Pretty Stones and Dead Babies: Abortion's New Language

BreakPoint ^ | 1 Oct 03 | Chuck Colson

[Mr. Silverback]

There's an abortion clinic in Pittsburgh that defies all the stereotypes. The walls are lined with pink paper hearts containing heartfelt messages from parents to their aborted children. Family members are encouraged to write in a journal in the waiting room. And at the end of every pre-abortion counseling session, the patient is given a pretty, colorful stone to take with her.

What does a pretty, colorful stone have to do with abortion? The answer proves to be as bizarre as the question.

This novel approach to abortion is the trademark of a group of abortion clinics called the November Gang. A story in the September GLAMOUR magazine explains that at these clinics, "intensive counseling is offered to patients . . . Despite being staunchly pro-choice, counselors venture more willingly into areas like grief and regret than at most abortion clinics." They talk with the women about religious and psychological issues and let the women talk about their feelings toward their unborn babies.

Though the story doesn't say so, I wouldn't be surprised if the members of the November Gang are simply copying the counseling-centered approach pioneered by pro-life crisis pregnancy centers. But what the abortion clinic counselors are counseling is very different.

The GLAMOUR article reports, "One of the questions November Gang clinics sometimes ask patients is, Can you see abortion as a 'loving act' toward your children and yourself?" Faced with that query, "a lot of them are totally taken aback," says clinic director Debi Jackson. "Then they actually think about it, and they're like, 'Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I do love this child, but I can't [have] it right now.'" If a woman asks if God will forgive her, a counselor will turn the question back to her: "'Do you think there are any things that God considers completely unforgivable?'"

What these abortion counselors are doing is coaching patients to twist their own words, emotions, and moral understanding so that they can feel justified doing something that they're clearly acknowledging is wrong. In language full of sentiment, these women are gently encouraged to put their own short-term needs first, and not to think about what's best both for their babies and themselves in the long run.

The pink hearts signed "Mommy"; the informal baptism ceremonies that some women hold after their abortions; the stones that the women are told to "imbue . . . with whatever meaning they choose" -- all these things meant to heal and comfort are rendered duplicitous by the brutal act taking place. All the pink paper hearts in the world don't change the fact that abortion is taking a life with the mother's permission.

Pro-life advocates and counselors have been using the language of help and healing for a long time now and with great results. We need to keep doing that, but we also need to point out that language can be deadly when it is not used in service of the truth. Women do need to know that comfort and forgiveness are always available through Christ, if repentance is sincere. But they also need to understand that a child's life for a pretty, colorful stone is a very bad deal.

[Mr. Silverback]

Just when you think the pro-aborts couldn't get any sicker...

"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." --Isaiah 5:20

[Mr. Silverback]

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[jla]

If a woman asks if God will forgive her, a counselor will turn the question back to her: "'Do you think there are any things that God considers completely unforgivable?'"

The exemption of guilt ploy doesn't make these living beings any less dead.
Wonder if the gals make jewelry out of the stones, or maybe ornaments for their car's rear-view mirrors?

I couldn't agree with you more, Mr. S. These people can't possibly get any more sicker than they are.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Crazy...just crazy...but you know how they work..its just a "mass" or "tissue".

If you dont want a child...keep your damn knees together...

[MHGinTN]

Evil used to slink about seeing whom it could devour. Now it struts about and preens itself in public. And why not? The American people have lost the discernment to see the evil for what it is. Oh how very effective have been the mantras 1) 'a woman's right to choose' (a serial killer), and 2) 'abortion is a woman's reproductive right' (inferring serial killing is somehow a 'contraceptive' measure). Stupid, selfish Americans; no wonder liberals are doing everything they can to erase the name GOD from the public mind and taking every opportunity to remove any right to contemplate openly that there is a God ... because, trust me, He is getting very P.O.ed at America as we collectively abrot His blessings upon US. As we serially slaughter our posterity, we cancel our future bit by bit.

[Agnes Heep]

When winds of conscience waft about thy head,
And brooks of Rue do babble in thy brain,
Seek not thy quietude in lonely bed,
Nor utter careful words to stay thy pain.
For though words chosen well may ease the smart,
And turn the wretched, hateful wrong to right,
Alas! In sooth, they cannot touch the heart,
Nor kill Remorse, which flies upon the night,
With Satan, the Accuser, who will steal,
Betimes to whisper softly in thine ears,
Of dark deeds done; of Rack, of Cord, of Wheel,
And play upon the pipes of hidden fears.

Thus torn asunder, none shall see thy strife;
Thy spotted hand; thy bloody, dripping knife.

[sgtbono2002]

Abortionists arent Doctors , they are killers with legitimacy.

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

"Do you think there are any things that God considers completely unforgivable?"

Reply:

"Forgivable, counselor? Then you are saying that abortion is a sin?"

[Chemnitz]

Very sad, all of it.

[backhoe]

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Bringing Good Things to Life (ULTRASOUND)
Citizen magazine ^ | June 2003 | Karla Dial

Ever since I heard of this new technology, I've maintained that it is the Stealth Bomber that is going to zoom in under the pro-death crowd's radar and nuke them... once a woman sees what is really in her womb, it ceases to be a "tissue mass" and becomes... a baby. Her baby.

[Oztrich Boy]

"One of the questions November Gang clinics sometimes ask patients is, Can you see abortion as a 'loving act' toward your children and yourself?"

HOUSTON (AP) — Three weeks after she drowned her five children, Andrea Yates told a a psychiatrist that she was failing as a mother and believed she had to kill the children to keep them from going to hell.

[Paul Atreides]

Just when you think the pro-aborts couldn't get any sicker...

The abortionists and the supporters are bad enough. However, 99.9% of the shame belongs to the parent(s).

[Fudd]

Sooooo......

Instead of executing people who kill abortionists, we should make the perps paint stones a pretty color of pink? "Sorry your abortionist husband is dead, but the killer did say he was sorry and, look at this cute rock just full of happy feelings!"

[Paul Atreides]

Notice how the media treat any and every America-hating terrorist as a "freedom fighter," whose point-of-view we should consider. Contrast that to how the media doesn't ask us to consider the abortion doctor's murderer's p.o.v.

[RLK]

"intensive counseling is offered to patients .

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A type of shrewd desensitizion of conscience.

[Lurker]

George Orwell, call your office.

L

[visualops]

What these abortion counselors are doing is coaching patients to twist their own words, emotions, and moral understanding so that they can feel justified

Brainwashing 101

"Here, have this lovely Pet Rock instead of a child. It's so much more practical."

[Redcoat LI]

Where will these "counselors" be when the women they co-erced into this horrible act realise what they have done? To turn the forgiveness of our Lord against his most defenseless and innocent creations should earn these "people" their own circle in hell.
This practice is sick,sad,and worst of all,well thought out. Pure evil.

[jocon307]

"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." --Isaiah 5:20


Yes, these are the words I keep thinking of, in this our modern world. It applies to so many, and yet this article indicates this evil attitude has gone even further than many of us could ever imagine.

The story is like something out of 1984. Remember the last line?

SPOILER ALERT FOR ANY WHO HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK

STOP READING NOW

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

"He loved Big Brother."

And, in like manner, these desperate, hysterical women are being mind-f*cked to believe that "They love their babies".

And for this they get a rock. Brightly colored!

I better work harder to be saved, because if I have to spend eternity with this group, I'll have to kill myself.

[Mr. Silverback]

Dang, that is an extremely good and insightful point!