENT.
Please let me know when a reply is posted from the
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INDEED.
Gregg Cunningham of CBR and Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics have done more to end abortion in America than any other two individuals I could name. There are other men and women who have dedicated their lives to the fight, and who run great and important organizations, but the effective tactics of these two men are making younger generations of American increasingly pro-life.
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