Posted on 08/10/2007 10:34:35 AM PDT by wagglebee
I completely agree with you. Drive around downtown at 10pm or later rather than a beach on mid-day. But targeting feelings of revulsion that just show a bloody baby and not those who pushed for the abortion doesn’t lead the audience properly. Show bloodstained hands of abortion counselors, boyfriends, parents and judges. Then show the helpless dead baby. That would lead the audience properly.
Amen!
http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/evidence.html
We had two confirmed babies saved as a result of our display. Both students approached Chris Stevens, our sponsor... One student told him that she had visited Planned Parenthood recently and was scheduled to have an abortion. She told him, After seeing these photos, that is an appointment I can cancel. I am having a child. The second pregnant student told Chris that family and friends have been pressuring her to consider abortion as an option. I now know that it is not. I love myself and my child. Lois Cunningham, Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR), regarding the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) display at Citrus College, Glendora, CA
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At a crisis pregnancy center in Knoxville, eight students came in for appointments as a direct result of GAP at the University of Tennessee. The director there said that all eight were originally planning to abort their babies. However, five had changed their minds strictly from having seen the GAP photos and had decided to carry their babies to term. The other three made the decision not to abort after counseling at the center. All eight babies were saved directly or indirectly from GAP. CBRs report of the GAP display at the University of Tennessee
More at link.
Bull. I never said anything about a woman committing suicide. Children should not be traumatised. That’s a fact.
OK, my mistake. I agree that a parking lot with only mothers and pre-schoolers for an audience is a counter-productive effort. Did it happen more than once? Was it a freelance activist or a representative of a formal group?
I hope your nephew is secure in the love of his parents for him and his sibling. It is horrible to know that some people want to get rid of their babies, but not his mother and father, etc etc.....
Who does this make uncomfortable? Most likely this ad will make Pro-Life people uncomfortable. That is not your audience though. Pro-Choice people who see this ad will more likely be angry about Pro-Life people being indecent. Why? Because it doesn’t lead the audience anywhere. You see a condemnation of the euphemism “choice” but nothing else.
The Pro-Life crowd needs to focus on a path they want young scared pregnant mothers to go on, and figure out carrot and stick advertising always focusing on the decision we want them to make. Show bloody hands of boyfriends, show happy sleeping babies, show ghostly babies that could have been being caressed by their crying would-be mothers, and show smiling children in adopted homes, but don’t show a dead baby with a slogan that only a die-hard Pro-Lifer could agree with.
Children should also not be murdered.
Wonderful news!
The children who survive should not be punished for abortions they had nothing to do with.
His parents are VERY pro-life.
Then they will have no problem knowing what to say to overcome his momentary fear caused by the thought of losing his sibling.
A little discretion in using these images which I also feel convey a vital message would gain more points and also defuse the inevitable cry of 'traumatizing little children' which will be used by the pro-abortion folks (and I am NOT calling you one) to try to have the images removed entirely.
A little common sense and the message gets out, in places where it may do far more good than harm.
Besides, if kids are seeing this from an early age, they will be desensitized eventually and it will lose the one thing which makes it an effective device: its ability to shock and offend the basic sensibilities of those who have been programmed with the 'lump of tissue' line of BS.
There is a place and time for everything, and parking this across from daycares, amusement parks, and the like would not be it.
Reality --- POST-abortives are driven to do many things because of the guilt and shame they carry with them.... they carry it because PP, the church and others do NOT have compassion on them to help them find the forgiveness. PP can't help them find forgiveness as it would be against their LIE of reality. PP's playbook is you MUST allow abortion or they may commit suicide. The LIE. TRUTH - show them the options, the real options, and give them hope and there is no thought of suicide.
I hope I am misundertanding what you were getting at.
nicely stated. though the target of the gore is not post-abortives, they are the ones impacted most by it. thank you for your perspective.
No.
I saw the film on TV. In my parent's house.
(But I think you must have known that)
They did okay. He is eight now.
But as another poster said, the driver of the truck didn’t have to sit up with the horrors and nightmares.
Here are some suggestions for your sister-in-law to tell your nephew about the bloody dead baby:
"Sweetheart, no one is going to kill you or your little brother. Daddy and Mommy will protect you, because we love you so very, very much. That's what mommies and daddies do -- they love and protect their children."
They said something like that.
The first night
The second night
The third night
and so on....
And, from what you've said upthread, it sounds as though your nephew has survived the trauma, and is living as an OK 8-year-old.
Eeew. I hope these guys aren’t around when I’m eating my burritos.
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