Posted on 02/28/2006 3:03:58 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
WASHINGTON, February 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life movement has made such gains in arguing for the humanity of the unborn, that abortionists and their apologists are finding their rhetoric is too harsh, even in traditionally supportive political circles.
The campaign slogans familiar to everyone who has read a news report on abortion: “my body my choice,” “women's choice is a human right,” are no longer resonating with the US public that is increasingly confronted with the devastating psychological and social aftermath of abortion. With even such politicians as notorious abortion campaigner Hillary Clinton trying to position herself as a moderate, the abortion industry is worried for its PR and clout.
Francis Kissling, head of the abortion industry front organization, Catholics for a Free Choice, said the movement is losing on what it used to consider its own ground. “There is a deep-seated fear (in the abortion lobby) that if you address the moral issues, you're going to lose,” Kissling said.
“But we're losing anyway. It's only by addressing the moral issues that we'll get some relief on the political questions.”
The problem is becoming so dire, that a leftist think tank, the Center for American Progress, is hosting a summit for abortionists, lobbyists and activists of all kinds to talk about how to address the situation. The meeting this Friday in Washington DC will attempt to forge a new public relations strategy.
An article in the current edition of Newsweek featured Peg Johnston, an abortionist in upstate New York who will be attending the Washington meeting. Johnston said that she eschews the euphemisms and jargon of the abortion lobby when speaking to clients. She says that her patients speak in terms of “babies” and “killing” so she uses those terms as well.
“At first I thought they were picking up the language from [anti-abortion protesters] outside. But then I started really tuning in to my patients, and I realized, 'She really feels that way'.” Johnston says.
But the shift to a warmer, more “compassionate” public image by abortionists has been developing for some time. George Tiller, the abortionist in Wichita, Kansas who specializes in killing late-term babies, features on his website photos of a macabre ‘baptism’ ceremony for the dead child which clients can have for an extra fee.
Claire Keyes told Newsweek that she plans to establish a “sanctuary space” in the abortion facility she directs in Pittsburgh and has offered ‘baptismal’ ceremonies.
Many abortion organizations, including Planned Parenthood now include a “chaplain” on the payroll whose job it is to help clients overcome their “guilt feelings” for having killed what few now deny is a human child.
Advances in sonogram technology were hailed by the pro-life movement as a great help in the argument for the humanity of the unborn, but this has not necessarily translated into moral comprehension.
Kirsten Moore, spokesman for the Reproductive Health Technologies Project says a focus group showed that women who see the pictures of their unborn child on a sonogram are as ready to kill as they ever were. “Women who are thinking about ending a pregnancy are not asking, ‘Is this a life?’ They know that it is. They are asking, ‘Can I take care of this baby?” Moore told Newsweek.
Despite the best efforts of pro-lifers the result, at least among committed abortion activists, is a further distancing from the fundamental notion that it is wrong to kill. The shift may be one that pro-lifers are not prepared for.
“We’ve really moved onto the next rung of the ladder haven’t we?” Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition commented to LifeSiteNews.com. “What do you do when they admit that they are killing babies and claim the right to feel good about it?”
“Abortion was bound to lead to this and the idea has finally sunk in,” Hughes said. “We have made the case for the humanity of the unborn only to convince the abortionists to claim the right to kill human beings without guilt. It’s a moral shrug. How do you argue with a shrug?”
The bloodlust of the abortion movement is on display for all to see!
Classic condescending lefty who couldn't give a damn about the babies she kills everyday. Only interested in making the sale to the women she sees as gullible. Just my opinion of course.
You're spot on the money!
Their message will be that you should feel good about paying to have your unborn baby ripped apart by a money hungary murderer.
I had an ex-girlfriend who said that oftentimes abortion was in the best interests of the baby itself (i.e. if the mother is poor, it is better to be dead than raised in a poor household). The mental sickness of the pro-abort crowd is there for all to see, but so many don't see it.
Last year I prayed regulary outside a clinic on Saturday mornings, and I noticed that many (if not most) of the women going in for abortions were perfectly aware that they were ending a life. That's most disconcerting. Before, it seems, we assumed it was mostly just young women being misinformed and making a bad choice because of that. Now it's trickled down from the abortionist to the patient, who simply doesn't place any value in human life any more than a nagging wart. In some ways, because attitudes have gotten so ugly, it's sparked a lot of the fence-sitters to come down on one side or the other. And, frankly, it looks like the trend is coming the pro-life way...
A moral shrug, killing without guilt.......I used to think that secularism led to a disregard for life, even to the point where it would decide "quality of life" for euthanasia......but this this detatchment for innocence is purely evil.
As a man who felt he couldn't be surprised or shocked, any more, at our moral decay, this proves me wrong. A moral shrug, watching a young life move inside a womb, then finding a way to convince that lifes source ( mother ) to kill it, all with a shrug.
I'm simply sickened .
There are many moral parallels between abortion and slavery, not the least of which is the relutance on the part of the abortophiles to acknowledge the humanity of the child they are killing.
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"George ["Tiller the Killer"] Tiller, the abortionist in Wichita, Kansas who specializes in killing late-term babies, features on his website photos of a macabre ‘baptism’ ceremony for the dead child which clients can have for an extra fee."
Truly sick.
Put a big yellow happy face on a poster of butchered baby parts with the slogans "We love what we do!" and "Your tax dollars at work!"
Harsh, yes... but NOW how can they complain about it? If they're so HAPPY about it? This just makes me sick.
Let's be optimistic about this. I'm sure the awareness that a baby is a human being even before birth has decreased the rate of abortion.
What struck me so deeply to my core was the detatchment / callousness of this "vendor", because thats what she considers herself, nothing more than a service provider. That lack of moral core simply baffles me.
Scary. So does this mean that any person who is poor or any child being raised in a poor household is "better of dead"? Should will kill all poor people? Whatever happened to being rich in other ways than money?!
These people live in such darkness, they actually believe this "softer, gentler, SICKER' approach to abortion is gonna sell.
All it does is give more emphasis to their utter depravity.
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