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Kitsap Sun Delays Publication of ACP Editorial Response
On October 14, 2009, the Kitsap Sun Editorial Board published a condemnation of the Anti-Choice Project (ACP) and those who work to expose abortion through the use of graphic images. Co-Founders of the ACP, Tom Herring and Andrew St.Hilaire submitted their response two days later.
Today, three weeks later, that letter was finally published. We cannot help but suspect that this was an attempt to marginalize our response to their criticism. Shame on the Kitsap Sun, waiting three weeks to print our reply to their attack piece against the ACP.
Click here to read the edited version and please voice your support for the ACP and your opposition to the horror of abortion, which the ACP is working diligently to expose, by commenting (nearly 100 comments already)! Below is the unedited version:
Dear Editor,
You rightly observe that our pictures of unborn babies shred to pieces by abortion are offensive. But rather than express your outrage with the local abortionists who show up to work every day at 623 Riddell Road — financially profiting from the act depicted — you condemn those working to expose the horror of baby-killing.
We are radically reshaping the way people think about abortion. We are focusing the debate away from abstractions like “choice” by showing the reality of what is being chosen. Our pictures dispel the myth that abortion is a complex and nuanced moral dilemma. They prove that it is an act of violence which kills a baby.
The Anti-Choice Project is here because abortion is here. We are here because Washingtonians are not very bothered by abortion — not sufficiently bothered, anyway, to do anything to stop it. Year after year they continue to elect pro-abortion politicians like Murray, Cantwell, Dicks, Gregoire and Obama. (They are not bothered, incidentally, until you show them what it means to 3,500 helpless babies every day.)
Like all successful movements of social reform, we will continue to confront Americans with a challenging and inconvenient message, so that the injustice of abortion is made unthinkable in our society.
Tom Herring and Andrew St. Hilaire
Co-Founders, The Anti-Choice Project
Director of Planned Parenthood Quits After Seeing Abortion
Claim: “Showing people horrifying images of abortion is ineffective and doesn’t change minds.”
Tell that to Abby Johnson:
The former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in southeast Texas says she had a “change of heart” after watching an abortion last month — and she quit her job and joined a pro-life group in praying outside the facility.
Abby Johnson, 29, used to escort women from their cars to the clinic in the eight years she volunteered and worked for Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas. But she says she knew it was time to leave after she watched a fetus “crumple” as it was vacuumed out of a patient’s uterus in September.
If seeing an abortion can change the heart of a Planned Parenthood clinic director, what kind of impact will abortion pictures have on everyday Americans?
Video: Protest at Bremerton High School – Part 2
Video: Protest at Bremerton High School – Part 1
The Anti-Choice Project recently paid a visit to Bremerton High School to show students there something their teachers refuse to show them: what abortion means to a defenseless baby. High school students can seek abortions, even without their parents knowledge… much less their consent. Kids old enough to have an abortion are certainly old enough to see an abortion.
For more on why the ACP shows teenagers these horrible images, please see our Frequently Asked Questions.
Genocide Awareness Project at UW is Huge Sucess
Thanks to many of the ACP volunteers who were there to make it possible!
ACP Comment on Kitsap Sun: Photos Are Enlarged
“Cean,” a user on the Kitsap Sun writes:
“The photos they display are a lie, as they are enormously enlarged.”
The images used by the Anti-Choice Project and the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform accurately depict what effect abortion has on the unborn child. These images of aborted babies are pictured with a common object, such as a coin or a hand to give perspective, so no matter how enlarged, anyone can recognize that the victims here are often smaller than a quarter. But their deaths are no less disturbing, and no less horrifying because of their size. In fact, we should express even greater outrage at an injustice whose victims are so small they cannot even defend themselves.
Nearly every billboard you pass down the street has pictures of enlarged people and products on them. If they were to show the actual size of the cell phone, hamburger, or whatever it was being advertised, you wouldn’t see it driving by at 25 mph. And so we enlarge images of once tiny and precious human beings, who were torn limb from limb and pitched in the trash, in order that their unjust killing might be known and exposed to the light of human conscience.
“Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Making Abortion Impossible to Ignore or Trivialize
From the Kitsap Sun:
Rob Rudnick would rather be flipped off than ignored.
Driving a box truck with graphic, billboard-sized pictures of aborted human fetuses on it, he gets a lot of both.
Rudnick, of Bend, Ore., was cruising Wheaton Way, Warren Avenue and Highway 303 on Monday afternoon as part of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform’s Reproductive “Choice” Campaign.
Rudnick, 55, said he would prefer a negative reaction than none at all.
“So far today I’m not seeing as many thumbs up,” he said from the driver’s seat. “It’s usually very polarized. Either I’m getting a thumbs up or the bird, but mostly I get indifference, which is the least healthy of all responses.”
Local groups have long demonstrated against abortion, often carrying signs with pictures like those splashed on the truck. But they’ve never had a vehicle like this to elevate the issue.
“One picture is worth a thousand words, and I believe this picture is worth a thousand sermons,” Rudnick said. “It’s like a television where you can’t change the channel.”
The protesters strive for shock value to make abortion impossible to ignore or trivialize, said Glenn Stockton, president of Bremerton-based Samuel’s Hand Coalition.
“The tendency is to have an emotional reaction and blame the person holding the picture,” he said. “We understand that, because it does evoke strong emotions, but the intent is to educate people about what goes on inside abortion facilities. We believe that once that is known and clearly understood and people witness these horrifying photographs, that the killing will stop.”
Stockton invited friend Darius Hardwick, Northwest operations director for Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, to bring the truck to Bremerton. It will tour here again this afternoon.
Michael Ferman, standing at Warren Avenue and 16th Street with the same pictures that are on the truck, watched it drive past a few times.
“It shows the truth,” he said. “When people say, ‘I’m pro-choice,’ this is what it means by ‘choice.’”
Ferman, 31, says he’s gotten several death threats and had his signs stolen and damaged. While he was there Monday, a man rolled down his window and flipped Ferman off. Another yelled, “Someone should have (bleeping) aborted you, you (bleeping) piece of (bleep).”
But he’s also had people tell him that they decided not to have an abortion because of the images.
“We’re here to help, and that’s the important thing,” he said.
David King of East Bremerton hates to drive his day-care van full of little kids past the signs and a little coffin that’s sometimes displayed.
“I understand they’re against abortion. That’s cool and all,” he said. “But they can go about it in another way. I wish they’d have a little respect for the kids who are here. There are different ways you can express your views. You can do things more positive than hold up pictures of dead babies.”
Stockton started the Samuel’s Hand Coalition a couple months ago. Besides stopping abortion, it seeks to improve the alternatives.
“We understand there are neglected and unwanted children born every day,” he said. “We want to work on the foster care and adoption systems in this area in order to not be simply moving the pain and death from one side of the womb to the other.”
Olympic College Protest – Changing Minds
During a protest at the entrance of Olympic College in Washington, a passerby changes his views about abortion after hearing pro-life answers to common pro-choice arguments. Check it out:
Many Americans are fed and accept the faulty pro-abortion logic which says it is better to kill a baby, than to have an overpopulated world; that it is better to kill a baby than to have a raped mother bear the burden of raising or placing her child up for adoption; that it is better to to kill a baby, than to have that babies deformities place a burden on society.
Tragic as these scenarios may be, they can never justify the intentional killing of innocent human beings.
Town Hall Crashers
The ACP paid a visit to the town hall meetings of Jay Inslee (8/29/09) and Norm Dicks (8/31/09) to show politically active residents of Kitsap County what electing pro-abortion politicians means to helpless babies in the womb.
Some voters expressed their appreciation, others their disgust with us. (Q: Why is it that people always want to attack the messenger?)