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Priests for Life ^ | 2-24-03 | Frank Pavone

Posted on 02/24/2003 9:09:55 AM PST by Bayou Bob

"I have been a pro-choice believer my entire life until someone shared your web-site with me. I was first shocked then sickened by what I saw. God, how could I have been so misguided my entire life? I actually believed it was not a baby. I actually believed a first trimester abortion was fine. Boy did you open my eyes. I believe that God worked with me today to show me the right way. I have often wondered if I was wrong but always dismissed those thoughts until I saw these photographs."

I have always been convinced that showing people pictures of aborted babies is a powerful way to convince them that abortion is wrong. Because of this, I recently posted several galleries of such images on my website, at www.priestsforlife.org/images. Now despite the fact that the Priests for Life website has thousands of pages of print, and hundreds of hours of audio files, nothing on that site has changed more minds about abortion than the pictures. No pages are visited more frequently, and we keep getting emails like the one above, and like these:

"I'm 25, white...from an middle class family in NY. Before seeing this site I was 100% pro choice... However after seeing these photos, I can honestly say I have changed my opinion."

"Your website has completely changed my views. I, personally, did not believe in abortions, but I felt it should be left up to the woman. Now I have realized that the "glob of tissue" the abortion clinics often talk about is truly a human being. I will pass information about this website along to everyone I know. Thank you so much. You have saved more unborn babies? lives then you?ll ever know."

"Up until now I've been indecisive on the subject of abortion, unable to decide if a foetus could be considered a person, a living thing. After seeing these images I am now against this horrific procedure."

The images also have an impact on those who are already pro-life, as the following email indicates:

"Today, I saw your website with the photos of the aborted babies and wept. I have always been anti-abortion and have voted against any candidate whose party or platform supports abortion. However, like many of the uninformed masses, abortion was something abstract, impersonal yet immoral. Your web site has changed my view of abortion forever."

There is no "magic answer" to end abortion in our nation, and I interact every day with many pro- life groups and leaders to support many different strategies. But it is a big mistake to think that the pictures "don't work" or "everyone knows" what abortion is. The more you use the photos, the more you learn that the opposite is true. They make a hidden injustice visible.

You are free to download and print the images, and their medical authentication, at www.priestsforlife.org/images. If people you know are unsure about abortion, send them to that web page. They will never be the same.

Contact Priests for Life at PO Box 141172, Staten Island, NY 10314; Tel: 888-PFL-3448, 718- 980-4400; Fax: 718-980-6515; email: mail@priestsforlife.org; web: www.priestsforlife.org


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; babies; fatherhood; infanticide; motherhood; parenthood; prochoice; prolife

1 posted on 02/24/2003 9:09:55 AM PST by Bayou Bob
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To: Bayou Bob
The Democrat Party's instruction to the masses, that "Babies Come from Portals," is disproved, shockingly.
2 posted on 02/24/2003 9:12:54 AM PST by First_Salute
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To: Bayou Bob
This is a war we can and should win, what a frightening web site.
3 posted on 02/24/2003 10:05:58 AM PST by mamarainsberry (If I was an ostrich I could vote dem)
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To: Bayou Bob
I am particularly haunted by the image of the aborted infant's face placed next to the five-cent piece for the purpose of determining relative size. A nickel is more than the abortionist considered the worth of this life. Look closely, for the face of the crucified Christ is contained in the faces of these victims.
4 posted on 02/24/2003 10:25:31 AM PST by Dionysius
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To: Bayou Bob
Well, of course images work...why else would the pro-abortionists try so hard to BLOCK people from seeing the truth in images like these? Our minds see best in pictures and pictures can change hearts forever.
5 posted on 02/24/2003 10:34:06 AM PST by lsee
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To: Bayou Bob
Thanks for the link. That's absolutely disgusting and heartbreaking. I'll put the link on my personal web page for others to see.
6 posted on 02/24/2003 10:37:47 AM PST by Martyboy1
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To: Bayou Bob
BTTT!!!!
7 posted on 02/24/2003 10:49:40 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (The unborn are fully human, but those who kill them didn't quite make it.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
BTTT! This should be linked far and wide.
8 posted on 02/24/2003 10:54:41 AM PST by Paul L. Hepperla (Abortion ends life and the potential it holds.)
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To: Bayou Bob
Thank you for the link. The media refuses to show us the truth about abortion. Killing babies is evil and cruel.

Link to abortion images
9 posted on 02/24/2003 10:58:58 AM PST by Eric Cassano
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To: Eric Cassano
Some pro-life limericks from politickles.com:

MOTHER'S DAZE
"In confusion I resorted
To the 'choice' that was exhorted;
Now every day
I cry and pray
For the baby I aborted."

BAD CHOICE
How much progress would be unrecorded,
How greatly our culture distorted,
If Edison and Gates,
Shakespeare and Yeats
Had never been born, but aborted?

CHOICE POSITION
Don't be fooled by the "pro-choice" ruse
That amoralists use to confuse,
For your choices could
Be bad or good
And it matters how you choose.

LEGAL ISSUE
Five Justices' wanton support
Preserves the grim "right" to abort:
To keep babies alive,
Replace one of those five
And establish a life-choosing Court.

LOST ON EARTH
We're so eager to find a trace
Of the least little life in space,
But here on Earth
We bar the birth
Of lives we could embrace.

TERRIFIED TISSUE
"Oh, Mama, don't let that thing get me!
Oh, Mama, you've not even met me!
Oh, Mama, please give
Me a lifetime to live!
Oh, Mama, you'd never regret me!"

http://www.politickles.com
10 posted on 02/24/2003 2:02:28 PM PST by Bayou Bob
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To: Paul L. Hepperla
BUMP!
11 posted on 02/24/2003 3:43:53 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (The unborn are fully human, but those who kill them didn't quite make the cut.)
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