To mark the 36th Memorial of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that decriminalized abortion, Operation Rescue and Born Alive Truth are sponsoring the world premiere of the new movie “22 Weeks” in three locations around the nation.
The movie is based on the true story of a woman who had an abortion at an Orlando abortion clinic in her 22nd week of pregnancy. But something goes wrong and her tiny son is born alive.
“This powerful movie is a strong statement about abortion in general and late-term abortion in particular, and the devastating impact abortions have, not only on the mothers, but the people around them,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “It is particularly relevant in light of recent events involving the nation’s biggest late-term abortionist George Tiller.”
Tiller, who has built his reputation aborting babies after 22 weeks gestation, faces 19 criminal charges of conducting illegal abortions. Operation Rescue also released the results of an undercover investigation earlier this week that caught Tiller’s abortion clinic faking a sonogram to avoid complying with the law.
Because of the underwriting of the movie’s sponsors, all showings are presented free of charge. The movie will premiere the following cities:
Washington, DC
January 21, 2009 (on the eve of the March for Life)
5:00, 6:30, & 8:00 PM
Phoenix Theaters Union Station
50 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20002
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Please confirm your attendance to the DC showing by sending an e-mail to 22weekspremiere@gmail.com.
Orlando, Florida
January 20, 2009
7 PM
Cornerstone Church
3370 Snowhill Rd., Chuluota, FL 32766
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Wichita, Kansas
January 22, 2009
6:30 PM (Immediately following a Candlelight Vigil beginning at 5:30 at Tiller’s abortion mill.)
Operation Rescue National Headquarters
3013 E. Central Ave., Wichita, KS 67214
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The locations were chosen because of their significance to the story of “22 Weeks.” Washington, DC is where the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion, Orlando, Florida is where the incident in the story took place, and Wichita, Kansas, is considered the Late-term Abortion Capital of the World, where babies are aborted up until the day before birth.
The movie is approximately 30 minutes in length. Due to strong subject matter, parental discretion is advised.
I understand the breadth of your religious convictions, which preclude the acceptance of abortion.
I respect and appreciate your efforts in renovating the former Central Clinic. I would be a fool, as well as a hypocrite, not to attest to the pain many post-abortive experience.
Last but certainly not least: if one wishes to cherish life, one need look no further than the two beauteous little cherubs featured at the conclusion of this video.
I cannot, however, agree with your subtle comparison of abortion (and therein those who have them) with World War II criminals and Osama Bin Laden’s overweening and insipid Jihadists.
Neither I, nor any of the countless post-abortive women with whom I’ve interacted, come close to this damnable evil.
But the transcending beauty and innocence of children is something I’ll cherish as long as I live.
How can we not compare the killing of unborn children with the atrocities of the holocaust in Nazi Germany? At the end of the day the bodies of tiny children are disposed of and in many cases their bodies are put on ice to be experimented on. How is it any different ? Abortion is the murder of the innocents. A very wise relative of mine once said that she could not believe that anyone who had gone through World War II would accept abortion. The truth that history repeats itself is our reality today. We must wake up in this nation and start protecting our future generations.
Kansas Native says “Neither I, nor any of the countless post-abortive women with whom I’ve interacted, come close to this damnable evil” i.e. Worl Was II ciminals…and insipid Jihadists. Chuck Colson, in a tract titled “The Danger of Being Normal” wrote “As Mike Wallace of “60 Minutes” introduced a story about Nazi Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Holocaust, he posed a central question at the program’s outset: “How is it possible… for a man to act as Eichmann acted? was he a monster? A madman? Or was he perhaps something even more terrifying: Was he normal?”
Colson continues “The startling answer to Wallace’s shocking question came in an interview with Yehiel Dinur, a concentration camp curvivor who testified against Eichmann at the Nuremberg trials. A film clip from Eichmann’s 1961 trial showed Dinur walking into the courtroom, stopping short, and seeing Eichmann for the first time since the Nazi had sent him to uschwitz 18 years earlier. Dinur began to sob uncontrollable, then fainted, collapsing in a heap on the floor.
Was Dinur overcome by hatred? Fear? Horrid memories?
No; it was none of these” says Colson, “Rather, as Dinur explained to Wallace, all at once he realized Eichmann was not the god-like army officer who had sent so many to their deaths. This Eichmann wa an ordinary man. ‘I was afraid about myself,’ said Dinur. ‘I saw that I am capable to do this. I am…exactly like him.’
Wallace’s summation of Dinur’s terrible discovery – ‘Eichmann is in all of us’ – captures the central truth of (our) nature. Sin is in each of us…”
‘Kansas Native’ represents our individual and cultural denial of this central truth – Sin is in each of us.
GOD BLESS AND ALL GRATITUDE TO ALL AT OPERATION RESCUE, ALL THE UNSUNG HEROES ON THE BATTLEFIELD AT TILLER’S GATES AND ALL SUCH GATES OF DEATH AND HELL!
I RECOMMIT TO THE MISSION, WITH THOUGHT, PRAYER AND ACTION ALSO FOR OUR NEW PRESIDENT AND HIS ADMINISTRATION!
GOD BE THE COMMANDER, OUR LEADER AND GUIDE TO VICTORY, HIS WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IN HEAVEN AND TO HIS ALMIGHTY GLORY!