Abortion: A picture is worth a thousand words Avortement: Une image vaut mieux que 1.000 mots

"A picture is worth a thousand words." In this case however, it is worth much more.

What a pathetic people we are if we want to tolerate the oppression of an entire people group, but then become outraged at someone for displaying the suffering of that people group. It is important to note that the displaying of these photographs has saved many preborn babies from death by abortion and have spared many women and men the grief of having aborted their own son or daughter.

Historical Precedents There are many historical precedents for displaying such photographs. Just as we have seen photographs of lynched black men, Jewish corpses, and lifeless Vietnamese children, so we need to look at the frozen, horrid images of preborn babies torn from their mother's wombs.

At the end of World War II, our American soldiers marched the citizens of Germany past the remains of those who died in the death camps. They marched men, women, and children past the remains of those who died in the death camps. Why did they do it? Because those citizens all stood guilty for having tolerated the atrocities that went on in their midst.

So it is in America today, we all stand guilty for being silent while this atrocity goes on in our nation.

Civil War Photographs Matthew Brady, the famed Civil War photographer, took and displayed many photographs of the war dead. In 1862, the New York Times wrote the following about Brady's photographs: "The dead of the battlefield come up to us very rarely, even in dreams. We see the list in the morning paper at breakfast, but dismiss its recollection with the coffee. We recognize the battlefield as reality, but it stands as a remote one. It is like a funeral next door. It attracts your attention, but it does not enlist your sympathy. But it is very different when the hearse stops at our own door and the corpse is carried over your own threshold. Mr. Brady has done something to bring us the terrible reality and earnestness of the war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along our street, he has done something very like it."

WHEN SOMETHING IS SO HORRIFYING WE CAN'T STAND TO LOOK AT IT, PERHAPS WE SHOULDN'T BE TOLERATING IT !!!

Show the American people what an abortion is!

We urging the mass media to show the American people what an abortion is. Abortion is a reality which is so horrific that words alone can never convey its meaning.

We present here some of the grim reality of abortion. Only seeing such images can bring us to the kind of indignation needed to sustain the sacrifices that will be necessary to finally bring an end to this injustice.

It is especially critical to show people the images of babies aborted in the first trimester. It is in regard to such children, who constitute 90% of abortion victims, that the myth persists that they are not really children at all.

We thank all of you who have contacted us to tell us about how these images have affected you.

Please use them to show others this horrible reality.

God, have mercy.

Amen.

L'avortement est un "crime abominable" (Vatican II)

Il est scientifiquement -et philosophiquement- prouvé que la vie commence dès la conception. Dès la fécondation, l'embryon est un être humain à part entière. La fécondation donne à l'embryon ses propres caractéristiques génétiques qui font de lui un être unique. A partir de la fécondation, l'embryon humain ne franchira plus d'étape brusque. Il n'a besoin que de temps et de nourriture pour se développer et arriver à la naissance. Un foetus est viable à partir de 15 semaines aujourd'hui. Si l'avortement en France n'est théoriquement permis que jusqu'à 10 semaines, il l'est jusqu'à 9 mois dans de nombreux pays comme les Etats-Unis et la Chine. Il est arrivé plusieurs fois qu'une femme venant se faire avorter accouche et que le médecin assassine alors le bébé devant les yeux de horrifiés de sa mère.

A 18 jours le coeur humain se met à battre. A 6 semaines, le petit être bouge et les activités de son cerveau peuvent être enregistrées l'éléctroencéphalogramme.

L'avortement est donc une atteinte grave à la vie humaine, au caractère sacré de la vie du foetus comme de toute vie humaine en tant que don de Dieu.