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Mixed Nuts at Tennessee Tech University
Abortion photos spark reactions at Tennessee Tech. Without pictures, abortion is easy to ignore.
There were some weird reactions to the abortion pictures at Tennessee Tech, but there were also some good ones.
Not much of an evangelist. Dillon said, “I’m a Christian and I believe child killing is wrong, but I believe it is wrong for me to tell anyone what they should believe.” (Dillon must have forgotten that part in the Bible where it says to stand against child sacrifice.)
Rephrasing the question. “I’m a Christian and I believe abortion is wrong, but if we outlawed this option what options would we have to offer?” Trevor asked. Tony told him, “The option you are talking about keeping in place is child killing, so do you believe we should keep child killing legal?” Answer: “Well if you say it that way, ‘No.’” (We do say it that way.)
What kind of Bible study if he running? “I’m a Christian and I do Bible studies but I believe abortion should be legal.” (We wonder what Bible he is studying.)
Understanding the gravity. Andrew said, “I was raised pro-life and have never wavered. But I never understood the gravity of the act until I saw your pictures. I cannot let this go. These pictures make my beliefs more real and more heart-breaking.”
International support. “Thanks for what you are doing,” Truedor from Napal said.
Evil begets more evil. “I was sexually abused since the time I was 4, and if it weren’t for abortion, I would not be here.”
Can we undo what God has done? Bassom from Egypt said, “I agree with you; abortion is wrong. But what if the child is severely ill?” CBR volunteer Tony replied, “Do you believe in God?” Bassom: “Yes.” Tony: “Well if God is the giver of life and He is the one that opens and closes the womb, then should we kill what he gives?” Bassom: “No.”
A rather peculiar girl. “The UN doesn’t specifically say that abortion is genocide so it cannot be genocide… It is OK to kill babies up to 4 months if the mother cannot handle the baby or if the baby has become a financial burden. … ALL babies should be aborted to reduce the world population to nothing.”
Bill Boyer asked her if she was will to sign up for the depopulation suicide squad. To that she had to pause and think. She finally mused, “I’d rather be dead than in school.” But then she said, “I’m studying medicine so that I can work for Planned Parenthood one day. I enjoy killing babies.”
She might need a psych evaluation before she starts her medical career. More than that, she needs our prayers.
Perspectives of the abused. An older man came to the child abuse picture and just stopped to look. He told Mik’aela that he had been abused by 3 different people. “But to abuse a child who can’t even run away or anything is the worst. Thank you for being here.”
Pro-Life on Campus in Tennessee and North Carolina
Newbie staff member Mik’aela Raymond went on her first GAP tour the Spring of 2018. She did great!
In the Spring semester, we focused our GAP efforts on North Carolina and Tennessee. We traveled to Appalachian State, the University of Tennessee, Tennessee Tech, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Greensboro.
North Carolina is especially important, because it is one of the most important swing states in our region.
These are all schools we have visited before, but once every year or two is not too often. New students come and go, so we always get a new audience. Also, even when we get repeat customers, they often say that we move the needle on their opinions with each visit.
With your $upport, we will get abortion photos on every campus, every year. With that much exposure to reality, it will be almost impossible for pro-abortion professors to lie to our students any longer.
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Hope and healing at Tennessee Tech
Letter on our Free Speech Board, written to Paiten and Jesse by a sister who misses them deeply.
by Debbie Picarello
At Tennessee Tech, Angie (not her real name) wrote a note to her two siblings, both aborted years ago (photo at right).
Angie learned about them when her mother went to work at a CPC, and through that experience, told Angie about the children she had aborted years ago.
Angie was crushed by the news. She had always begged her mom for a sibling. At some point, the siblings were named Paiten and Jesse. Angie has even written letters to them. She looks forward to meeting them in heaven.
I gave Angie a Deeper Still pamphlet.
Just a few days later, a post-abortive woman came to one of our Deeper Still healing retreats. A few weeks after that, this same woman attended a Deeper Still training seminar. We wound up in the same sharing group, and I heard this woman tell her story. It sounded so familiar.
This woman was none other than Angie’s mother!
It was one of the most beautiful God surprises I’ve had to this day! God certainly knows how to connect people! Thank you, CBR supporters, for making this encounter possible! Angie’s Mom will now help other women heal from their abortions!
Debbie Picarello volunteers with CBR and with Deeper Still, a post-abortion healing ministry.
Gems at Tennessee Tech University
CBR Southeast Director Fletcher Armstrong speaks with students at Tennessee Tech.
The new Centennial Plaza is a beautiful new venue at Tennessee Tech. While there, we dug up a few gems to share. (Don’t worry; no bricks were harmed in the mining of these gems!)
Appropriate response. A female history major commented, “I have seen GAP a couple of times.” When asked how she responded the first time she saw the pictures, she replied, “I went to the bathroom and threw up.”
Ready for battle. An engineering student remarked, “We may have different views on the subject, but I appreciate that we can sit here and have a civil conversation about this. You are clearly passionate and well informed.” Indeed.
Happy. A male student welcomed us. “I’m glad you are here. People say it is too graphic, but it is what it is. People need to see it.”
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Angry. Three female students, at different times during the day, said essentially the same thing. “This breaks my heart and I get so mad when my friends don’t get it. How can they not see it?”
Sad, but bold. A female student in a medical major spoke of her brother’s child, who was aborted by his girlfriend aborted without his knowledge. She said, “I could have been an aunt. And that relationship between them is also over.” She took a photo of GAP and said, “I’ll post this on Facebook and see how many friends I lose!”
Selfish couple. She tried to argue against the humanity of the unborn human child. When that failed, she said, “Why should I have to carry a baby I don’t want, just so I can give it away by adoption?”
He didn’t say much. As long as he can get sex without responsibility, why should he care?
Civil. Student Carl said, “I really appreciate that I can sit here and have a civil discussion with you even if I’m pro-choice and you are pro-life.”
Barely alive. A male engineering student said, “My mom was raised Muslim and became pregnant with me right before she and my father divorced. Her family wanted her to abort me, but she chose to give me life. It is so eye opening to see these images and think of how easily that could have been me. My life was decided by a yes or no question.”
Another close call. A female history student remarked, “I have a niece who is almost a year old, and she is my whole world. I look at these images and think about how that was her just a little while ago. How could someone destroy something so precious?”
Pro-Life on Campus at Tennessee Tech University
The Genocide Awareness Project returned to Tennessee Tech University.
CBR brought the Genocide Awareness Project back to Tennessee Tech University (TTU) in September. TTU was a quiet school, with a rating of only 1 out of 10 moonbats.
Not many moonbats in Tennessee. What can we say? This has two beneficial effects. First, we don’t get beat up as much. Second, students vulnerable to moonbatism … Is moonbatism a word? … Anyway, by staying calm, they have a better chance to see the signs and reflect on their meaning.
This was our third trip to TTU. We went in 2013 with Choice signs and 2015 with a full GAP display.
The Baby Brigade
A UNC Greensboro student takes a GAP brochure. Who could resist?
by Jacqueline Hawkins
Sometimes at our GAP display, you will see a gaggle of babies and toddlers, and also moms with strollers. These are members of our “Baby Brigade.” They make a subtle but powerful pro-life statement.
They change the dynamic in several ways. First, students are less likely to become verbally abusive. No one likes to use obscene language in front of 2-year olds.
Second, students can see the contrast between death (the stark truth of child murder) and life (the end result when pre-born babies are spared). When students see women with their own children romping about in the green grass, motherhood doesn’t seem so scary; it looks inviting.
The babies soften the blow of the images. Christy McKinney, one of the mothers in the Brigade, spoke with a freshman at Tennessee Tech for an hour. The pictures hit home for this young woman, because she had recently learned that her mother wanted to abort her when she was six months along. She was very hurt by this and became tearful during the conversation. Christy let the student hold her 6-month old son, and that seemed to ease her pain.
Are you a mom with babies in tow? Would you like to join the Baby Brigade and make a subtle but powerful pro-life statement during GAP? Call or e-mail us and we’ll keep you abreast of volunteer opportunities!
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
Survivor’s pain
Those who survive abortion suffer a unique, tragic pain. A student wrote on our free speech board, “I lost a brother and sister to abortions. Remember Hitler’s Final Solution? Same result.”
by Jacqueline Hawkins
As a newbie pro-life missionary, I didn’t quite grasp the emotional damage done to abortion survivors. I had, perhaps foolishly, assumed that children who just missed the slaughter house by a last-minute decision would be happy that their parents chose life. I figured they might have a closer relationship with their parents because of their ultimate, life-affirming decision. That’s a nice thought, right?
But given the testimonies of a few students, I’m starting to realize that things aren’t all happily-ever-afters, smiles and giggles. The fact that your mother and father — the people that gave you life and hold the sacred duty of protecting and nurturing you — almost killed you … Well, it’s a revelation that pierces the heart and soul, no matter what the parents’ life-affirming sentiment may be now.
At Tennessee Tech, a young woman told volunteer Christy McKinney that she had recently learned that her mother had wanted to abort her at 6 months. She felt very hurt and became tearful at times during the conversation. The only reason she was alive was because her grandmother stepped in and vouched for her. The pictures really hit home for her. Who can understand the pain and betrayal this girl felt, besides another survivor?
At Wake Technical Community College, a young woman stared at the picture of the first-trimester victim. “That was almost me,” she told CBR’s Bill and Jeanette Schultz. “But it was a botched abortion and I survived.” The student was not angry about the photos, but she was extremely angry and bitter about what her mother tried to do to her. This wasn’t a change of heart at the last minute. Her mother made her choice, the hit man was hired and the execution was completed. By the grace of God, the young woman escaped with her life.
Throughout the conversation, the girl never smiled and her demeanor was one of disgust and hardness. She told Bill and Jeanette that she has no relationship at all with her mother and did not want one, ever. They spoke with her about the need for forgiveness — if only for her own peace of mind. On this day, it was not possible for her. However, her pain and anger gave her empathy for her suffering brothers and sisters. As she departed, she said she would never want this to happen to anyone and that it was good that we were there with the pictures.
How sickening it must be for survivors to live in a society that promoted and even now celebrates their own attempted murder.
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
Reaching out to pro-aborts on campus
Engaging the pro-aborts at GAP, because we respect the dignity of every human person.
by Jacqueline Hawkins
They curse. They celebrate baby-killing. Some would say they bask in the glow of the fires of Hell in a self-righteous orgy. But they are still human beings — still people made in the image and likeness of God. They deserve respect and intellectual engagement. We keep this in mind when we talk to pro-abort demonstrators at GAP.
Volunteer Marie Bastone approached the die-hard pro-aborts at Tennessee Tech University. One of them that her church taught about the inherent human dignity of every individual. Marie readily agreed. Given they co-ed’s particular schooling in the faith, they had common ground!
On that note, Marie gently spoke to her and her friends about the humanity of the preborn child, hence their inherent human dignity that no one can bestow or revoke because it is inherent. They didn’t seem to know what to say. They had been intellectually engaged as equals and couldn’t find a flaw in Marie’s logic. To top it all off, to show them that they weren’t just a bunch of (poor) arguments with pants on, but actual people with value, Marie asked each of them what they were studying. By the time Marie left, they clearly saw her respect. They were quieter and calmer. And they were thinking.
Marie engaged a pro-abort woman who asked if the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) aimed to make abortion illegal. To that Marie replied that laws reflect society’s values, as well as shapes them. Legality is not necessarily morality, as the history of human slavery demonstrates. Marie explained that GAP was to make abortion unthinkable by showing the results of abortion. GAP was pointing out the violence against the innocent and asked if we as a society can find a more humane and just way of dealing with unwanted pregnancies. The young woman questioned Marie for a very long time, trying to make a case for the necessary evil of legal abortion, though she did admit it was horrible. Marie remained polite, respectful and focused, asking what could possible justify the evil that abortion is. In the end, the young woman told Marie that she had not expected her to be “so rational and approachable”.
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
“A clump of cells?!”
With our prenatal development GAP sign, we show how a “clump of cells” is endowed with arms and legs and fingers and toes. Some “clump of cells.”
by Kendra Wright
At Tennessee Tech, a Middle Eastern student told me that he is Muslim and in his country, killing the unborn is just like killing a born person. But he knew very little about abortion.
He was very shocked to hear that 1.2 million die every year in this country from abortion.
He asked why people get abortions and if “not wanting” the child is a frequent justification. I confirmed that this is often the case.
I started explaining the difference between a wanted child and an unwanted child. If a child is wanted, we call it a baby. If it is unwanted, we call it a clump of cells.
He was shocked. “A clump of cells?!”
He could see right away that a baby is not just a clump of cells and calling it such is ridiculous.
Kendra Wright is a CBR project director and a regular FAB contributor.
Where would you go if you weren’t ready for birth?
Not sure you can be open-minded and “fueled with the rage of a thousand suns” at the same time. Here is an open-minded student viewing the GAP display.
Interesting comments on our website during GAP at Tennessee Tech University (TTU).
Visitor, a 22-yr-old female, said that she was fueled with “the rage of a thousand suns about how closed-minded people can be.” I wonder how open your mind must be in order to contain that much rage?
When I encounter closed-minded people, they are almost always on the political left. Why is that?
Anyway, she went on to say that abortion is “a great option for people not ready for birth.” Au contraire! When I wasn’t ready for birth, the only safe option for me was to stay right where I was.
Moms: getting children ready for birth for thousands of years.
Pro Life on Campus at Tennessee Tech University
Justin Brown explains to a group of students how abortion advocates dehumanize their intended victims. It is amazing how much influence one student can have.
This was different, but in a good way. At Tennessee Tech University (TTU), official policy allows individual students (not just student groups) to host events on campus. So when national pro-life award-winner and TTU student Justin Brown contacted us about bringing GAP, we were eager to go.
It is amazing how much influence one student can have, by God’s grace and with your support. Thank you for making our work possible!
As it turns out, every public university student has the same right that Justin exercised at TTU; their universities just don’t know it … yet. The rights of free speech and equal access to university grounds are individual rights, not group rights. They cannot be denied to an individual student simply because he hasn’t identified others willing to join him in that speech. TTU has figured this out, and they deserve credit for that.
There were some complications, however, because several TTU administrators didn’t understand their own policies. To make matters worse, they were not very cooperative when we tried to speak with them. It’s a good thing we got those issues resolved, however, because the last thing TTU wanted was for CBR to start flying airplane tow banners bearing abortion photos over their campus on a regular basis! They can ask Notre Dame what that’s like. TTU hosts many activities for high school students throughout the summer (Boys State, cheerleading camps, etc.), so the last thing they want to see is abortion photos flying overhead. Fortunately, they read their own policy manual in time, so we can save the nasty version of ourselves for somebody else.
Justin did an outstanding job of hosting GAP at TTU, and we look forward to working with him for many years to come. We set up in front of the Library, a very good location in the middle of campus.
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The GAP display and Reproductive Choice Campaign (RCC) truth trucks are a powerful combination.
Abortion Photos at Tennessee Tech University
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When funding or timing prevents us from taking our huge GAP display, we can still win hearts, change minds, and save lives by invading campus with a few “Choice” signs! Here we are at Tennessee Tech University (TTU).
This was an excellent target because TTU is another school which allows citizens to reserve space for displays, without requiring a student invitation.
On this day, we identified 5 freshmen willing to form a pro-life club on campus!
At upper-right is CBR SuperDuperVolunteer Gary Johnson, who is in a special category all his own! He is a real blessing to everywhere he goes. We just need to take him more places! That’s where your support comes in. Link here to send Gary to more places … to bless more students!
Below, Deeper Still and CBR volunteer Debbie Picarello can engage students at a very different level than Gary ever could do. Link here to help Debbie bring hope and healing to post-abortive women … and men!
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