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Our hat is off to Midland (Texas) Catholics for Life, which earlier this month put up a billboard on its property (see left) featuring graphic abortion pictures.
Not surprisingly, the billboard has been generating significant controversy, due in no small part to the fact that the billboard is located across the street from a Planned Parenthood facility that performs abortions.
The local CBS affiliate did a segment on the billboard recently, and to its credit, actually showed the images of aborted babies:
In the news report, Planned Parenthood’s Carla Holeva responds by saying:
It’s a bully type mentality. These are the same individuals that stand outside the fence and make harassing and at times – obscene – comments to our clients.
Notice that Planned Parenthood’s knee-jerk response is to launch an ad hominem attack on pro-lifers — a charge for which their spokeswoman conveniently fails to provide any supporting evidence — which, in any case, is entirely beside the point.
The news report goes on to say that Holeva “believes the images on the billboard are doctored using Photoshop and are not medically accurate.”
This calls to mind the old saying that if someone commits murder, it could very well lead to theft, breaking and entering, cheating at cards, and even fibbing.
Although one can hardly be surprised that someone speaking in an official capacity on behalf of the leading abortion provider in America would claim the images are fake, dwelling on this point is a losing tack for Planned Parenthood, as it’s plainly obvious the images are authentic.
In fact, the images used on the two-sided billboard are originally from the Center Bio-Ethical Reform — see the images on CBR’s website here and here — which is ably prepared to take legal action against those who falsely accuse them of fraudulently altering their pictures of aborted embryos and fetuses.
Does Planned Parenthood really want to go there?
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It is sad and upsetting that this is the reality of murder of innocent life in the womb looks like. But simply closing ones eyes to this unjustice will not make the reality go away. These pictures could have been any of us if our mothers had chosen to have an abortiion when they were pregnant with us in the womb. Planned Parenhood organization founders (some) wanted abortion legal in part for killing off the black race. Ask those that support abortion is they would support their own mothers having an abortion on them. Only 50/50 chance of being alive but a 100% chance that won’t have all limbs or other body parts if happen to survive a failed abortion! Just a fact!!
Posted August 16, 2010 at 4:40 pm
If my mother had chosen abortion I would have zero awareness of that or anything else. To raise that as a concept is emotive nonsense.
Posted August 16, 2010 at 6:33 pm
“If my mother had chosen abortion I would have zero awareness of that or anything else. To raise that as a concept is emotive nonsense.”
A believer knows that a soul created at conception will live forever. Even tho the body is destroyed by abortion, the issue is hardly “emotive nonsense”!
Posted August 16, 2010 at 8:55 pm
“Well, I killed Joe in his sleep. I doubt he felt any pain and Joe didn’t have anyone who cared about him anyways. To care at all about Joe being dead is emotive nonsense.”
A bit twisted.
Posted August 17, 2010 at 12:37 am
You’re not comparing apples with apples Pat.
Posted August 17, 2010 at 2:30 am
Yes I am.
Posted August 17, 2010 at 2:31 pm
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