Pro-Lifers must be “approachable and trustworthy”

Pro-Lifer John Cavanaugh–O’Keefe explains why pro-lifers have to be supportive and compassionate to pregnant women:

“Preborn children have the same rights to protection that anyone else has, but their protection must take into account their unique relationship with their mothers. It is not possible to harm a preborn child without going through the mother. It is not possible to hug the child without hugging the mother. A preborn child isolated from his or her mother is a theoretical construct, not reality. To protect the child, you have to deal with the mother.

If the means you use to protect a child make the mother turn away from you in fear, you have failed. Violent means are likely to do just that.

If the means you use to protect a child made her wonder whether you are approachable and trustworthy, you have failed.”

John Cavanaugh–O’Keefe Emmanuel, Solidarity: God’s Act, Our Response (2000) 32-33

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Activist: clinics try to make abortion “nice”

Pro-life author and activist John Cavanaugh–O’Keefe writes:

“The abortion clinic personnel make a great effort to see to it that abortion appears to be gentle and polite and nice. They surround it with cookies and soda, with lounge chairs and a cheery decor. But the façade is destructive, not only of the truth, but also of the women who, even if they have the abortion, still will desperately need at some point to come to grips with what they have done. In due time, they must see clearly that they are parents and that their children are dead.”

John Cavanaugh–O’Keefe Emmanuel, Solidarity: God’s Act, Our Response (2000) 26

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Mark Crutcher on “likeable” pro-lifers

Pro-life activist Mark Crutcher told the following anecdote:

“Years ago, I saw a television interview with a man who was asked his opinion on abortion. He said he was conflicted on the issue itself, but that he found the pro-choice people to be more likable than the pro-life people. He went on to say, “So if I have to choose one or the other, I guess I’m pro-choice.”

We are fooling ourselves if we think this man’s attitude is uncommon.”

Mark Crutcher Siege: Pro-Life Field Manual (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Inc., 2015) 75-76

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Nancy Pelosi asked about killing a baby inside or outside the womb

From Rev. Frank Pavone, president of Priests for Life:

“In a June 13, 2013, press briefing, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic leader, was asked, “What is the moral difference between what Dr. Gosnell did to a baby born alive at 23 weeks and aborting her moments before birth?” Pelosi refused to answer the question and chose instead to mock the reporter who asked it. Shamefully, she then took refuge in assertions about how seriously she practices her Catholic faith.

I wrote an open letter to Pelosi, asking her to stop misrepresenting the Catholic faith. I requested that she answer that abortion question honestly, admitting, if necessary, that she simply does not accept what the Church teaches. Tens of thousands of others signed the letter. Pelosi responded with contempt, saying that the letter was not “intellectual” in its approach but “hysterical.” And in my subsequent response, I pointed out that the beginning of an intellectual approach to this discussion is to answer the simple question that started the discussion…

The fact is that we all have to answer the question that was posed to Pelosi: what is the difference between killing a child just before birth or right afterward?

There is no way out of the question for the abortion industry or for any of us.”

Rev. Frank Pavone Abolishing AbortionHow You Can Play a Part in Ending the Greatest Evil of Our Day (Nashville, Tennessee: Nelson Books, 2015) 157

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A message to the Yoga community and abortion

Jeannine Parvati Baker talks about New Age yogis and abortion:

“Allow me first to first turn my attention to the yoga community wherein it is all too common for women yogis (yoginis) to abort their babies …

I have watched many of my yogini sisters procure abortions knowing that it was breaking the primary vow of ahimsa (harmlessness) that yogis make. They justified their actions with the confused philosophy of reincarnation and “free will.” In other words, they said that the soul knew “on some level'” what it was getting by choosing incarnation into a woman who did not want to be a mother just yet. Therefore “on some level'” the fetus being aborted accepts being returned back into the cosmos. Some yoginis have even had the hubris to state that their unwanted fetus was a “very advanced soul” who only needed to be incarnated for a very short time to complete its karma here on this plane of existence. Adding insult to injury they go on to state that they have done it a service by providing the soul with a temporary body to “finish up.” Maybe their unwanted baby was a samurai in a past life and by being aborted (by dilation and curretage), it is completing its own slicing karma (!) I am constantly amazed at the cleverness of the mind in justifying its own desires. Calling an aborted fetus a “high soul” not needing full deliverance on earth is an example of confused yoga.

Yoga clearly considers abortion killing–yet guru after guru condones abortion through metaphysical belief in reincarnation. “We only go around a thousand times so may may as well grab as much personal enlightenment as we can!” The most liberating belief in some ways is that this is our past life–with that philosophy we will do what is best for life now and not await our next chance, next lifetime….

How ironic it is that some yoginis will forego the eating of meat out of compassion for animals, yet this same sensitive compassion is not extended to unwanted babies…Having an abortion in order “to get my spiritual act together” is self-defeating”

from Pro-Life Feminism: A Spiritual Perspective

Jeannine Parvati Baker “THE SWORD WAS NOT WITH THE GODDESS: A SPIRITUAL MIDWIFE ADDRESSES THE NEED TO HEAL ABORTION” Feminism & Nonviolence Studies Fall 1998 – Special Issue on Spiritual Diversity

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“Pro-Choice” 8th graders hear pro-life message

From a woman who spoke about prolife issues in schools:

“… We discussed abortion and euthanasia, and I noticed that many of the 8th graders who labeled themselves “pro-choice” were horrified when they learned the truth about these practices. It made me realize how much the “pro-choice” position is against human reason and how much it relies on tired rhetoric to succeed.”

Erin Campell, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, interning with the Life Legal Defense Foundation in Napa, California

Lifeline, Fall 2002 Quoted in Intecon Abortion: Pros and Cons (Bloomington, IN  AuthorHouse, 2004)

The Lifeline article did not reveal what information Campbell gave to the 8th grader’s, but below are some pictures that show the reality of abortion.

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Before abortion

 

 

 

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After abortion

 

 

 

 

How many “pro-choicers” know the reality of what is shown above?

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