The "Genocide Awareness Project" and "Reproductive Choice Campaign" caused
quite a stir at the UAlbany campus.
Albany’s "College Standard Magazine" teamed
with the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform to bring their billboard size ad campaign
to the school’s
campus center.
The two-day display showed explicit pictures of the Holocaust, Sept. 11, and
abortion. The posters outraged students and attendees.
Shelly Shapiro, the Director of Community Relations
for the United Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York said, "Were
horrified at such a huge display which basically incites hatred. Some extremist
group has decided to
exploit the memory of victims of all genocides, including holocaust and racism
and desecrate those victims for purpose of inciting hatred against women."
I have mentioned before that I think it is a mistake to equate abortion with
genocide since abortionist are equal opportunity destroyers and will perform
their services along as the person puts up the money and they are not concerned
about the race of the women. Mass murder it is and it should be called such
and separated from purposeful murder of a race of people or culture. Though
how this display could cause hatred against women is beyond me.
Some students felt they were being emotionally manipulated and decided to
offer alternatives.
Meaghan Carroll, VOX voices of Planned Parenthood said, "We’re
offering alternative displays and information about abortion rights the history
of choice
and the issue of faith in choice."
An employee at the Center for Bioethical Reform said the disturbing images
are all part of the campaign.
Fletcher Armstrong said, "They object to the fact
that we’re showing the truth about abortion here on this campus, they find
things to complain
about. One thing they don’t like is abortion is a horrible act of genocide
comparable to other forms of genocide."
Skidmore students also came to voice their opposition,
in addition to UAlbany’s Women’s Studies Department who organized a "DIE IN" to
represent victims of back alley abortions before abortion was legalized.
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They should have "DIE IN" for the amount of women who have died from
legalized abortion, but it would take thousands of women to stage this accurately and to
reflect this reality. Dr. Bernard Nathenson, the former abortion doctor and
co-founder of NARAL, has stated that he made those number up from thin air
about back alley abortions. The book LIME
5 documents some of these deaths of women from abortionists. This is a
hard statistic to accurately track since these deaths are just recorded
as pregnancy related regardless of the circumstances.
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I am halfway through the book “Articles of Faith” by Cynthia Gorney. I have trouble reading more than one chapter a week because I am so horrified by much of what I read. This is a history of the successful movement to make abortion on demand widely available and totally legal. It is also a history of the movement to oppose abortion. It is focused in one state, but really capsulizes nation-wide events of 1968 to 1990 concerning abortion. I was 13 in 1968, and I can remember the first time I heard the word abortion on the radio. I asked my mom what it meant, and she told me it meant stopping a pregnancy, and I said “you mean killing the baby?”. My mom was and is pro-choice, and she and I have not discussed abortion since 1972. Anyhow, what I find appalling (and really hadn’t known despite living through that era) is that one of the biggest abortion support groups was a loose coalition of illegal abortion providers and Protestant and Jewish clergy – the “Clergy Consultation Service”. I am beginning to think that Satan focused his energy on corrupting clergy – Catholic priests through sex scandals and other clergy through support of abortion and other immorality. It is truly frightening.
I’m always interested in the choice of words used by those in favor of life and those in favor of abortion. While pro-lifers strive for accuracy, “pro-choicers” strive for obfuscation and euphemisms.
Above, your mother used “stopping the pregnancy,” as if it could be held in stasis, the baby ceasing to grow and just swimming around waiting for someone to hit the “play” button so everything can start moving again. You hit the nail on the head at the tender age of 13 because you knew – in your childlike innocence – what was really going on. You go, girl. Even the word “choice” is a euphemism for “death.”
What’s so frightening about the truth?