Posts Tagged ‘abortion pictures’
Flying car invented by CBR missionary friend
Steve Saint has invented a flying car. You may recall the story of Steve’s father Nate Saint, who was a missionary pilot. In 1956, he and four other missionaries were killed by Waodani Indians during an effort to make peaceful contact with them.
We have all been inspired by their sacrifice and the courage shown by family members of these men, women actually returned to the Waodani Indians with the good news of Jesus Messiah.
Steve is now himself a missionary pilot, and has been a huge help to CBR in setting up our airborne RCC campaign, which features huge abortion photos on airplane tow banners. Now he’s invented a flying car! Check it out:
Media coverage for Georgia GAP
The Kennesaw University Sentinel:
The University of Georgia Red and Black:
- Anti-abortion display an offensive spectacle (letter)
- Freedom of speech prevails in Tate Plaza
- Tate Plaza Abortion Display
- Abortion display offensive (letter)
- Abortions do not equal Holocaust
- Display violates University Code of Conduct
- Abortion display shows the truth (letter)
The Student Free Press
Three lives saved at the U of Tennessee – Please pray!
This is from Jane Bullington, CBR Southeast Project Director. Please pray for mom, dad, and baby.
Three Lives Saved
She walked over the hill and down the walkway, stopping to gaze at the pictures. A typical student on her way to class, or so I thought. I asked if she had any questions. “Evelyn” looked at me with teary eyes, “I’ve just come from the health clinic; I’m pregnant. I was asking for a big RED sign to tell me what to do. I almost never walk to class this way, but I did today, and here are your signs.” I hugged her and said “I think this is just the sign you are looking for; can we talk?” As we I talked, she told me her friend (on the phone) was encouraging her to keep the baby, but her boyfriend was leaning toward abortion. I asked what her parents would say. “They will be disappointed,” was the answer. I suggested to her that disappointment is often a short-lived emotion and when they hold their grand baby, it will be very different. I told her that at 6 weeks, her baby has a heartbeat, brain waves, and all his systems in place. We talked about what abortion could do to her. I gave her our papers on psychological and physical effects of abortion, so she could be well-armed when she spoke with her parents. I also gave her the phone number for the Hope Resource Center (HRC) near the campus. My parting comments were very personal. I told Evelyn I would be honored to walk with her through this pregnancy if she kept her baby and if she stayed in Knoxville throughout the pregnancy. (I later asked God to allow me this privilege.) She cried, we hugged, and she walked away.
About half an hour later, Evelyn came back and told me her boyfriend was coming to see the pictures, and she would like me to talk with him. I saw “George” approaching and introduced myself, saying I realized this was not what he expected when he woke up this morning. He grinned slightly.
I left them alone to look at the photos and talk, but I kept my eye on him the whole time. He was distant and talkative, but would not look at the pictures in any great detail. After a few minutes, they came back to me. I asked George if he had time and would he allow me to talk with him for a few minutes. He agreed and we sat down. “George, you are already a father; you have a baby. It is a tiny baby, but it is your baby.” The lines on his face immediately softened and he visibly relaxed. I basically shared all that I had told Evelyn, and said to him, “George, I don’t think Evelyn is asking you to marry her; she just wants emotional support from you. I have already told her I will be here for her the entire way, if she wants or needs my help, and I will be here for you too.” He smiled, thanked me, and said “we will be calling you a lot of times.” He stood up, took my hand, and then walked off with Evelyn, arm in arm.
The next day, I took Evelyn a copy of The Biology of Prenatal Development, a wonderful DVD showing the growth of the baby in the womb, produced by The Endowment for Human Development (www.ehd.org). She promised to view it with her surrogate dad the next weekend and seek his support. She and George had already scheduled a counseling session with an on-campus ministry chaplain, and were going to inquire about putting “their baby” in on-campus childcare next fall where she works. She hopes they can get in to see someone at HRC the next Monday, before the Thanksgiving holiday. My parting advice: “There will be ups and downs in the next few weeks, and you may have thoughts of changing your mind, but don’t do anything in a hurry. Call me before you do anything different from we have talked about, please.” She agreed, but said “George is in baby mode, and while I am still in a muddle, I know what we are going to do.” We hugged and cried again, and off she went.
Do the pictures work? Oh, yes they do! For the unborn child, for the scared mother, and for the doubtful dad.
Pro Life “Over” Campus at Liberty University
CBR is flying a huge photo of abortion over Liberty University this week, so that Liberty students can learn the truth. For many of them, it will be the first time. WSET-TV has the story. Watch the video!
Most people have abortions simply because they don’t know who the unborn child is, nor do they know what abortion does. Christian youth are just as vulnerable, because “pro-life” churches are covering up the truth as effectively as everyone else. If your church is not showing abortion photos or video, babies are being lost that could have been saved.
The coverup at Christian schools is just as egregious, if not more so. The most striking examples are Notre Dame University and Liberty University, arguably the flagship universities of the Catholic and Protestant worlds, respectively. Both have prevented the display of abortion photos on their campuses. The First Amendment protects pro-life education at public universities, but not at private schools. It is mind-blowing to think that public university students know more about abortion than Christian university students.
Just a year ago, I showed abortion to a small group of maybe five Liberty University students. None had seen abortion before. One of them later wrote,
Seeing all those graphic photos and that video brought me to tears and showed me [abortion] is murder; it is wrong. I want to now fight for their lives.
Another wrote,
I witnessed my first abortion through the images and clips by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform. That has changed my view on abortion. … [After] actually seeing the results of this murder, I am pro-life because abortion is bluntly murder and should be outlawed!! I believe these pictures should be shown to change the minds of people on abortion.
Fortunately, the airspace over these universities is still free. Last year, we flew abortion photos over the Notre Dame campus.
Expect us to be more and more aggressive in educating Christians in the public spaces around their schools and churches. If abortion is to be stopped, three adverse conditions must be corrected:
- Christian people must know what abortion is and does. (They don’t.)
- Christian people must act in proportion to the injustice. (We don’t.)
- The Church must lead. (It doesn’t.)
By ourselves, we can’t do much about #2 and #3, but we will do everything we can to correct the lack of knowledge.
Pro Life on Campus at the University of Georgia
One of our favorite places to carry the pro-life message is the University of Georgia. We always get huge crowds, and today was no different.
The center-piece and magnet for our presentation was obviously the Pro Life on Campus GAP display on Tate Plaza. But that was just the beginning.
Add to that a poll table, in this case staffed by Toby Tatum of Georgia Right to Life. Using a simple question, “Should abortion remain legal?”, Toby was able to engage a steady stream of students
Add to that a table-top display by the Athens Pregnancy Center. Add to that a table-top display by Deeper Still, a post-abortion counseling ministry.
Add to that our Free Speech Board, where students are invited to write their comments. We (along with other students) write responses. For example, a student wrote, “Don’t judge people! You never know why they decided abortion was right for them.” I responded, “Let’s see if this works … ‘Don’t judge people. You never know why they decided owning slaves was right for them.”
Catherine Davis of Georgia Right to Life, Director of Minority Outreach at GRTL, drew huge crowds as she described how abortion providers target minoirity communities.
Pro Life on Campus at Kennesaw State University
Great day at Kennesaw State University. This is the 3rd largest university in all of Georgia. We were priviledged to be joined by several of our friends from Georgia Right to Life who joined us for the entire day.
Abortion photos save three more babies and moms
Got this message from Mary Jost, Director of the Focus Pregnancy Help Center in Rochester, NY:
I am the director of Focus Pregnancy Help Center in Rochester, NY. We are two doors down from Planned Parenthood. A small remnant of us go and protest in front of their place with your graphic pictures. Girls have come up to us and said they changed their minds because they saw your graphic images. I am convinced that showing the pictures is extremely effective in saving babies lives.
Last week, three girls carried their babies to term because they saw the graphic pictures.
Abortion photos on TV in Washington, DC
Missy Smith’s Congressional campaign is using CBR abortion photos in her advertisements. Because Federal campaign laws prohibit censorship of advertisements for President, Senate, and US House campaigns, the TV stations must run her ads, but only if she can pay the cost! She asks your help in paying for one of these ads! Click here to help!
Pro Life on Campus at Obama’s Rally at Ohio State
Pro lifers use CBR’s “Choice” signs to greet Pres. Obama’s ralliers at Ohio State University. You can do this at a campus near you! Click here to buy 4 “Choice” signs and display them all you want!
If you can’t do this yourself, then please help us do it with your gift of $10 a month (click here). Your $10 will help take our bigger Pro Life on Campus display to 20 major universities next year. One-time gifts (click here) buy new signs and even a large-screen TV for outdoor use.
Many students who see these signs are hard-core pro-choicers, but not all. Many young people hear only one view on campus, but these pictures tell the whole story. Many will change their minds.
Priest, Brother of Arrested Carleton Student: ‘I Can’t Be a Moderate Pro-Lifer Any Longer’
The arrests of five pro-life students at Carleton University earlier this month should inspire pro-lifers to step up and engage in the pro-life battle, said Fr. Simon Lobo, brother of arrested Carleton Lifeline President Ruth Lobo, in a powerful homily in Ottawa.
Fr. Lobo hadn’t been doing nothing. He had attended the marches, the life chains, the 40 Days events, etc. But after seeing his sister’s example, he knew it wasn’t enough.
It would be easy to blame the university, the police, or “those who promote a radically liberal agenda” for the arrests, he said in the homily, “but you and I are part of the problem, because we have put up with too much for too long.”
Fr. Lobo called the graphic images of abortion used in GAP, which are often seen as controversial, “disgusting.”
“But they’re also true and accurate. Abortion is disgusting,” he added.
Pro life speaker on tour … Change the world with $10
Thank so much to the Henderson/Buncombe Right to Life for hosting me at the Henderson County Library on Saturday. This Right to Life group is fired up and ready for more than just “business-as-usual” pro-life stuff. I look forward to returning.
The title of my talk was “Lessons From the Past: How We Can Win.” That’s the critical question, because winning is how the killing stops. I got a good write-up in the Hendersonville Times-News. My main points:
- Reformers of history ended (1) the slave trade in Egland, (2) slavery in America, (3) abusive child labor in our factories, and (4) segregation in the South.
- All of these movements used horrifying pictures to change people’s knowledge of the facts.
- Successful reformers were willing to accept persecution.
- They were not content to “reduce” injustice. They worked tirelessely until they ended the whole boody mess.
I also challenged all present to change the world with only $10:
- Our movement is suffering from censorship. Not the censorship of government. It is the censorship of pro-lifers who will not help.
- We are praying that we can increase our campus visits from 6 schools/year to 20 schools/year. Guess what that will cost. I’ll tell you … $10. That’s it. $10 every month from 1,000 people. If you have internet/cable TV, you can afford $10. Please click here and give $10/month. Your reward is in heaven.
Would you give $10 a month to stop this:
Christian love or perversion of mercy?
In response to the arrest of brave pro-life students at Carleton University in Canada, we got an e-mail from a pro-life, Christian Carleton student. She objected to the work of the arrested students on the grounds that showing photos of abortion is neither loving nor compassionate. She wrote, in part:
If you can honestly say that you are upholding the greatest commandment, to love your neighbour, by holding up those graphic images then we clearly have a different interpretaion of this great commandement.
CBR Executive Director Gregg Cunningham responded:
Your references to Christian “love” are badly muddled. Ephesians 5:11 commands us to “Expose the deeds of darkness.”
We aren’t calling women who abort “murders” and I challenge you to find one sign or document of ours which makes that accusation. Women who abort invariably know they are doing something wrong, but they seldom know how wrong. They are lied to about who their baby is and what abortion will do to both mother, and child and in that sense they are also victims of abortion. Abortionists, however, are physicians. They know exactly what they are doing. They are unambiguous murders.
Nothing could be more cruel or un-Christ-like than for pro-lifers to help abortionists trick mothers by hiding the horror of the abortions into which they are being deceptively drawn. That is a dark perversion of mercy which cannot fairly be called compassion.
That pretty well sums it up!
Courageous pro-life students are examples for all of us
Yesterday (October 4), pro-life students at Carleton University were arrested for trespassing when they attempted to display the pro-life Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) on their own campus. Carleton University is a public university in Ottawa, Ontario. GAP is a controversial but peaceful project of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR); it has been displayed hundreds of times at university campuses and other venues all over the world.
It should be noted that despite the suppression of freedom in places like North Korea, Canada, Iran, etc., pro-lifers in freedom-loving countries like the United States and Russia have routinely displayed GAP without government interference.
The university said that while the students could not display their signs in The Tory Quad, a busy outdoor location on campus, it welcomed them to erect their signs in Porter Hall, an indoor room.
Ruth Lobo, president of Carleton Lifeline responded: “They are trying to sound reasonable by providing an alternate location, but what they aren’t saying is that Porter Hall is a closed room that few students pass by or even know where it is,” she said.
Club vice-president James Shaw added, “Telling us we can protest but in a back room no one goes to, is like telling black people they are welcome to ride the bus as long as they sit at the back.”
The university has reportedly been saying that student groups aren’t typically allowed to have displays in the Quad. Lobo asked, “If the Quad isn’t bookable, why advertise it as bookable space for student groups? More importantly, the university has never communicated to us that this is its reason for denying us the space. We’re only hearing about it through media who call us for a response.”
Refusing to tolerate censorship, the students proceeded to walk to Tory Quad with their signs. Part-way to their destination, they were stopped by authorities, eventually amounting to at least 3 campus security personnel and at least 9 police officers. Four Carleton students were eventually handcuffed and arrested by Ottawa police and charged with trespass.
Shaw commented, “I find it disgusting that Ottawa police allowed themselves to be hired as thugs to do the university’s dirty work. Shame on them for participating in Carleton’s censorship of its tuition-paying students.”
For more information contact Ruth Lobo or James Shaw at 613-600-4791 (cell).
Please pray that God will protect and deliver these brave students.
Note: Here at PloC, we don’t ask you to get arrested. We only ask you to give $10 a month. If 1,000 people give $10 a month, we can grow from 6 GAPs a year to 20 GAPs a year.
Other stories at Life Site News, National Post, Canada NewsWire, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Sun, Maclean’s on Campus, and National Post.
Canadian universities like Third World dictatorships? Please pray for brave students.
Please pray for these brave students. When it comes to freedoms that we take for granted, some Canadian universities are degenerating into Third World dictatorships. The University of Calgary has already made it. Here’s a press release from CBR Canada.
Students Risk More Penalties from University of Calgary for Defying Censorship
CALGARY – Despite warnings from the University of Calgary administration, members of the Campus Pro-Life (CPL) student group found guilty of “Non-Academic Misconduct” for having set up a pro-life display on campus this past April are once again displaying the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) on the U of C campus.
The controversial display compares abortion to past historical atrocities, such as the Rwandan genocide and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. The display is scheduled to be set up between the MacEwan Student Centre and Science B buildings today (September 27th) and tomorrow (September 28th).
“The images are difficult to look at; admittedly, we don’t like looking at them either, but the images are only upsetting because abortion is upsetting,” stated CPL President Alanna Campbell.
After the display was previously exhibited last April, members of the group were charged and found guilty of a ‘Major Violation’ under Section 4.10 of the University of Calgary’s Non-Academic Misconduct Policy for “failure to comply with a Campus Security officer or University official in legitimate pursuit of his/her duties” by refusing to turn their display inward. Other major violations in this category include sexual assault, the use of explosives and firearms, and selling illegal drugs.
The guilty verdict was “a formal written warning” that if the students “fail to comply with directives of Campus Security staff in the future” it will “result in more severe sanctions,” wrote Acting Associate Vice-Provost Meghan Houghton, who was the sole decision-maker in the guilty verdict. More severe sanctions can include the possibility of expulsion. The University’s Appeal Board refused to hear the students’ appeal, and members of the student group will appeal the guilty verdict to the Board of Governors.
“This will be the tenth display of GAP on campus. We have always found that this display has a large capacity for healing, educating, and raising awareness,” said CPL Vice-President Cameron Wilson. “That makes this display, without a shadow of doubt, worth the cost that the university seeks to exact from us individually.”
The group has displayed its Genocide Awareness Project on the University of Calgary grounds, without incident, nine times since 2006. In 2006 and 2007, during the first four Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) campus displays, the University defended the students’ right to expression under the Charter, but in 2008 the University reversed its policy without explanation.
In 2009, the University charged six students with trespassing in relation to the display, but the Crown Prosecutor stayed these charges prior to a trial scheduled for November of 2009. Since then, members of Campus Pro-Life have been threatened with Non-Academic Misconduct upon each display, and the University has found eight students guilty of Non-Academic Misconduct.
“We believe in the effectiveness of the display and we believe in our right to display it. For these reasons, we will not give in to intimidation and will challenge all attempts at censorship. We are proceeding now just as we have in the past,” stated Peter Csillag, CPL Vice-President.
For further information, contact Club President Alanna Campbell at (403) 690-5217, Vice-President (External) Cameron Wilson at (403) 668-9624, Vice-President (Internal) Peter Csillag at (403) 465-1777, or lawyer John Carpay at (403) 619-8014.
Abortion: one woman’s story
McKenzie Haun of the Canadian CBR tells the story of her abortion. Her story is all too common, but with your help, it can be less common.
Sometimes, all it takes is one person speaking truthfully to give other people the freedom to do the same thing.