Posts Tagged ‘pro-life debate’
Pro Life on Campus at the University of Kentucky
GAP turns heads at the University of Kentucky.
We always love our time at the University of Kentucky. It is a very diverse student body, with many students representing every position on abortion. Students are generally respectful and willing to listen.
Our free speech board was a huge draw, as was our poll table. I don’t have exact numbers, but the list of students who identified themselves as pro-life was several pages long.
Media coverage already!
Pro Life on Campus at Eastern Kentucky University
Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) at Eastern Kentucky University
We put up our Genocide Awareness Project at Eastern Kentucky University today. With rain and 30-mph winds in the forecast, we constructed the display in a perfect location, sheltered from the rain and the worst of the wind. We managed to get the display taken down and loaded up on the truck before the heavy rains came.
The pro-aborts had promised to demonstrate, but only one showed up. Bummer.
Supervolunteers Gary Johnson and Larry Goad drove the RCC truck around campus.
RCC truck driving through the EKU campus.
The Case Against Abortion: Prenatal Development
New video from Abort73.com. See astounding images of 1st trimester baby.
Student reactions to Pro Life on Campus at University of West Florida
Pro Life on Campus at University of West Florida
On February 14-15, CBR took the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) to the University of West Florida. The video below features students talking about the project.
Media coverage was extensive:
Pro Life on Campus at Florida International University
Free speech board at Florida International University
CBR’s Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) tour of Florida universities continued at Florida International University (FIU) on February 21-22. Media coverage was sparse and slow in coming, but here it is:
Here’s a surprising comment by Oren Reich, an FIU law student:
I’m pro-choice, but think the exhibit was honest, compelling and non-offensive. Comparisons to genocide are appropriate considering their beliefs, and gory imagery is appropriate as well, just as I would use it for an anti-war demonstration.
Pro Life on Campus at Florida State University
Winning hearts, changing minds, and saving lives at Florida State University
CBR’s Florida GAP tour continues. Wednesday and Thursday, GAP made it’s 3rd appearance at Florida State University.
Media: FSU Student Newspaper
Pro Life on Campus at University of West Florida
Pro Life on Campus at University of West Florida
Monday and Tuesday of this week, we had our Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) at the University of West Florida. This is part of a tour of 4 Florida universities being sponsored by CBR Southeast, CBR Midwest, and CBR Florida.
Media:
Pro Life Training Academy in Pensacola
On my way to Pensacola. Sunday, we are doing our Pro Life Training Academy in preparation for GAP at the University of West Florida Monday and Tuesday. I’ll won’t be able to stay for the GAP, however, because of our big Celebrating Life event in Knoxville Monday night.
Speaking of Celebrating Life, we’re sold out! How about that! Hope to see you there!
Pro-aborts: “CBR so effective, only censorship and bully tactics can defeat them.”
Pro-aborts: CBR tactics are "really effective."
We have many endorsements from college students, pro-life activists, political leaders, and others who have seen our work in action. But this piece amounts to the strongest endorsement we have ever gotten.
Freedom of (hate) speech: Confronting the rise of anti-choice activities on Canadian campuses was written by a pro-abortion activist in Canada who laments the effectiveness of our Canadian CBR affiliate. She is so frustrated by the effectiveness of our work, she believes only censorship and bully tactics can ensure our defeat.
The more sophisticated of our opponents know that any open admission of our effectiveness will only make our fundraising and recruiting efforts more effective. That is what makes the candor in this article so remarkable. Military intelligence officials who interrogate prisoners of war usually focus their questions on determining what their captors believe to be the most effective tactics being employed against them and why. Our abortion adversaries just volunteered that information and we didn’t even need to water-board them!
Some excerpts:
These on-campus battles are the new front line of pro-choice activism in Canada. But with anti-choicers setting the terms of debate, how can pro-choice activists respond? [Note their admission that CBR is setting the terms of the debate, which is exactly what we want to do.]
But one thing that they have been really effective at doing is coming up with messaging that affects the popular discourse, which I think is a really dangerous thing because it will eventually seep into the legislature and the courts. [Another admission that CBR is “really effective.” Note the recognition that our work on campus will transform culture.]
Anti-choice groups are using the free speech argument to win the public relations battle … [The author believes we are winning. That’s important, because winning is how the killing stops.]
These presentations and displays have provoked a pro-choice response in a way the activities of other anti-choice groups have not. [That’s because the activities of other pro-life groups, in the view of the author, are not effective and need not be countered.]
With anti-choicers setting the terms of debate, pro-choice advocates have had to grapple with the utility of confronting these groups head-on … [To this author, “confronting these groups head-on” means shouting us down and running us off the stage.]
A new generation of anti-choice groups is establishing a reputation for itself on Canadian campuses, with increasingly visible tactics that many pro-choice activists call discriminatory, harassing and hateful. [Note the significance of “harassing” and “hateful” labels, which could allow pro-life speech to be censored under Canadian law.]
The university administration is barraged with phone calls and emails calling for the event to be shut down on the grounds that it amounts to harassment and is offensive to women … Shortly after the event begins, a group of about 10 women and their allies enter the room, chanting and blocking the projector with the intent of disrupting the presentation. [The context of this passage is an explicit endorsement of censorship and bully tactics.]
… the CCBR legally constitute hate speech by inciting hatred towards those women who have or support the right to have abortions, and should thus be restricted in order to prevent the harassment of women. [Note the call for censorship.]
Unfortunately, it seems that the freedom of expression of protesters is not taken as seriously at McGill as hateful speech … [Note the dismay over lack of censorship.]
Pro Life Training Academy at the University of Georgia
PLTA Faculty Member Toby Tatum at UGa.
It’s Sunday afternoon and we are conducting our Pro Life Training Academy (PLTA) at the University of Georgia (UGa). We are encouraged by the students and community members who are attending this training.
PLTA students learn how to articulate and respectfully defend the pro-life position. On Wednesday and Thursday, PLTA students will have a unique opportunity for on-the-job training by helping staff our GAP display at Tate Plaza in the heart of the UGa campus.
In addition to training pro-life advocates, the PLTA seeks to unite pro-lifers behind common goals of education, training, and outreach. We appreciate so much the efforts of the Georgia Right to Life, Athens Area Right to Life, UGa Students for Life, the Athens Pregnancy Center, and the University Church (in Athens) to make this event a huge success!
For more information, go to www.facebook.com/ProLifeTraining.
Met Samuel Armas last night
Samuel Armas shaking the doctor's hand
Great time at the Georgia Right to Life (GRTL) REACH fundraising dinner last night in Atlanta. I’m in Georgia this week laying the groundwork for our Pro Life Training Academy (PLTA) and Pro Life on Campus (GAP) events at the University of Georgia and Kennesaw State University in November. GRTL is partnering with CBR on all of this work. GRTL President Dan Becker featured our cooperative efforts in his remarks last night.
Samuel Armas shaking my hand
Also in attendance was Samuel Armas and his family. You may remember when Samuel exploded on the national scene back in 1999, when he reached out of his mother’s womb and grabbed the finger of his surgeon. The photo became an instant sensation.
Now Samuel is 10 years old. He and his parents were in attendance last night, and I was thrilled to shake Samuel’s hand. (Wouldn’t you know it, I shook the wrong hand—the un-famous one—but what the heck.) Fox News recently ran a story on Samuel, who is now 10 years old!
Pro Life on Campus at Obama’s Rally at Ohio State
"Choice" signs greet Obama ralliers.
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.
Christian love or perversion of mercy?
Gregg Cunningham
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!
The science of when life begins
Here’s a great video from our friends at the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. Stephanie Gray presents medical information on the beginning of life. She also describes why it is illogical to hold the position that preborn children may be killed because they are smaller, less developed, more dependent, and/or simply living in a different environment than the rest of us.
Abortion advocates deny science
7-week embryo
In recent weeks, we are seeing a kind of science denial by abortion advocates in Missouri that is normally the prevue of Darwinists. The state legislature has recently passed a bill that actually recognizes the scientific fact that life begins at conception.
Senate Bill 793, which adds new regulations to the state’s 24-hour informed consent law for abortions, states that “the life of each human being begins at conception.” It also declares that “abortion will terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being.” (Source 1) (Source 2)
As you can imagine, that law didn’t sit too well with pro-aborts. So, taking a page out of the Darwinist playbook, they claimed that the scientific evidence (confirmed by many medical textbooks on prenatal development) isn’t really science at all. It is religion. I’m not kidding.
But of course, what else could they say? After all, they can’t admit that the facts are true. The implications of the facts are so horrifying, they must be denied, no matter what.
(Click here for a paper that summarizes statements from medical school textbooks, scientists, and even pro-abortion philosophers, all confirming that life begins at conception.)
People deny science when it challenges their own religion or some other deeply-held belief. Did you watch “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”? If you didn’t, shame on you. BTW, if every child in your church doesn’t see it once a year, then shame on you. (Yes, I said you.)
Anyway, in this movie, the great Darwinist Richard Dawkins is interviewed by intelligent design (ID) proponent Ben Stein. The idea of an intelligent Designer/Creator is so horrifying to Dawkins, any evidence for it must be denied or ignored, no matter what. Darwinists must pretend that such evidence isn’t really science at all. It is religion.
But Dawkins has a problem because Darwinism can’t begin to explain how highly complex cells got here in the first place. Cells are vastly more complex than was ever imagined, and Darwinism just doesn’t explain it. So Dawkins has to speculate. In a moment of candor not likely to be repeated anytime soon, he suggests that one possible explanation might be that space aliens planted cellular life here on Earth. I’m not lying; watch the movie.
Lemme get this straight. According to Dawkins, it’s entirely plausible that we all evolved from the protozoa that came from the bowels of some space alien who stopped off at Planet Earth for a potty break on his way to the Delta Quadrant. But it’s NOT plausible that we were created by a Creator God. Riiiiight.
And they say this stuff with a straight face.
