Posted on 07/19/2005 7:51:23 AM PDT by Millee
Skip Yoder longed for the quiet of his family's Missouri farm, but instead the 22-year-old walked down the 16th Street Mall on Monday, enduring jeers while lugging a huge color photo depicting aborted body parts.
"I'm definitely not comfortable with all this parading around and hearing all this language," Yoder said, "but if you can make a difference to one child, it's worth it." Yoder is among an estimated 300 abortion protesters in the Denver area this week for the annual national gathering of Operation Save America, formerly called Operation Rescue.
Brandishing shock photos and wearing vivid red T-shirts emblazoned with biblical passages, the group hopes to raise opposition to abortion, said spokeswoman Pat McEwen. She said each person must sign a nonviolence pledge before joining the group.
In that vein, protesters applauded Monday's news that abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph would spend the rest of his life in prison.
"He's not pro life, if he takes a human life," McEwen said. "He's just a murderer."
Today the group will be at the Boulder Bandshell in Central Park for an 8 a.m. speech by the Rev. Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life. They will also march to the Boulder Valley Women's Health Center, where abortions are performed.
On Monday, the group released 50 doves at the state Capitol to signify the estimated 50 million abortions performed since 1973, when the Supreme Court legalized abortion. Then they set off in groups down the 16th Street Mall. Some set up booths along the way, featuring oversized photos of bloody, lifeless infants.
The sight prompted 20-year-old passerby Daniel Bollinger to confront protester Tom Raddell.
"That's not a baby, those are cells," Bollinger told said.
"That's a first trimester killing," replied Raddell, of Cleveland.
"But when does life begin? You can't say. Nobody knows," countered Bollinger, a part-time telemarketer who attends college in Denver.
As he walked away, Bollinger said, "It makes me angry. They're making people feel worse about their sins."
Taira Baxter, 21, was angry, too. Pregnant with her third child, she said the photos were so repulsive that she had literally attacked some protesters on the street.
"I spit at a few people and I think I accidentally hit somebody, too," Baxter said. Then curiosity compelled her to join the protesters back at Civic Center for lunch "to hear what they had to say."
Baxter said she was repulsed again to see the sandwiches and apples set up near a makeshift gallery of bloody photos.
"It makes me lose my appetite," she said. "It'll make people change their minds, but I still think they're going about it the wrong way."
When she heard the disturbing images would be in town, supporter Eileen Eagleman hopped a bus in north Denver with her 15-year-old daughter, Shantoya.
"I wanted my daughter to see this," Eagleman said, adding that when she was a teenager she saw a similar exhibit and it made her resolve never to have an abortion. "I want to bring my five sons so they understand, too."
As he walked away, Bollinger said, "It makes me angry. They're making people feel worse about their sins."
So which is it, Mr. Bollinger?????
Wow, that Frude dude would have a field day with that quote.
Good for you.
Taira Baxter, 21, was angry, too. Pregnant with her third child, she said the photos were so repulsive that she had literally attacked some protesters on the street.
"I spit at a few people and I think I accidentally hit somebody, too," Baxter said.
It sounds like a nice lot of people opposing the pro-lifers.
As he walked away, Bollinger said, "It makes me angry. They're making people feel worse about their sins."
So which is it, Mr. Bollinger?????
Bollinger: "I want the best of both worlds and anyone who says I can't should read the constitution and see where it states our constitutional right to an abortion at any time, anywhere. It's right after the separation of state and eminent domain for Target superstore clauses..."
This comment enforces Yoders position.
Bollinger blew the entire arguement. Name an doctor that would remove healty cells in any surgery?
So, if they are not cancer cells, there is no reason to remove them as they are not a danger to the body.
Stand up against the cult of death and it's minons
and you will feel their wrath...
They nailed Jesus to a cross for telling them such things..
A pregnant woman attacks others.
Not too smart.
The cells are a fetus when the mother says it is and it is a baby when the mother says it is; but the mother can change her mind at anytime to change the status of the baby to a fetus or mere cells but not vice-versa, that would be coercion.
The Supreme Court says it is so and it is the absolute, unequivocal law of the land, no exceptions. Except for the results of the 2000 election...
>> It makes me angry. They're making people feel worse about their sins. <<
Success.
Ding, ding, ding ... we have a winner.
So which is it, Mr. Bollinger?????
It's very effective.
Abortion for too long has been kept in the closet, like a long lost brother whose been locked up in jail for life for 1st degree murder. People not only don't speak of it, they don't dare to even think it. And they never, ever bring it into public discourse.
It's not only an embarrassment, but a cardinal sin of total selfish convenience.
SO, it's better to assume there is no life until they breathe their first breath? What's wrong with assuming they are alive, Mr. Bollinger?
Mr. H.G. Wells
Was composed of cells.
He thought the human race
Was a total disgrace.
(E.C. Bentley -- quoted from memory, so ICBW)
If she lost her baby because the protesters upset her. Would she charge them with murder?
Then why not error on the side of logic, common sense -- how about CONCEPTION! Leaves no room for vacillating.
It is easier not to think about it. It is how liberalism persists. Don't look for logic, just accept the posititons. There can be no debate on the facts.
45 million children have been murdered since the legalization of abortion.
It makes me angry when I hear a PSA repeatedly on the radio telling me how many children have died of pediatric AIDS, and then claiming "apathy is lethal". Pro-choicers are apathetic too and responsible for far more death.
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