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During the League’s Face the Truth Tour yesterday in Evanston, Illinois, I took a few moments to offer a suggestion on how to respond when people object to this particular pro-life campaign. My assistant Matt shot this footage and edited the video.
Malachi sign along Rand Road in Arlington Heights, IL
Picture-perfect weather provided ideal conditions for the 40 pro-life activists who took part in the Pro-Life Action League’s Face the Truth Day on May 19 in Chicago’s Northwest Suburbs.
The first stop of the day was at Arlington Heights Road and Rand Road in Arlington Heights, which had been one of the busiest sites on the July 2009 Tour. Arlington Heights has also been a hot spot for pro-life activism recently after local activists learned that abortionist Vinod Goyal has sought permission to move one of his abortion facilities into a medical office building in the community.
Thanks to the great turnout in Arlington Heights, all of the large graphic signs were deployed, as well as numerous hand-held “Stop Abortion Now” signs.
Do you think activism like this hurts the pro-life movement?
You know how sometimes you read something, then you have to read it again, and then yet again before you think you understand the author?
No, I wasn’t trying to read G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy (yet again) or Pope Benedict’s latest encyclical (which I’m determined to get through—but that’s another story).
This time I was reading an opinion column in the Daily Herald by Kathleen Parker, titled “Abortion’s Route to Rare.”
There are some particularly mixed up parts of her column, such as:
My own view, both pro-life and pro-choice, has been that abortion truthfully presented would eliminate itself, or vastly reduce its numbers.
![Which of these pictures do you find disgusting? [Photo by Dan Gura]](http://prolifeaction.org/pix/2010/disgusting.jpg "disgusting1")
Which of these pictures do you find disgusting? [Photo by Dan Gura]
It happened again this week. Someone pulled up to a small group of pro-lifers who were holding signs along a busy street to yell at them.
He rolled down his window and said,
I have some “free speech” for you. I don’t have an opinion on abortion either way. But I have children. And those horrible pictures are disgusting! My kids would be so upset by them. You shouldn’t be out here. (etc, etc, etc)
My dad, holding a picture of Jesus asked, “You think Jesus is disgusting?”
I turned my picture so it would be facing him, since he was pointing my direction. In disbelief I asked, “This? This is a picture of a baby!” Another woman piped up, “Why would a child be scared of a baby picture?” [Continue reading ...]