Posted on 05/28/2002 7:10:25 AM PDT by TroutStalker
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
DENVER -- As soon as he saw the blue minivan turning into the parking lot of Planned Parenthood's small abortion clinic here, Kenneth Scott grabbed his digital camera, clambered up his rickety metal ladder and started snapping pictures.
"You'll have nightmares about this day the rest of your life," he bellowed, photographing the blond woman gingerly leaving the minivan. Then he turned his camera to her escort. "Your sin won't be hidden or forgotten," he screamed.
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This doesn't mark a tactical shift by the movement, it marks a new, and in my opinion rather questionable, technique by two people and a few imitators. Like any revolutionary "movement," pro-lifers represent a spectrum of opinions and methods, from the prayerful to the half-dozen unfortunate people who have resorted to violence. I think this lead-in is calculated to appeal to the pro-aborts among WSJ's readers and stir them up.
Unfortunately the Wall Street Journal is pro-abortion, in its conservative editorial pages as well as its left-wing news staff. They are thoughtful on other issues, but not on this one. Hopefully they will think better of it some day.
On both sides. Those wanting babies to die and those trying to stop them.
My dad's office was above the abortion clinic. The protesters were there on Tuesdays and Thursdays. One time, I went to see him with my girlfriend. When we came to the clinic door, she grabbed the handle, the protesters yelled and we kept walking past. It was pretty funny at the time.
On both sides.
That's wrong and you know it. The women having their picture taken are not haters in any imaginable sense of the word. The simply do not agree with you about the definition of when a human becomes a human. That is a reasonable thing to disagree about.
No, it is these sort of self-righteous haters who can tolerate no disagreement -- who only seek to bring harm to those they disagree with.
I feel sorry for the women who have to face these hate mongers. It is very sad that hate mongers like this exist.
Of course they don't. They never did. Those who have most fervently pushed abortion have always treated it as a shameful act.
Of course they don't.
No, of course not, only the self-rightous can believe their own rhetoric, everyone else is just a tool of Satan, yada yada yada
If they disagreed with me about the definition of when life begins they would not be embarrased in the least.
But you are right, hate is too strong. They dislike the life they are carrying so strongly they wish to terminate its existance and are self-righteous when anyone might possibly disagree with them.
By the way, a hemoroidectomy is a legal medical procedure. Do you want pictures on the web of you going in for that procedure?
Hey, yeah, let's take pictures of people going into a weightloss clinic and post their pictures on the web -- we could call the site "God hates fatties too."
The mothers are victims and will have to live with what they have done.
You cannot have a 'difference of opinion' where killing is concerned. We have shaded so many wrongs in this society, soon nothing will be wrong. It will just be your opinion as to what is right or wrong.
Violence and maybe even the actions of these people are wrong. However, think about it. If you absolutely and with no doubt whatsoever, believed that they were murdering babies in that building, what would you do? And that is what they are doing - it is not just a difference of opinion, that is a beating heart and a life.
How do any of us sleep at night - both the ones who are pro-abortion and those of us who are against it and are doing nothing but posting on sites where we know we will be supported by the majority of posters. (The later was aimed at myself.)
I don't protest surveillance cameras. I know how often I am being filmed. If you search for cams on the internet you might be surprised how much we do is being "televised" as we go about our daily tasks.
By the way, a hemoroidectomy is a legal medical procedure. Do you want pictures on the web of you going in for that procedure?
I really could care less.
That was pretty disingenuous of you. How do you know? Maybe they just don't like the thought of inconvenient babies' skulls being crushed for money.
Well stated, bravo! So killing of the uborn or the barely born is now "difference of opinion when life begins"? With euthanasia there is also "difference of opinion when life ends." Nutting but differences of opinion among educated people. It's all so relative, isn't it, and we're supposed to "celebrate our differences" and be "non-judgemental", aren't we? There is another name for these phenomena: decadence.
You bring about an interesting point. Hypothetically, suppose it was't unborn children, but, as an example, jewish people. Suppose that it wasn't illegal to kill jewish people and you knew that they were doing that inside the "clinic". If you truly believed in your heart that this was wrong, wouldn't you try everything in your power to stop it? Or what if it was black people, or red-headed people, or whatever? Hopefully you would try to save these peoples' lives.
I know this is a wild example, but I think it illustrates the point. Those of us that believe that there are truly babies being murdered in there, we should be doing more to stop it.
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