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Pro-Life Tour Returns to Plainfield Friday

The Pro-Life Action League will bring its ‘Face the Truth’ tour to busy intersections in Plainfield, Joliet, Shorewood.

 

For the seventh year, the Pro-Life Action League will return to Plainfield with its “Face the Truth” tour, with demonstrators standing at heavily traveled intersections holding up sometimes graphic signs to share their anti-abortion message.

The tour be at the intersection of Route 59 and Caton Farm Road from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, July 6.

The demonstration will be the group’s third stop in the Joliet area on Friday. Demonstrations are also set from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at Jefferson Street and Larkin Avenue in Joliet, and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Route 59 and Black Road in Shorewood.

The Pro-Life Action League is known for its outspoken opposition to abortion, including demonstrations featuring often graphic images of aborted fetuses. The group also takes part in prayer vigils and what it refers to as “sidewalk counseling” for women and couples outside abortion clinics. 

Members of St. Mary Immaculate Church’s Knights of Columbus Good Shepherd Council will host the Pro-Life Action League during its stop in Plainfield, offering a luncheon for volunteers from 1:20 to 2:30 p.m. Friday.

Knights of Columbus member Ted Castro Sr. said warning signs will be located three-quarters of a mile before the demonstration site to alert motorists to the graphic abortion images.

“The Pro-Life Action League wants to show the realities of what happens to an aborted baby,” Castro said.

A common objection to the Face the Truth demonstrations comes from parents who do not want their small children to see images of aborted fetuses. The group’s website offers the following response to concerns regarding children seeing the signs:

While they may find the pictures disturbing as they pass by, we see no evidence that any real harm is done. In fact, a child who sees the truth about abortion may be spared grave harm later in life by avoiding any involvement with abortion.

Castro said he doesn’t foresee any traffic issues, and believes motorists will have ample time to turn around to avoid the signs if that’s their choice.

But not all the signs will be graphic, Castro stressed. Demonstrators will also display images of beautiful babies, he said.

“My wife makes some beautiful signs,” Castro said. “There’s going to be a lot of good signs … They ain’t all bad.”

Anyone who would like to volunteer as a demonstrator is invited to meet up with Pro-Life Action League members at any of the local Face the Truth tour stops.

Castro said volunteers will be given a hat or T-shirt and a sign to hold. The group is also prepared for the expected high temperatures, with plenty of water to pass out to demonstrators.

Related Topics: Face the Truth Tour, Knights Of Columbus, Pro-LIfe Action League, abortion, and pro-life

Patterson

11:30 am on Thursday, July 5, 2012

There are two daycares on the corner of Caton Farm and 59 - how do we avoid the protestors while trying to pick up our children? How do I explain the graphic posters to my 5 year old? The pictures are as bad as a horror movie which we wouldn't allow 5 year olds to watch, so why should we allow them to stand in the middle of a busy intersection and wave them around?

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Tim

12:11 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

This is what is so great about freedom of speech...

People can see for themselves how selfish and misguided this 'religious group' is with their own eyes.

You will notice they aren't holding up any pictures of the hundreds of thousands of men women and children killed from the religious crusades....oops, I mean 'wars' we are involved in.

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randy crawford

2:17 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

If you were being attacked by an ax-murderer, would you want to be ignored, or would you want the alarm to be sounded and someone to come save you from vivisection and dismemberment? Helpless innocent babies deserve protection. And the vile nature of abortion is due to the butchery doctors, not the people who are spreading the truth about what they do-- as can also be seen at 100abortionpictures.com, abortionno.org, or just google 'abortion pictures' to see the truth. Ignorance is bliss only when the chopping isn't happening to your body.

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Logansdad

2:22 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

"And the vile nature of abortion is due to the butchery doctors"

Wrong, the vile nature of abortion is due to the fact that there are women out there that want the procedure done. If the doctors weren't available, these women would find a way to have the procedure done.

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randy crawford

2:49 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

The desire to do evil does not justify the evil. If someone wants to kill you badly enough, they could find a way. Would that justify your untimely demise, just becase somebody 'wanted the procedure done?'

MidwestGal

12:04 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

You drive another way. These signs should not be allowed. No 5year old can comprehend this! It's a matter of people trying to make a statement and raise awareness, but they do not have the intelligence to realize they are going about it wrong. You should EDUCATE, share and pray, but what good is it to terrify small children to get your message across? I am sure glad the Catholic church (St. Mary's) is getting involved - many priests are the gold standard of ethics in the community. Maybe people should show posters of their gruesome, horrible decisions?

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Plainfield Ind

3:41 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

These signs should be allowed. It is a simple freedom of speech and right to protest. Freedom of speech is in place to protect unpopular speech. It is not for the discussion of hot weather. We already have enough of our rights taken away over the last decade. Take the airport for example......you have no protection under the 4th amendment of search and seizure. The TSA can do whatever they please and you the citizen has no course of action.

Julie Ferenzi

12:16 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

It looks like the times of the demonstration will have little impact for pickup and drop off times for families in the area that use the daycare facilities. It looks like they start after and end before most people would be picking up or dropping off their kids.

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Jerry

12:20 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

You know, when another group of protesters, the Westboro Baptist Church, was protesting at military funerals there was a grass roots movement where folks who felt differently came together to form a shoulder-to-shoulder flag line blocking the grieving family from the view of the protesters. When those protesters wanted to shout and scream and get interview time on local TV, there would be the roar of motorcycle engines reving to drown them out. I'm thinking those who feel strongly about this issue could accomplish such a movement. The Pro Life Action League has a right to demonstrate, and others who don't agree have a right to counter-protest.

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Olddeegee

12:21 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Caton Farm and 59? Barely Plainfield. There should be a Jo-field Patch.

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Jerry

12:25 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Really...you should let it go.

Stephanie G.

12:25 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

I'm glad they have the warning signs. In the past I haven't seen those and have been forced to attempt to explain the graphic pictures to my preschool aged children. I believe in free speech and do not support abortion, but I'm torn here. I couldn't sponsor an anti-pornography sign at a major intersection if it depicted nudity because that is not considered free speech. I find these signs to be much more graphic and much more disturbing.

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Jake

12:30 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

These people take it way over the line. If you dont like abortions dont have one.

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randy crawford

2:18 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

If you don't like abortion pictures, don't look at them.

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Logansdad

2:26 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Randy, the same message can be said to you. If you don't like abortions, don't have one.

If you don't want your spouse to have one, then you better make sure she doesn't get pregnant.

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randy crawford

2:52 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Logansdad finally had an intelligent thought. He realizes that if people don't want to face a pregancy, they shouldn't cause one. That realization is the beginning of a sense of responsiblity. Congratulations! It's also known as 'exercising self control.'

MidwestGal

12:55 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

I think all of us are for freedom of speech and the right to intelligently protest. Showing graphic images is just going for the shock value, nothing else. Anyone who is thinking of abortion will not be persuaded by a sign. They instead could use counseling, assistance and love during a dire time. Agreed Tim...."People can see for themselves how selfish and misguided this 'religious group' is with their own eyes"....! I'd never do this in Joliet either....too much violence already, who wants to attract possibly more angry people?

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randy crawford

2:21 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Wrong. We get people all the time saying "Thanks for the pictures. I (or my sister, etc.) now knows what abortion is, and is cancelling their abortion mill appointment." Also, people stop by with kids to show us 5 or 6 or 7 years later whose life we saved. They are the most appreciative of all. You may not have the ethics or compassion to save your own child from a gruesome death, but plenty of decent people out there save their kids when the abortion pictures educate them about what abortion actually is.

Rose

1:54 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

My 7 yr. old grandson saw graphic photos of abortion many yrs. ago. Of course at 1st he was shocked and a bit frightened. My daughter remained calm and explained to him in the best way she could that this is a sad fact of what goes on at Planned Parenthood in their town. He never forgot what he saw and to this day is a staunch opponent of abortion.
Too darn bad if those who advocate abortion can't face the truth. Abortion is the ugliest form of child abuse. Don't like it--then stiffen your spines and defend life!
Most of the time the young kids who see these photos are reacting to their parent's outrage. And, the majority of the time it's the parent's who can't handle the truth of what abortion really is and what it does to an unborn human being.

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Tim

2:09 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Have you taken your children to the nearest slaughterhouse to see what is in their favorite hamburger too? No? Why not?

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MidwestGal

2:39 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

I highly doubt the graphic posters he saw at 7 yrs old made him "a staunch opponent of abortion" as an adult, it was the closed minded, bitterness of his elders that taught him that. Most people don't believe in abortion, it is child abuse and there are options. Those who do believe have a right to feel that way. It's not parent outrage that the children are reacting to, it's the sad fact that cold hearted, unintelligent, out for shock value people are standing on the corner shoving something in to their eyes they are too young to see.

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LMS

3:06 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Years ago my daughter (now teenaged) saw these horrifying protestors and she still talks about the graphic pictures she couldn't help seeing as we were stuck at a red light. Her current view is that she would never choose abortion herself, but she respects others' rights. The protestors helped sway her opinion from being staunchly anti-abortion because those people were so clearly UNHINGED, and my daughter began to question the stance of anyone who would do something so horrifying. She still brings them up, and brings up the young male protestor who appeared to be only a few years older than herself who was holding a particularly graphic sign and staring down at the ground, miserable. I also question the mental health of anyone who feels graphic demonstrations regarding abortion work towards a positive end of any kind. Think about what you're trying to achieve rather than organizing a nauseating freak show of shock value intolerance.

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Logansdad

4:13 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Rose,
Abortion is not an easy decision for some mothers to make. I wonder how many pro life advocates would raise a child for the next 18 years that would otherwise be aborted. Most conservatives don't believe in abortion but they also don't want mothers on welfare and food stamps either. Why is ist that conservatives only care about children from conception to the time they are born?

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randy crawford

2:26 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Rose is right and the selfish whiners responding to her below don't understand the truth of the matter. The pictures are unpleasant for today, and educate positively for tomorrow. The guy who wants abortion protesters to support the kids saved after they are born doesn't understand the kids are the responsibility of the people who make them. He, for instance, doesn't stop by to help take care of my kids. Ditto for any of the other false arguers who try to say abortion protesters are somehow magically supposed to take care of the kids they save. In reality the responsiblity accrues to their parents in the first, middle, and last place.

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randy crawford

5:22 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012

A slaughterhouse tour would be very informative and educational. When my kids were little I took them to the cadaver lab at a local medical school to see what happens to people when they are dismembered, etc. My son became a biology major and my daughter became a doctor. Kids can learn a lot of useful information if only you try. That's why it's a good idea to teach kids the uncivilized reality of abortion, and a picture is worth a thousand words.

Rose

2:19 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Tim, an unborn child is not a hamburger. We're talking about unborn human beings here, who are allwed to be slaughtered by their own mothers and the country that legalized this atrocity.
Try telling teens and pre teens that violence is evil and doesn't belong in our society.
Then try explaining to them that killing over 50 million human beings since 1973 is o.k. Double standard.

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Tim

3:03 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Nice cherry picking there Rose.

Abortions have been documented for over 5000 years. Slightly longer than 1973.

I get that your religion gives you the dogma for you to form your opinions off of, but you are talking about the reproductive rights of other living people. Frankly, you have no standing to dictate how they are to live.

The correct term you are looking for is 'cognitive dissonance', not double standard. And of course I wouldn't expect a child to understand it, as they have not emotionally and mentally developed enough in order to do so. An adult, on the other hand, not only needs to understand the concept of cognitive dissonance, they need to be able to hold 2 contradictory views in many instances throughout their life. This necessary and beneficial ability usually develops in mid to late adolescence.

Nobody 'likes' abortions, anymore than they 'like' chemotherapy. But mentally and emotionally well-developed people understand the reasons that both of them need to exist. I imagine you would find it problematic if a christian scientist tried 'protesting' that chemotherapy was somehow 'evil', and should be illegal based on nothing but the religious beliefs of a small group of people.

It really is this simple;

If you don't want an abortion, then don't get one.
That's all you have control over, and rightly so.

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LMS

3:13 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

If the logic behind the demonstration is to use shock value images of a procedure's reality to sway opinion, then Tim's logic is sound. Hamburgers are incredibly unhealthy and contribute to more than one of our nation's top health problems. Protect your families in a more direct way than saying, "eat healthy" and take them to the slaughterhouse, using the shock value images of realism you're defending to make your argument. None of us are going to change our minds regarding pro-choice or anti-choice on this thread, but maybe we can better understand why nauseatingly graphic images have no place in our community, regardless of our differing stances.

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Logansdad

4:15 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Why is the life of a child more important than the life of an animal?Both are God's creatures. If you believe in God, you have to believe all life is precious.

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randy crawford

2:33 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Hey Tim, nice circumlocution except you are just meandering. And, if you don't like murders, don't do any. Who are you to tell anybody whether they have the right to vivisect and dismember you? "Frankly, you have no standing to dictate how they are to live." It's their private decision, isn't it-- unless you are honest enough to confess hypocrisy. According to your 'philosophy,' you don't have the right to tell the other guy what to do, so what's wrong with them exercising their interests over you? Murders have been documented for over 5000 years, so what's wrong if you are on the receiving end of one?

Jake

2:26 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Okay Rose then also explain to them why a 15 yr old rape victim will have to care for a child that she didnt want and is not prepared mentally, physically, or financially to do so, im not a fan of abortions but there is A LOT of cases where its the better option.

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Rose

3:25 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Jake,
Do you honestly believe that a 15 yr. old is mentally capable to have her unborn child brutally destroyed?
You would need to listen to the stories of women who have had abortions at a young age who now are guilt ridden and despondent over the child or children they thought were better off dead.

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Tim

3:47 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Stories like these nine women, Rose?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/oct/27/healthandwellbeing.society

Not a single one is 'guilt-ridden' or despondent about it. Including many in their teens. In fact, the common thread in the stories is how OTHERS tried to make them feel this way because of their own beliefs.

You need to realize that this 'guilt' you speak of is the tool of your religion. It is not a natural outcome of an abortion. It is only an outcome of how these women are treated by fundamentalists who wish to control their reproductive lives for them.

Similarly, guilt is the tool these protesters are using. And if you have to use emotional shock tactics to try to get your point across, it shows a very poorly thought out position. You are going to have a hard time not being pitied by people who use their rational mind, instead of the emotional abuse the protesters are trying to use and perpetuate.

Yes, I feel pity for these protesters. In their narrow, cherry picked world, they surely feel they are in the right. And if this narrow world actually existed anywhere but in their minds, they would be right. Unfortunately for them, the world is a much more complex, and beautiful place. I feel pity that they will never see the beauty in the world they are missing out on.

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Jake

3:47 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Do you honestly believe that a 15 year old should have to carry a child that was FORCED upon her? If you really believe that then clearly YOU are the one who needs to go talk to people about it first hand, being someone who has stood alongside friends in a very similar situation i can guarantee you that if they were not able to abort they would have never treated that child right, if you are okay with forcing a child to live with raising another child that was forced upon them then YOU are the sick individual. Maybe you're family or friends have never been stricken with the burden of sexual abuse and for that you should thank god because sadly in the real world its not as simple as "okay just have the baby that you beaten and abused to conceive"

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Jerry

4:05 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Jake, was abortion their only option?

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Jake

4:35 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Yes she was 16, weighed about 85 pounds soaking wet she was told by the doctors that even if she tried to keep it there is little chance of her body supporting it.

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randy crawford

2:37 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

The baby born of rape is 100% innocent. No system of justice executes the innocent. You are yourself undoubtedly the product of rape, because of your 1,024 great(9x)grandmothers, several were undoubtedly raped. If they had killed the baby, your mom or dad never would have existed, and you would not have been born either. If you really think it's OK to kill for rape, you will have to start with yourself. Until you do, your 'argument' is thus demonstrated as hollow hypocrisy with no merit whatever. AND the 15-year-old has thousands of eager families out there willing to adopt today. Just look in the phone book under 'adoption.' Further, your entire premise is bogus because of all abortions, only 2% or less are done after a rape.

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Logansdad

2:42 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

"No system of justice executes the innocent"

You are wrong with that statement. There is documentation that the US criminal justice system has executed via lethal injection innocent people.

So Randy, tell me how many babies have you raised that otherwise would have been aborted. Why do you simply wipe your hands clean after you stop a woman from having an abortion?

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randy crawford

2:58 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Logansdad- Our "system of justice" isn't a system of justice when it executes the innocent, as (yes) has happened. It's a huge failure of a flawed system, and needs fixing. The flaw in your attempted argument is that a failure in one area (executing innocent adults) doesn't justify executing innocent babies. Nice try though. I think even you can see the comparison isn't really a comparison. ////// How many saved babies have I raised? All the ones I am responsible for, which is none. Their parents are 100% responsible for the consequences of their actions, and I am zero percent responsible. To avoid your being a hypocrite, how many children of other people have you raised? Why don't you come over and help take care of my kids? Why don't you come over and mow my lawn and wash my dishes? Answer: because you know those things are my responsiblity, not yours. And, you know the kids saved are the responsiblity of the parents who made them, not my responsibility. That's why your question is phony from the beginning.

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Logansdad

3:16 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Now suddenly out system of justice needs fixing. I thought you didnt care about the criminals being put to death. Nice way to talk out both sides of your mouth.

You call me a phony, but you are the one advocating for saving a life but then having no desire to take care of it once it is born. You simply wash your hands clean of the problem. Pretend you did your good deed for the day. Well the baby is not going to take care of itself just because it was brought into this world. Someone has to take care of it. If the mother can't, shouldnt it be her decision what to with the fetus. Why are you dictating to the mother what she should do with the fetus?

You can't call me a hypcrite because I am advocating for a woman to make her own decisions. If she chooses to have an abortion, that is her decision - one that she will have to live with. I am not the one advocating for a child to be born and then having no concerns about what happens afterwards like you are doing.

Your kids are your responsibility. I am not telling you how to raise your children. Just like I wouldnt want you telling me how to raise mine. Just like I wont tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body. If you can't raise a child, you shouldn't have one in the first place.

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Logansdad

3:19 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

"And, you know the kids saved are the responsiblity of the parents who made them, not my responsibility."

As I said before, all you care about is doing your good deed for the day by preventing an abortion. If a child can't be brought into this world and raise properly, then why bring him/her into the world at all? If you are the one telling women to have their baby, you should hold some responsibility for that child. After all she listened to you and decided to keep it. You were responsible for her changing her mind.

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randy crawford

5:28 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012

Logansdad-- the issue is that people guilty of murder deserve to be executed, and people who are innocent (like babies in the womb) deserve to NOT be butchered. You are trying to fuzz that disctinction, and not very well. The only people responsible for the kids are the parents who made them. Saving a baby doesn't mean you or I are supposed to take care of the kid-- it is the parents' responsiblity. Or the rapist's for the 1% of the time kids result from rape. Do you come to my house to take care of my kids, or mow my lawn, or wash my dishes? No, because you know you are wrong. You know my dishes and my kids, and my lawn are my responsiblity. Ditto for other people's kids, which is why you aren't taking care of them either. Your hypocrisy shows more and more the more you try to deny it. Abortion is NOT an issue of a woman's body, because she isn't the one being cut on. That's why the murder moms don't feel the pain of the abortion, but their kids do. If murder moms had to have even a cubic inch cut from their arm or leg, i.e. their actual body, there would be a lot fewer abortions. Any doubts? Let's see you let abortionists ply their trade on your body. But you won't-- just your murderous hypocrisy speaking, again.

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randy crawford

5:32 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012

Logansdad-- when we talk people into saving their kids, they are very grateful they were led to realize the horror of the mistake they were about to make. Whether they say "Thanks, I'm cancelling my Planned Parenthood/abortion mill appointment" or whether they come back 5 years later with a kid we saved years ago, not once do they ask for money. On the other hand, we are offered money all the time by people grateful for our volunteer work. Only a diseased mind would try to attach a monetary value to trying to save a human life. Is there a price you are willing to pay on your head to keep yourself alive in the face of imminent butchery? Human life, and human kindness, are priceless. What is your life worth, in dollar terms?

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Logansdad

5:39 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012

"the issue is that people guilty of murder deserve to be executed, and people who are innocent (like babies in the womb) deserve to NOT be butchered. You are trying to fuzz that disctinction"

I am not trying to fuzz that distinction. You claimed to be pro-life. Taking a life is taking a life. You are not pro-life, you are just anti-abortion.

"The only people responsible for the kids are the parents who made them."

Yes and that means you have no say in what the mother does with her fetus.

"Saving a baby doesn't mean you or I are supposed to take care of the kid-- it is the parents' responsiblity."

If you want to save the baby, then you have some responsibility in raising it. You can't simply wash your hands once the baby is born. That is the trouble with Republicans/Conservatives, you are so concerned with children - children from the time they are conceived to the time they are born. After that you can care less what happens to them. Since you want the kid to be brought into this world, you do have some responsibility in what happens to it. I am sorry that you can't see that.

Most abortions are down before 12 weeks. The fetus is not fully developed and would not be able to survive outside the womb anyway. I don't understand how you can say this is a baby with arms and legs.

Jerry

2:34 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

There are a lot of compelling arguments on each side of the abortion issue. Is it possible to be pro-choice and still find these protests abhorrent? Having the right to do something doesn't make it right to do it.

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Jake

2:42 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

I agree that isnt right to do, i don't condone people getting abortions just because they don't want the kid, but if there is a medical justification or if it is the result of sexual abuse then i feel they should be able to do it

Jerry

2:50 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Jake, my comment about right and wrong wasn't aimed at abortion, but rather the protests that this specific group stage. Problem with the abortion issue is that everyone has their opinion and wants to defend it, which is fine, but no one is ever going to be talked out of their position. It becomes circular and pointless debate.

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Jake

3:49 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Yes, no matter what your viewpoints may be these demonstrations are over the line

MidwestGal

4:27 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Maybe, in their twisted way, this is also what the shock value protesters want....discussion - Discussion among onliners, among our children, among strangers (it's more productive than their signage). They just aren't necessarily going about it the correct way. I do wonder if they have ever been able to protest intelligently. Their church and religion has almost brainwashed them to believe this is the only way to go about it. Tim was not comparing babies to meat, he was asking if you would want your kids to see that image. Perhaps you don't like what Tim has to say, but it is well thought out and truthful. Rose, you seem to have some guilt about this topic. Compassion and an open mind would be better than anger and guilt.

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Rose

4:31 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Tim, my religion has nothing to do with my stance on abortion. I am a mother and a grandmother with a caring heart and moral conscience. I don't need anyone to tell me that a true woman defends her unborn as well as her born children with every ounce of her strength.
You comment that you feel pity for the people who protest that are missing out on the beauty in this world~~what about the over 50 milliion who were denied their chance to see the beauty in this world? As I said previously, double standards running rampant!
I can google sites that share stories of women who regret their abortions, such as
http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/
I was refering to heart wrenching stories I've personally heard from women . Some turned to drugs, alcohol, sex to wipe out the memory of what they had done.
Abortion goes against the natural instinct of a loving woman.
Pitiful that the pro choice do not have organizations to help women who regret their abortions~~it's the pro life people who love and care for these women and men as well.
You have a good evening and be thankful that your mother chose life.

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Tim

4:47 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

What my mother chose is none of your business. Suffice it to say, you are wrong.

If religion does not define your stance, where are you getting the idea that an unborn baby is 'alive'? Someone told you this idea at some point along the line for you to integrate it into your personal belief structure, specifically the black and white distinction that abortion = evil... always. Where did this idea come to you from?

You claim religion has nothing to do with your beliefs, and yet you post a link to a site that is run by catholic priests?

Domain Name:SILENTNOMOREAWARENESS.ORG
Registrant Name:Frank Pavone
Registrant Organization:Priests for Life
Registrant Street1:PO Box 141172
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Staten Island
Registrant State/Province:New York

This is why I feel pity. How can you claim to know what is best for everyone else, when you aren't even aware where the ideas in your own mind originally came from?

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Jake

5:17 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Tim, the problem is there is too many close minded people who haven't experienced enough of life to understand that life is not just black and white.

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MidwestGal

5:31 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Everyone has a story Rose, everyone also has regrets - big and small. People's choices are just that - their own. If they choose to drink and do drugs because of their abortion, than so be it. Excuses, excuses for every addict - that's part of the disease. No one will never know if it's truly because of abortion. This website - well, Catholics seem to think it's okay to guilt people, blame people and be holier than all others. Some of their own priests can't control themselves and their actions. Yes, an unborn baby is indeed alive, but, a woman has a right to choose in this country. God (or whatever you believe) will do the final judgement. I do not agree with aboration, but I would never condem a woman who felt there was no alternative. I can tell you do have a caring heart Rose, but a woman or 15yr old in trouble is scared and can't find a caring heart to lean on. A protester with a graffic sign isn't helping them. Terrifying a 5 year old isn't a caring heart. It makes themselves feel good, and guilt others around them. Little do they know they look like fools.

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Erica

6:55 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Rose, your right a "true woman" defends her child, born or unborn. You protect them from harm, the harm that is caused when an already immature mind is forced to grow up with the reality that their life is over at 16 because their pregnant. Adoption is an option, but is it an option for a child who's parents have said if she comes home pregnant she'll be kicked out? Is it an option for at 16 year old who will have to quit school or go to an alternative school because close-minded school administrators and teachers believe pregnancy is contagious? What right do people have to make decisions for others and what right do you have to decide who is a true woman?

Holly

6:02 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Oh yeah killing your unborn child is so righteous. It's just a "choice" not a human being. And while we're at it let's worry about explaining things to our 5 year olds who might see a poster. Just tell 'em they're lucky mom didn't find them inconvenient.

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Logansdad

6:19 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Holly
How many moms who were going to abort their babies have you talked out of the decision and then decided to raise that child?

It is so easy to say that abortion is wrong and the fetus should be born. No one however wants to take on the responsibility of raising the child. How many kids are in the foster system now?

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Holly

10:23 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Have you asked infertile couples how difficult and expensive it is to adopt? Why have so many couples turned to foreign countries? It is easy to say abortion is WRONG. I am Pro-Life. So sorry you are Pro-Infanticide. Trying to clean up your culture of death by hiding behind the label "Pro-Choice" is just moral cowardice.

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Logansdad

9:38 am on Friday, July 6, 2012

Adopting a child is not like adopting a puppy. The adoption process should be expensive in my opinion to weed out those that are unfit to raise a child and to make sure the child is going into a home with loving parents.

I am not pro-infanticide. I believe a woman has the right to choose to an abortion if that is what she wants. It is her decision - not mine, not yours. She is the one that will have to live with her decision and be judged for it.

Do you think your job as a pro-life supporter ends when a mother decides to deliver her baby, but doesnt want to raise it?

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randy crawford

5:36 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012

The baby is 100% innocent and 100% the responsiblity of his or her parents. Not you or me. Do you come to my place to feed my family, mow my lawn, or wash my dishes? Of course not, because you know taking care of my family is MY responsiblity. Your argument is totally bogus. And, it isn't a woman's 'right' to choose to kill the baby in her, because the baby is another person. The baby feels the pain of the abortion-- not the murder mom. If abortions went with a cubic-inch of tissue removal of the woman's actual body, like her arm or leg so that she would first feel the pain of abortion's vivisection, there would be a lot fewer abortions. Any doubts? Let's see you let the corrupt abortion doctors cut on your arm or your leg a little. Are you willing to try the 'medicine' your recommend for others? I thought not. That's what hypocrites are always like-- not liking a dose of their own medicine.

Julie Ferenzi

6:29 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Last year my "then 7 year old son" saw the signs on the roadway as we were driving through one of these demonstrations. He said, "mom, what is that?" with wide eyes. Not sure how to really explain why someone would want to kill their unborn baby, until I got home I figured it would be easier just to say that it was an "abortion"...

I looked at him in the rear view mirror after I said that, and his eyes were already glassy. He said, "but Mom, it looks just like a baby".

A child understands what "educated adults" are not willing to admit. It is a baby. I'm glad he saw the signs. I'm glad I got to tell him what an abortion is... and the thing that terrified him most... more than any of the gory signs he saw that day? Knowing that before he even got to take his first breath in the world, I, his mother had the option of whether he lived or died. He asked me if anyone could have one.

I truly admire the mothers that chose the difficult and gut wrenching choice of adoption.

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LMS

7:00 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

If your (Julie Ferenzi's) seven-year-old child had such a calm, cherubic response to those horrifyingly gruesome images then you must have been driving past quickly. Or you're not being honest. Or your seven-year-old didn't really pay attention. This year drive by slowly and really look at the entire corridor of imagery. Walk past, if need be. Take your son and all of his friends, and any other children you know. Then come back to this thread and repeat your stance that this protest is a positive doorway to intelligent, moral discourse for people of all ages. I truly admire people intelligent, honest, and compassionate enough to admit that the time and resources of this group would be much better spent on education, counseling, and/or supporting viable alternatives for women facing this choice.

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randy crawford

2:11 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

If people would stop for a prolonged discussion, the pictures could be dispensed with. Most people are in a hurry, and so the pictures are worth a thousand words to convey the evils of abortion in a few brief seconds as people drive by. They save lives all the time, with women and relatives stopping by to say "Thanks. Now that I (or my sister, etc.) realizes what abortion is, we are cancelling our Planned Parenthood/abortion mill appointment." People also stop by with kids to say "Thanks. I saw your pictures 5 years ago (or whatever) and now I have my kid who I would have killed otherwise. Thanks for saving me from a stupid abortion mistake that would have haunted me forever otherwise." The gruesome pictures ARE education, counseling, and support that is vitally needed AND efficiently supplied in the few seconds people have when they are driving by, or the few minutes they have to look when stopped on a red light. For all you know, your mother saw an abortion picture and therefore decided to save you, and was too ashamed to ever tell you that she had previously thought of killing you out of her womb.

Julie Ferenzi

7:18 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

He wasn't calm, he started to cry. I'd hardly call crying about dead baby posters on the side of the road cherubic. But you said that, not me. How did our experience with the demonstration turn into the need to parade other people's children past graphic signs of dead babies. I hardly have reason to lie when I post on here using my real name. Yes he saw it. As a matter of fact we were stuck at the light, so he saw a lot of it. Would you like me to time the light so you know exactly how long? I mean they may have changed the settings at the intersection in a years time, but I'm sure I can give you a better approximation. It was probably like 3 minutes or so, most traffic lights are.

I also suppose I could have gone into more detail about the conversation I had with him as a result of the signs, but I chose to highlight the one sentence that struck a chord in my heart. The simple observation of an innocent child. Make of it what you will, or discount my comment to fit your ideology. You are either Pro-Life or Pro-Choice. I simply shared my experience from the demonstration. I guess I should have known better by putting myself into this public debate, it's just a shame that some people let their passion turn into personal attacks.

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LMS

7:59 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Regardless of your feelings of victimization, I didn't attack you. Maybe I misunderstood you. Do you think this specific demonstration serves a positive purpose in our community and should be continued, or do you wish they'd use their time and resources to more productively spread their message?

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Julie Ferenzi

8:16 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

I didn't feel victimized at all. I do however feel as though you chose to mock and minimize my comment and experience.

Yes, I think the demonstration serves a purpose in community. Prevention and awareness of the graphic nature of abortion is something we should all be concerned about. Depending on which website you chose to cite, there are women in this country that wish they had more information about the procedure before they chose to have an abortion.

As a group that chooses to raise funds to support their initiative of preventing abortions I feel like they are able to chose how to spend those funds in any manner that best suits their agenda as long as it is within the confines of the law.

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LMS

12:46 am on Friday, July 6, 2012

I've never argued that this group is doing something illegal or should be stopped by the police. I do stand by my opinion that this group is doing something unethical, counterproductive to their alleged purpose, and nauseating. I'm amazed that any educated, intelligent, caring individual would feel this approach best suits any agenda. That's not a personal attack, but my honest opinion. We'll have to agree to disagree on this subject. (And please understand that I wasn't serious in my earlier post regarding driving by again with children. I wouldn't wish that imagery on any child, including the children forced to hold abortion signs.)

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randy crawford

2:05 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Abortion protest signs are not inappropriate or unethical. They are sounding the alarm about an incredible evil of vivisection and dismemberment. You would want no less to be done if someone breaks into your house tonight and takes a machete to you as you lie helpless in bed. The pictures are nauseating because of what the abortion mills do, not what the messengers holding the signs do. Getting mad at the messenger doens't change reality-- it only lets ostriches try to get away with burying their heads in the sand, and they only fool themselves until some guy with a machete sneaks up on them. So, suppressing the truth isn't a good idea.

Walt Hines

8:26 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Freedom Of Speech so they have every right to do this. I'm also entitled to the same and I'm going to be out there with a sign showing a picture of my dead nephew who committed suicide after being molested by a catholic priest, which I'll also have a sign showing the molesters face and what he did to 26 boys. ( He's in prison now but this all could have stopped when the church was notified on the first complaint.) Seems theirs a double standard. It's considered child abuse if it happens before your born but once your here it's perfectly okay to harm and molest, the church will be blind to that.

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Holly

10:30 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

I am so sorry for the death of your nephew. My family has been impacted by the actions of a pedophile as well. I understand your anger. You have every right to be angry with the Catholic church. But muddying the waters doesn't help. I'm not Catholic but I'm pretty sure that Church is not pro-pedophile.

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Plainfield Ind

10:55 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

That's why we have free speech which is to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech does not need protection. You cannot bend the constitution whenever the breeze blows in a certain direction.

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Tim

11:30 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

"I'm pretty sure that Church is not pro-pedophile."

That seems like something you should be absolutely sure of, doesn't it?

If you are interested in the answer to that, you should do some digging. Not only into the current form of the church, but also its past. You may be rather disturbed by what you find.

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Rose

12:14 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Walt, my heart goes out to you and your family regarding this terrible tragedy. This is an example of evil running rampant in our society. Whomever harms a child needs to be punished and held accountable.
Please realize that the church itself is not evil~~you can check out the good they do throughout the entire world.
There are good and bad in all areas and walks of life.
For some, myself included, nothing is more evil than killing a defenseless human being who has no way to defend their own life and no voice to speak up for themself.

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Tim

1:16 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Rose has turned a blind eye to the abuses done in her name, and more importantly done with her financial support. However, this does not change the fact that they have actually been done.

Here is a database of all priests involved in the molesting of children. That giant page that will take you a few minutes to scroll through, is for those whose names end with the letter 'A'. Continue on through the rest of the entries, if you dare. You can even find the exact priests who belonged to this very church in Plainfield that are supporting this religious group and their signage. Hint: It will be under the last names starting with the letter 'G'.

http://bishop-accountability.org/priestdb/PriestDBbylastName-A.html

If you support this organization, you are just as culpable as those who did it. At one time, I belonged to the catholic church. When I reached the age of reason, and was able to look into its history of atrocities and its methodologies, I left immediately and never regretted it for a second. I want nothing to do with them.

No amount of whitewashing this, or ignoring it by trying to claim 'how much good they do' can make up for this behavior. What they have done, and are still doing is not an isolated incident, it is in fact a well orchestrated manner in which they promote this behavior internally, as well as protect those abusers from public justice.

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randy crawford

2:01 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Abortion protesters do not have a double standard. We condemn all kinds of evil, including what totally unjustly happened to your nephew. We prioritize protecting the babies, because they have no voice to speak up and no legs to walk away. They are tethered for their oxygen on an umbilical cord every second until they are born, and even then they are totally helpless. Sorry this won't bring your nephew back to life, but I think you realize that unborn and young born babies are the most helpless among us.

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Logansdad

2:09 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Where are all the pro-life people when criminals are being put to death by death penalty? You don't see pro-life people holding up signs with gruesome pictures when an adult is about to die via lethal injection.

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randy crawford

2:41 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

"Protest the death penalty" is a bogus argument. Killing a guilty murderer is totally different as to motive from killing an innocent baby. It's OK to build a fire to keep warm, but it's not OK to build a fire to burn down your neighbor's house.

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Logansdad

2:49 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Just as I thought, Randy. You are not Pro-life as you claim. You are just anti-bortion.

What ever happened to life being so valuable. So it is you that gets to decide when a life is actually worth saving. Who made you God? You go on and on about how killing is wrong, but then you have so qualms about letting a criminal be put to death.
I am sorry but that is being a hypocrite.

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randy crawford

5:40 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012

Logansdad- There you go again with another bogus argument. Pro-life isn't blind, or hypocritical, as you try to pretend. Executing a murderer is totally justified because the murderer is guilty of murder. Butchering a helpless innocent baby is totally wrong because the baby is innocent. You are trying to fuzz over the difference between innocence and guilt (again) but fooling no one.

Patterson

9:47 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

Thank you Walt! You helped me make my point.

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Rose

12:01 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

LMS, there ae many who question the intelligence and sanity of those who advocate
the killing of unborn babies. Guess it works both ways. But, I'd have to say anytime one condones eliminating a human life because of inconvenience, sanity is lacking big time.

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Frederick Dallmeyer

1:01 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Would it be fair to call these groups "Anti-Abortion", rather than "Pro-Life"? If they were in fact "pro-life", they would also be against the senseless slaughter of war. Yet, you rarely (if ever) see these groups stand on street corners, holding placards displaying the mutilated corpses of war victims, being posed and defiled by troop, for foreign and domestic...

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randy crawford

1:57 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Are you standing on street corners doing the work you advocate? If you aren't, you are a hypocrite recommending activity you don't do yourself. Please show us a picture of you doing what you advocate, and then you'll have some credibility. In reality, all innocent people deserve protection, as you advocate whether you do it or not. Who is most deserving of all? The babies in the womb, because unlike most war victims they don't have legs to walk away from trouble. They are 100% passive, and 100% innocent, while the older people get (to a point) they tend to develop more and more personal guilt and more and more ability to walk away from trouble whether they do or not. So, the most priority with helping should go to the people who need it the most and are least able to help themselves.

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Logansdad

2:13 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

So the work of pro-lifer can't be done in front of a church or clinic? It can't be done via a website or blog? If you want us to believe that pro-life work can only be accomplished out on a street corner holding up signs with gruesome images, you are not fooling anyone.

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randy crawford

2:46 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Pro-life work can be done on a street corner, in front of a church, in front of an abortion mill, or anywhere. Sometimes the best place to do it is: where the most people can see for themselves the barbaric cruelty of what abortion actually is. Of course, that bothers the babykillers who make huge profits killing kids. Murderers usually do want to cover up their crimes. I've seen abortions, and they only cost $10 to do with recycled surgical instruments and disposable paper gowns and masks. At hundreds of thousands of dollars per abortion, times a million or so abortions a year, the abortion lobby has plenty of money to buy off crooked politicians, crooked police, crooked judges, and crooked journalists to pump out denials and anesthesia for propaganda. Also, they have paid typists to try to peddle abortion's murderous lies on the Internet when virtually all pro-lifers (like me) are unpaid volunteers.

randy crawford

1:53 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

The pictures are gruesome because abortion is so horrible. The problem is the savage butchery of abortion, not the messengers alerting our nation to this barbaric tragedy. Blame the abortion mills doing the slaughter, not the unpaid volunteers sounding the alarm. Do you ignore your neighbor when he is being ax-murdered, or do you raise the alarm and stop the murderer? When children are bothered by the pictures, that is the clue their parents should be working to stop the problem of abortion before its inhumanity and insensitivity spread to infants and the elderly, as callous disregard for human life is already starting to do. Save your neighbor before you are added to the death list and it becomes too late for you to save yourself.

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Julie Ferenzi

2:36 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Randy you speak the truth about abortion. This thread is making me sick to my stomach. So many excuses, so much denial. We believe what we want to believe about how "humane" abortion is to the alternative being an imagined automatic sentence of poverty, abuse, and emotional abandonment) until you look at the photos... until you see tiny well formed hands and feet dismembered from a body that supposedly does not yet contain a soul.

This naive altruistic idea that somehow these children are somehow best suited dead than to have a chance at life, is stomach turning. Animals shelters euthanize puppies and kittens because "there are too many" overpopulating the shelter system. Everyone seems so concerned with this overpopulation of unwanted children. How is this any different? It's eugenics and infanticide.

If you research the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, you will find out a lot more about the ugly truth that is Planned Parenthood. It is deeply rooted in eugenics and racism. I'm not going to post any links because if you are interested, the truth will find you. We will all take away from this discussion what we chose to hear.

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randy crawford

3:03 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

Thanks for the support. But, many people are too busy to search out the truth, so they can be helped with a little guidance. To see the horrible truth of abortion and let other people learn how awful it is, anybody can google "abortion pictures" including going straight to www.100abortionpictures.com or www.abortionno.org It is sickening how evil so many selfish people are, and it is up to civilized people to expose their murderous lies. It's always been that way, and is likely to remain so for thousands of years to come. As Edmund Burke said, evil triumphs when good men do nothing. So, we need to get cracking and do something.

Julie Ferenzi

3:22 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

This is the truth about Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. This is the truth behind the organizations very ugly origin:

Meet Margaret Sanger
Founder of Planned Parenthood:

Margaret Sanger, the alcoholic and Demerol addict, who spawned the International Planned Parenthood Federation, was a proponent of forced eugenics, segregation, abortion, birth control and sexual immorality. Here are some of her quotes.

"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population"
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

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Julie Ferenzi

3:24 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

"Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"The unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' [is] the greatest present menace to civilization the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying a dead weight of human waste an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

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Julie Ferenzi

3:24 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

"The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order..."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children..."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"[Mandatory] sterilization for [the insane and feeble-minded] is the answer."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization."
Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, proposed the American Baby Code that states, "No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood".

Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, proposed the Population Congress with the aim, "...to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization."

Personally, I think this woman was certifiably insane. How the organization she founded has survived this long is mystifying.

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Jake

4:29 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012

After living in this town of idiots for 18 years im starting to think a lot more of your parents should have aborted, there are too many uneducated, religiously brainwashed, closed minded people in this town. I am done discussing this all it is is pointless circles. Nobody is ever going to agree

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randy crawford

5:44 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012

Jake-- if you think closed minded people should have been aborted, and if you are close minded enough to be done discussing, are you ever going to be consistent and abort yourself? No, because it would be a nonsensical thing to do. The abortion signs DO change minds, and they save babies' lives. For all you know, your mother was thinking of aborting you, and a pro-life sign or picture or discussion may be what changed her mind. I see it happen all the time-- when people get to thinking, which is what the pictures of abortion's horrors do, they realize they shouldn't go ahead and kill their innocent child. So, thank the pro-life people. Because they may have allowed you to be born in the first place.

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