HOLOCAUST DENIERS
But another student, obviously a pro-abort, anonymously E-mailed us (they seldom have the courage to identify themselves) the following drivel:
Tell people about the provoking tactics used by your group to provoke violence. You leave people with these graphic FALSE images of aborted fetuses and call yourself doing something positive [sic]. You are doing nothing but making yourselves look bad. (hummingbird@asa.utk.edu)
There is a pathetic sameness to the pro-abort assertion that we shouldn’t expose the facts about abortion because people who can’t handle the truth might become violent. Further, the last refuge of the trapped is always to deny the authenticity of the photos because what they depict is impossible to defend. That is what Holocaust deniers do even now as they refuse to acknowledge the historicity of the “Final Solution.” They deflect criticism by disingenuously arguing that the photos are faked and genocide against Jews is a myth. But then, short of a mea culpa, what else can be done by supporters of systematic savagery? So in rebuttal to those desperate pro-abort falsehoods, CBR offers scaled photos from medical textbooks with which skeptics can verify the accuracy of claimed ages of the embryos and fetuses we display. And since miscarriages don’t tear a baby’s body to shreds or scald its skin with chemical burns, the accusation that our photos depict still-births doesn’t even pass the snicker test.
EUTHANIZING MAN AND BEAST
Pictures are indeed powerful but their injudicious use can backfire. Shortly after our return from UT, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was charged with murder for euthanizing a Mr. Thomas Youk. Mr. Youk was in the terminal stages of Lou Gehrig’s disease and the video of his euthanasia was broadcast on the CBS news program “60 Minutes.” The prosecution relied heavily on Dr. Kevorkian’s own pictures to convict him. The founders of the euthanasia movement openly credit the Roe v. Wade abortion decision with creating the privacy right to kill the unborn which they are now expanding to include the right to kill the born.
But the euthanasia crusade has also taken some twists that are beyond bizarre. Just a few days later (November 30), The Dallas Morning News reported the creation of the $200 million Duffield Family Foundation started to “…end the euthanasia of millions of unwanted dogs and cats.” The article went on to say that “Although their goal of a ‘no-kill nation’ has been nearly universally lauded, skeptics in the fractious animal welfare movement question whether such a plan is realistic.” The article also reported that:
…Richard Avanzino, president of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals … will leave his post to become the first chief executive officer of the Duffield Family Foundation….
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Mr. Avanzino, who became nationally known for his $7 million plush adoption facility where dogs and cats loll in their own apartments, staring at reruns of Lassie or tanks of live fish, said the $200 million gift was unprecedented.
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According to the American Humane Association, 5.17 million dogs and 4.18 million cats are taken into American shelters each year. Of that number, 2.9 million dogs and 3.01 million cats are euthanized, the association said.
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Mr. Avanzino said the first national goal will be to save those healthy animals that are killed because there isn’t space to house them. Next will be an effort to save those animals with minor treatable problems, then those with major illnesses.
How about a “no-kill nation” for people (even those with “major illnesses”)? The San Francisco Commission of Animal Control and Welfare has also voted to ban rodeo calf-roping and steer-wrestling within the city because the rodeo animals “are not willing participants.” Neither are the babies being aborted in San Francisco and Knoxville, TN.
IGNORE WAR NO MORE
Which brings us back to CBR staffer Paul Kulas, who reports that one student told him that “CBR got what they wanted. They got us debating abortion in all our classes.” I can personally attest to that fact. On my way into a class room building I passed the door of a large lecture hall which was filled with students whose instructor was just assigning them a paper in which they are to discuss five ways abortion was similar to traditional forms of genocide and five ways that it was dissimilar. How’s that for influencing the curriculum without ever attending a meeting of the curriculum committee?
Another student told Paul “I grew up listening to all this talk about abortion in school and I kind of got sick of it. I didn’t want to hear about it any more. But I still never realized what abortion really was until I saw your pictures.”
Scott Cunningham (scottcun@utk.edu) (no relation) E-mailed us the following observation:
I have been pro-life for a long time; even before I came to know Christ. It was not until I saw “Harder Truth” [a CBR video production] and your group coming to my campus (Univ. of Tenn. at Knoxville) wherein I was able to talk to many abortion advocates, that I quite appreciated that profound horror that is actually going on in this country. Even as a pro-life citizen and concerned about what I felt was murder, I did not truly realize it as anything other than an intellectual notion, a parlor game that one could debate about…. Thank you, CBR, for the humiliation and persecution which you gladly endure for the sake of those who are dying.
Well, we do “endure” it but perhaps not as “gladly” as Scott may think. At least our position can be persuasively defended.
REFUSING TO DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE
The Daily Beacon, Friday, November 20, carried a front page article headlined “Vigil honors victims of abortion violence.” It detailed the refusal of pro-aborts to defend abortion.
A group of students, faculty and community members gathered in front of the Humanities building Wednesday night for a candlelight vigil to protest the violence surrounding the abortion debate.
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One member of the community, Julie Bunch, said she was there because she didn’t think the Center For Bio-Ethical Reform, which has displayed their Genocide Awareness Project at UT this week, should be allowed on campus.
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The vigil lasted for about 30 minutes, while CBR sat inside the Humanities Building holding a debate about issues surrounding the abortion [sic] and arguing the CBR stance that abortion is genocide.
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[Angela] Hill [sophomore, sociology] announced she is a UT dancer, and in order to give students something else to look at, a group of dancers would perform improv dances at the UC Plaza Friday where the CBR display will be set up along with the counter demonstration.
‘We are not going to talk or make obscene gestures; we’re just going to dance,’ Hill said.
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