by ACP | Apr 9, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Abortion is legal, but it is certainly not rare or safe for women and their unborn children. Thanks to the good folks at Abortion in Washington and their excellent investigative reporting, we now know with certainty what a recent ambulance visit to Planned Parenthood in Everett, WA was all about. Nothing to see here. Planned Parenthood staff attempts to cover up the scene. Today, AIW released the audio of a Planned Parenthood staffer named Pamela calling 911, on March 18, 2011, to report that they needed transportation to the hospital for a “patient who is bleeding.” Listen to the audio here: This is not the first botched abortion in recent memory. So-called “safe” abortions come with a laundry list of complications, not to mention a lifetime of regret for the mother. Like abortion’s devastating effect on unborn children, so must we expose its effect upon...
by ACP | Mar 31, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In response to the ACP protest at a Planned Parenthood rally this month, pro-lifer ‘Suni Moon’ writes: “Pictures of aborted babies, huh? Well, that’s certainly not treating those lives lost with the respect they deserve. Don’t praise these people for doing what they did. It’s completely inappropriate, going only on shock factor. Turning those photographs into shock factor. Not dead infacts, just shock factor. Not a life, just something grotesque. It’s horribly demeaning, disrespectful, disgusting. Shame on these people and their backwords methods.” The ACP responds: Suni Moon, please do not be so quick to condemn. If you were a student of history and of social reform, you would know that going all the way back to William Wilberforce and the anti-slavery movement, shocking, distasteful, horrifying images have always been used by effective reformers to educate and change public opinion. As Wilberforce famously said, “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” Pictures of aborted babies are the most powerful and effective material means at our disposal for changing hearts and minds. Social Reform 101 teaches that you cannot end an injustice which you agree to cover up. Martin Luther King put it this way, “Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” For 40 years pro-lifers...
by ACP | Mar 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Prominent columnist and pro-life blogger Jill Stanek linked to our event last weekend in Seattle, which, with her wide readership, generated over a hundred comments, and led to a subsequent headline on LifeSiteNews.com. Here is one exchange buried in the comment section of Jill Stanek’s blog. “Were any of you even at the rally?” -JB I held the camera. “Planned Parenthood’s primary service is NOT abortion, it is prevention.” -JB Arguing over what their “primary” service is is irrelevant. PP is directly responsible for the deaths of more than a quarter million American babies every year. I am not in the habit of weighing any perceived good someone does against the lives of babies he ends. You cannot shelf the baby killing and engage in rational discussion of positive attributes of PP any more than we could shelf the Jew killing and discuss positive attributes of Hitler. (If Godwin is a sticking point for you, just replace Hitler with Pol Pot.) “The rally wasn’t for abortions, it was for Planned Parenthood.” -JB Again, you’re trying to divorce Planned Parenthood from baby killing, and so long as they remain the nation’s largest abortion provider, that just isn’t possible. Imagine if I attended a rally in support of federal funding for the Ku Klux Klan, and you showed up with pictures of blacks being lynched. What would you think if I posted that the rally wasn’t for lynching blacks, it was for the KKK? “As far as the pro-life protesters who showed up, they should have read what the rally was actually for. We were not looking for a debate between...
by ACP | Mar 20, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Yesterday, March 19th, the Anti-Choice Project took Planned Parenthood up on their invitation to stand with them during an hour-and-a-half rally at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle. You can imagine their surprise when we joined the crowd carrying 4′ X 3′ pictures of what babies look like as they leave Planned Parenthood. Marc Snyder, director of ACP Seattle, organized the counter protest which included 11 ACP volunteers. Planned Parenthood rallied a few hundred pro-aborts to listen as members of Planned Parenthood and of public office (including King County Executive Dow Constantine (D)) decried attempts by our new congress to cut millions in federal subsidizing of Planned Parenthood, and gave testimony to the greatness of the abortion giant. This was no easy task, as each speaker attempted to extol the virtues of an organization responsible for the carnage displayed on 11 signs around them. Many of the pro-aborts in attendance scrambled to do whatever they could to prevent the images from being seen. Yet no one was able to answer the question posed to them, “If abortion is a morally defensible choice, why do you feel the need to cover it up?” (One woman covering my sign even responded sincerely, “That’s a good question.”) One thing is clear. Pro-lifers dispute the power and effectiveness of using abortion pictures to change hearts and minds. Pro-aborts do...
