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"Truth Booth" Shows Fetal Development in Ohio Mall
LifeSiteNews ^ | 4/15/08 | Michael Baggot

Posted on 04/15/2008 4:23:44 PM PDT by wagglebee

TOLEDO, OH, April 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an effort to present pre-natal development "in an educational and non-confrontational manner," the Foundation for Life organization has rented space in a local mall for its "Truth Booth," featuring a set of ultrasound images tracing the development of a child from seven weeks of age until birth.

The unmanned display is in a rented kiosk in Westfield Franklin Park Shopping Mall.

"Being unmanned will actually help people just wander up to it. They won't feel threatened. They won't feel like there's any pressure. Any preachiness or debate that will take place…They'll debate this within their own minds," explained said Paige Scarlett, development director of Foundation for Life.

Booklets detailing the child's development in the womb are made available below the 4-D ultrasound images.

The $25-30 thousand annual rental cost for the booth will be paid through donations.

Foundation for Life received aid from LifeWorks Ohio, an organization that has helped display three other ultrasound kiosks in Cleveland.

"The whole idea is not to have anybody there talking or pushing an agenda. It's just a matter of providing that information to the public in a way that's not threatening," explained LifeWorks Ohio executive director Molly Smith.

Even professedly "pro-choice" individuals are impressed with the display.

"While this newspaper has long championed the pro-choice cause, the kiosk is an indication that the pro-life message has matured," stated a toledoblade.com editorial.

The editorial described the new "Truth Booth" as "a positive change in approach from the in-your-face tactics used previously by many anti-abortion activists."

In 2004, Mike and Maureen Nuzzi began the "Truth Booth" in Echelon Mall in southern New Jersey as a way of combining the latest in ultrasound technology with written information on crisis pregnancy centers and post-abortion aid.

After requests from mall officials, local volunteers staffed the booth to protect it from vandalism and answer questions.

Maureen Nuzzi told LifeSiteNews.com that her husband "wanted kids to know what babies looked like."  He was convinced that the "best way to reach them would be in the malls."

Maureen said that the malls have been "very receptive" to their educational approach that lets people "make up their own mind."

"The booth gives a girl an idea of what see is making a choice about."

Students passing by "wouldn't usually get this information in schools," added Maureen.

"I wish this were here when I was pregnant," stated a journal entry left near one of the "Truth Booths."

Maureen predicted that having the booths unmanned will make it easier for booths to spread through the nation.  Plans for booths in California, Connecticut and New York are already in the works.

"Truth Booths" have also been used at conventions, campus ministries, schools, and churches.

Learn more about the "Truth Booth":
http://www.truthbooth.org
http://www.lifeworksohio.org/truth_booth.asp

Support the efforts of LifeWorks Ohio:
http://www.lifeworksohio.org/donate_online.asp

Learn how to start a "Truth Booth":
http://www.truthboothcleveland.org/5_steps.asp



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: abortion; echelonmall; fetaldevelopment; informedconsent; moralabsolutes; prenataldevelopment; prolife
Maureen Nuzzi told LifeSiteNews.com that her husband "wanted kids to know what babies looked like." He was convinced that the "best way to reach them would be in the malls."

This will work!

1 posted on 04/15/2008 4:23:44 PM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 04/15/2008 4:24:23 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 04/15/2008 4:24:54 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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4 posted on 04/15/2008 4:25:26 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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great post, wagglebee...thanks


5 posted on 04/15/2008 4:28:18 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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Great idea...

Unfortunately, I bet it will be vandalized quickly...


6 posted on 04/15/2008 4:28:41 PM PDT by Dyslexic Mom
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This is a wonderful idea. Those who have their doubts about being pro-abortion/pro-choice will have a chance to reflect upon their beliefs about the issue. This can only be good.


7 posted on 04/15/2008 4:30:38 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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My first job at the hospital where I wound up working 20 years was in the Pathology Dept.One day I had to go into the autopsy room for something and was drawn to a number of containers along the walls that contained various organs and tissues (which were used for research,I learned).One container,about the size of a large pickle or mayonnaise jar,contained three or four fetuses.All of them were about the size of my thumb and were *perfectly* formed...to the extent that one of them needed his/her fingernails clipped.

It's an image that will remain etched in my mind until I die.

And,for the record,this was before Roe v Wade so I assume these children were stillborn or something like that.I don't think that Massachusetts had "liberal" abortion laws back them,but I'm not sure.

8 posted on 04/15/2008 4:46:52 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Women swooned in Mao's presence too.)
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I guess constructing New mall is somewhat analogous to fetal development and the ribbon-cutting ceremony being like coitus.


9 posted on 04/15/2008 4:49:00 PM PDT by Rudder (Klinton-Kool-Aid FReepers prefer spectacle over victory.)
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10 posted on 04/15/2008 9:21:16 PM PDT by Coleus (Abortion and Physician-assisted Murder (aka-Euthanasia), Don't Democrats just kill ya?)
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“wouldn’t usually get this information in schools” - is that so?

Why wouldn’t something this basic, fetal development, be part of high school education? They have sex ed, they give out condoms, etc, and they don’t even teach the basics of biology?

I recently had cause to go into a high school classroom, somewhere I’ve not been for decades. I was SHOCKED. Every square inch of wall space was covered with propoganda.

One entire wall was composed of student projects on - not sexuality - but specifically contraception, with pictures and descriptions of every kind you can imagine.

Another section was devoted to “Our Planet”. Astronomy, geology, you’re thinking? No. Global warming, and one poster with extremely derogatory language about logging companies.

One section was diversity, with pictures of “teens who have discovered they are gay” holding hands and all sorts of other stuff.

All that paid for by our tax dollars. Yet a private organization has to raise funds to put booths in malls so people understand that if you’re pregnant, it’s a baby? This is a great thing, but it’s really sad that it’s necessary.


11 posted on 04/15/2008 10:42:37 PM PDT by baa39
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12 posted on 04/16/2008 4:42:49 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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COOL!


13 posted on 04/16/2008 9:08:41 PM PDT by MountainFlower (There but by the grace of God go I.)
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