Abortion Crazies
Aug 9, 2004 In my humble opinion
Some people just don’t know how to use the slightest bit of common sense that God gave them. If you weren’t ‘privileged’ enough to view these trucks or haven’t seen the news story about them, consider yourself lucky. These trucks have billboard sized images of aborted fetus. Obvious bloody facial features and tiny arms. I personally don’t even think about abortion when I see those billboards. All I can think about it “OMG what if my kids see that? What if they have nightmares about that?” This campaign is in no way, shape or form helping their cause. I cannot image that even strict pro-lifers can approve of this campaign of fright and terror on our public streets. Parading right in front of daycares and city parks. What the hell are they thinking??? I refuse to post the URL to the psycho organization that is behind these trucks. You can find it for yourself if you feel so compelled, but I will not be directing perfectly sane human beings to a website of terror.
On the website they state “WARNING: Abortion is an act of violence that kills a baby. This site graphically depicts that reality.” and then they have an “ENTER” button. AN ENTER BUTTON WITH A WARNING!! Where the hell is my warning on the damn truck that’s driving down my street? Where is my enter button there?
In their “Does Abortion Hurt Women?” entries (it’s just like a guestbook) one 27 year old woman writes, “I had an abortion 5 years ago. It haunts me every day. I wish I could go back…If I had any idea what the horrific process of abortion really meant for the baby inside me, I would have never done it. The Doctor just said it’s a tiny lump of tissue-no feeling,no brain-he was a liar! They do have a brain-they are a living breathing human being, and it’s MURDER to take their life-at any stage of pregnancy…” To this poor woman I say…for any medical procedure you are going to have you need to research it first. Am I the only person who does a little research on the internet before I go under the knife? Or even just when I get a diagnosis from the doctor. I researched Roseola for goodness sakes and it’s just a rash. But my child had it and I wanted to know exactly what it is. If I get a new drug prescribed by my doctor I research it on the internet or discuss it with my pharmacist to determine the side effects and what class of drug it is. If you honestly didn’t know what an abortion was then that’s your own damn fault. And, honestly, how could you not know what an abortion is. You were pregnant. You went to the doctor or clinic to remove the pregnancy. Nine months later you did not give birth. Shit, it’s been five years and you still did not give birth. Obviously you killed your fetus. Nobody is denying that. The distinction comes in whether or not you consider it removing a fetus that is only ‘alive’ [remember plants are alive, erupting volcanoes are alive and cows are alive until we slaughter them for hamburger] because it is connected to your life line (much like a patient on life support) or if you consider it a child right from the get go. That decision is for every woman to decide after further research and discussions with her doctor. If you didn’t do that research then don’t cry me a river. If you even half listened in ninth grade biology class you know how a sperm and egg come together to eventually (after nine months of gestation) create a baby. I’m thirty years old (three years older then her) and when I was in school they explained the process from egg to baby in much detail. So don’t give me your sob story about these psychos opening your eyes to your so called ‘act of murder.’
That being said, I’ve gotten off on my real point. Yes I am pro-choice and these signs have done nothing to sway me. In fact they have done quite the opposite. They have absolutely pissed me off. To the point that I have cursed multiple times in my usually child friendly blog. But I am not against pro-lifers right to voice their opinion. I am against their forcing their disgustingly graphic material down my throat. I am against them polluting my streets with their filth. I am against them forcing my children to view scary and offensive material without my permission.
One of the arguments of pro-choicers is that when government forces their principles on a woman’s body [don't even get me started on the whole government in our bedrooms issue], some woman are forced to back alleys with coat hangers. But you don’t see pro-choicers driving around in trucks with billboards portraying that. You don’t see pro-choicers driving around in trucks with starving children or beaten children from homes that don’t want them. You don’t even see them driving around in trucks with pictures of families on welfare or living on the streets cause the government doesn’t have enough money to support the needy. This organization has all this money to throw around for graphic pictures of bloody fetus and embryos. Where is their contribution to stopping teen pregnancy? Where is their contribution to ending the dead-beat-dad phenomenon? Where is their money to help the government’s federal welfare program? Do they have money to spare to organizations trying to stop child abuse?
You don’t see M.A.D.D driving around our streets with gruesome accident victims on the side of their trucks. You don’t see organizations against child abuse with pictures of bloody children and parents with bruised hands. Or even worse, pictures depicting sexual abuse of children. I understand these things are horrible and we need to act, but I don’t need graphic pictures to persuade me. I have no problem with this organization sending me literature in the mail, as long as they keep the graphic pictures inside of a sealed envelope. I have no problem with them having a website as long as they keep that warning and enter button on the front page. I have no problem with them having a television commercial as long as they remove the graphic pictures or even a television special as long as they put a warning on before the show begins and immediately following commercial breaks. By all means, in the name of Free Speech, get your point across. But do it responsibly.
I understand we can’t protect our children from the evil things in society all their lives, but do we have to spring everything on them at the age of 4 or 2 or even 10? Can’t we let them experience it gradually and help them deal with one thing at a time? When was the last time a 4 year old or a 10 year old got pregnant and chose abortion? Abortion is not an issue for a child. It’s an issue for an adult and, unfortunately, sometimes for a teenager. So think about your target audience when you preach your sermon. But don’t bring your trash in to my neighborhood.
I ask you to ACT and send a letter to Mark who runs the Midwest chapter of this organization. You can reach Mark at mark@cbrinfo.org. While you’re at it send an email to the corporate offices at cbr@cbrinfo.org or mail@cbrinfo.org. Let them know how irresponsible their organization is. Tell Mark how ashamed you are of a man who has four children of his own forcing this crap on our innocent children. Express yourself to him. And do it every day…twice a day, until he figures out we are not going to stand for this crap!
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August 10th, 2004 at 9:19 am
I totally agree with you. How wrong is it for kids to see such digusting photos. But what gets me the most is what happened when I called the police. I know that the abortion vehicle is protected under free speech, but I felt compelled to complain anyway. Know what I was told by the Cedar Rapids police office….. If I wanted to have pictures of NAKED children on my car there is not a DAMN thing they can do. But hell, if I have those same pictures on my computer isn’t that child pornography? And to make it worse, the local news station said in their telecast that they could NOT show the pictures on the trucks due to the graphic nature. HELLO! I told the nice officer that it is harmful for my kids to see the mutalated bodies. He said my children were not in danger. Excuse me Mr. Officer but physical danager isn’t the only thing out there. MENTAL effects of seeing such photos could scar. They are still in my head and I don’t think they will go away.
I was so pissed I called my parents to complain. My Dad of all people disagreed with me. He said there is violence, bloody bodies on TV and video games. Although he didn’t actually see the trucks, he told me to look away. DAD! Listen to me, I can block violent shows on my TV. I can restrict my kids from playing video games. I am a responsible parent.
Just one more thing…The abortion issue has become a hot political topic. I understand people have strong views both ways. This country is based on democracy, on freedom of choice. Please continue to express your options either way. But please look at the big picture. Do NOT vote for a presential candidate solely for their view on abortion. What about all the lives we are losing in Iraq? What about the poor starving kids in this country? What about our economy?
Ok,I lied, another thought popped into my head. There is one thing I don’t udnerstand. Why do anti abortion ‘fighters’ feel the need to kill abortion doctors? Isn’t that ending a life as well. It’s not going to stop abortions. I would rather have a licensed doctor perform the proceedure than a woman and a coat hanger.
Stepping off my soap box.
necole
August 11th, 2004 at 8:22 pm
Another bad example of a stance against abortion is the Right To Woman organization. I don’t know if they are only locally based but I know they have or had offices in Cedar Rapids. They would advertise free pregnancy testing to anyone not sure if they could be pregnant or not. Let’s face it any scared teenager or young woman who thinks they are pregnant is going to jump on that free, confidential testing. BUT once you are there they preach to you on the evils of abortion, how God feels about it and how it will haunt you the rest of your life. They even show a movie of an abortion being performed with screaming baby “voice” overs to scare the living daylights out of you. That is NOT what those scared young girls need in those moments. I don’t recall those radio ads saying to come in for a free pregnancy test and we’ll set you straight on God’s intentions for you and your unborn child. And how you will go to hell if you have an abortion. Probably wouldn’t get many through the doors that way. That is some f u c k e d up truth in advertising.
Now time for bravery if I’m going to state my real feelings on this…I had an abortion when I was 17 years old so reading this post got real hard for me. Even my good friend’s comment “obviously you killed your fetus”. That is hard for me to hear but I’m not saying I didn’t know that. One some level I did know that. There were things I didn’t know. Like how painful it was. I remember commenting to my mother afterward (we had earlier commented on how loud the music was in the waiting room) that now I knew why they kept that music so loud – so the mother’s won’t hear their daughter’s screaming. I just realized the other day that that is something my mother probably never forgot.
I don’t know if I would say I’m haunted by my abortion but I do think about it A LOT. I am pregnany now and am wanting a little girl so of course I wonder if that baby was my little girl and I gave up on her. I wonder how my life would have been different if I’d kept that baby. My mother forced me into that abortion. I was 17, not yet a senior in high school and the father was a married man. NOT the best of circumstances. She laid a guilt trip on me because my dad was dying at the time and she said didn’t want him to die knowing his daughter got knocked up. She threatened to throw me out and wouldn’t support me at all. So, scared and alone (the married man was still very much with his wife), I went through with it. My dad died 10 days after my abortion. He would have never known. So, yes I wonder how things might have been different but deep down I know having a child in high school would have changed everything about my life. I wouldn’t have met the people I’ve met because I would have been on a different course.
But it changed me. I went on to have a child at 22 – still young. And 6 months later I was pregnant again. The timing was so bad and I was practically devastated. Having gotten upset about it at a friend’s bachlorette party a person said to me I have a choice, I could have an abortion. Abortion was then and forever is no longer an option for me. Knowing what I know now I could never go through it again. I could never give up another child. To deny that child it’s life and my other children their sibling.
I have to live with the fact that once upon a time I did deny a child a life. My child. It was a choice I made and I whole heartedly stand behind a woman’s right to choose. And yes everyone is entitled to their opinion but I certainly do not need those other side of the issue groups defaming my personal trajedy, twisting it into some campaign for the greater good. Only God knows what the greater good is and I don’t care what they believe…I know my baby is with God being taken care of because I just couldn’t. And that doesn’t make me a bad person. Oprah Winfrey repeats this quote from Maya Angelou all the time, “when you know better, you do better”. I didn’t know anything at 17 but I’d like to think that doesn’t negate the life I am leading now at 34 or the afterlife I’ll be given because God is also taking care of me.
Wow – where did all that come from. I guess passion run deep on all sides.
August 11th, 2004 at 9:01 pm
Just a clarification on my earlier comment…I was 24 when I had my child not 22. That is called pregnancy math. You know – the kinda that just doesn’t compute! HA.
August 11th, 2004 at 9:18 pm
Hi. I am on the American Baby board and Lori posted about this. I thought I, as a very dedicated pro-lifer, would add my imput. I am thoroughly disgusted by these people. They should not be shoving these type of images into the face of children. Now, I do believe that any woman getting an abortion should be told the full details of an abortion. Some people think its just simple and easy. Just stick me with a needle and the baby is gone. Its not that simple. I think there would be less abortions, from teenagers esepcially,if they really knew what an abortion entailed. I thought I was pregnant when I was single. I was devastated. I wasn’t with anyone. We had just broken up and the guy was uncaring. I thought about abortion for about 3 seconds. I immediately pushed it out of my head. I could never kill my child. To me, its the same as a parent killing their child after its birth.
I’m not meaning to offend anyone, especially Lori because I think she is a very sweet person. I was young and thought about it too. I know how it feels, and how shameful you feel having to tell family. I never told my mother, I knew she’d be very upset. I’m glad I didn’t, because I wasn’t pregnant. But if I had been, I know if would have been very very hard.
The comment about pro-lifers killing abortion doctors: This is one of the stupidist things I’ve ever heard of these people doing, beaten out only by those trucks! If you are so against the killing of innocents, why kill these doctors? The laws are letting them do this. You have to get rid of the law to stop it, not kill these people. There will always be more people performing these abortions. The more you kill, the more outraged pro-choice people will be.
I don’t think we need to bring up people being killing in Iraq and such. I don’t think this at all can compare at all to an abortion. Those people in the military are choosing to fight. I feel for anyone who has to lose someone in the war, but they do it to free those people trodden down by Saddam *yes, choosing by joining the military–my husband is Air Force* Those babies aren’t getting to choose anything.
Anyway, I respect all of your opinions here and am glad to see that people on both sides can agree on something as wrong as those pictures on trucks!
August 11th, 2004 at 9:26 pm
“Let’s face it any scared teenager or young woman who thinks they are pregnant is going to jump on that”
-Lori
I don’t care how old you are it was your choice in the first place to have sex, and now your going to kill a living person. Why? Do they not have a choice? What about all of these women who want a baby so bad but are not able to get pregant? or can not carry a baby? Why not in stead of killing a baby give up for adoption? Give him/her a chance. I was 17 wehen I got pregant with my son, the father left as soon as he could my mom kicked me out of her house, I had no were to go,no money,nothing. But I never once thought as abortion, I had my son, okay no some days I didn’t know how we or just he was going to eat but that made me work even more harder. Now we are doing just fine. I am married now and also expecting again. (I am 26) My son is now 8 year old and somedays I wondered how I could live with out him. I guess you have guessed now that I am pro-life.
Everybody says it’s a “Womans choice” yea your right it was the womans choice to have sex to get pregant. It dosen’t mean you can kill a baby. Every day some gets put behind bars for killing another person on the street. What about all of theos people who killed a child. They can deteced (spl?) as early as two weeks.
August 12th, 2004 at 7:55 am
When I said “Let’s face it any scared teenager or young woman who thinks they are pregnant is going to jump on that” I was talking about free pregnancy testing NOT jumping into an abortion. I also think anyone considering abortion should become as informed as possible. I respect your opinion though. You are entitled to that opinion. Abortion was not the choice for you. And although I’m not saying it was the entirely the right choice for me, because I do have regrets, I am just saying that was the choice I made. And I am entitled to that choice for my personal reasons and no one else has the right to twist that around and make me out to be the devil incarnate because of that choice. Only I can live with that choice and know how it changed me. And no one has the right to discredit my beliefs of what that means for me throughout the rest of this and my eternal life. That’s all I’m saying.
August 21st, 2004 at 10:11 pm
To the last anonymous comment which talked about me saying I didn’t want my dying father to know that I got knocked up. That was what my mother said and thought – NOT me. God – I hate when people misquote or twist what was said. It doesn’t really matter anyway no one else can put themselves exactly in my shoes – not even others who’ve had an abortion. Every person and every circumstance is different. And the decisions that are made belong to those people alone. Every one is entitled to a view or an opinion but they are not entitled to push that view or opinion on anyone else (like the abortion trucks and planes). And they are not entitled to pass judgement on anyone for their choices. That right is reserved for God. And the thoughts of what that may be also belong to that person alone based on their beliefs that are theirs to have.
August 12th, 2004 at 8:13 am
I was not trying to say that you are a bad person in no way. I’m just saying that there are pleanty of women who can’t have babies. And then there are women who can but kill them. Why I see no point in it. You said that your fater was dying and you didn’t want him to die knowing that his daughter was knocked up. If it was me and my father was dying I would want him to know that I didn’t just take the easy way out, that I kept that baby and I am do the best I can. That I am a responable adult. And that he taught me to be a responable adult. Now, no I don’t know everything about you or your family. And I don’t know if you have any kids are if you want any kids. Now I am not saying that you or anybody or that matter does not have the right to there freedom of speech and there own thoughts.
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