I could hardly be called a “bible thumper” and Jill can say what she darn well pleases. My point is that an important pro-life message can be lost when one isn’t careful how that message is presented. What is accomplished if you turn people off to your message by sounding ignorant and bigoted? Like it or not, people will judge you by how you present a message and present yourself, and they will also judge your message by how its presented. People were not outraged over the truth of abortion, which is what is desired. Rather, they were outraged over racial and ethnic stereotypes in the message. A very good pro-life message was completely lost.
I personally find the use of stereotypes disturbing and feel their use can only hurt the cause you represent. As I said, Jill is very capable of writing good articles, but in my opinion, should be more careful of her use of certain terminology and how it comes across.

Like you I have also toured Tiller’s web page. I found it interesting that his staff was described as people with years of experience in providing compassionate abortion care. How interesting nothing was said of their education, credentials, or licensing. That’s because they have none. I’m sure we all appreciate compassionate care, but do we want our care provided by people not properly trained or licensed?

4life,
What you observed is certainly not surprising. People don’t like unpleasant facts that stare them in the face. There has to be some way to “explain” them. That’s why we have Holocaust deniers, and those who will viciously attack abuse and rape victims as “asking for it”.
You will all too often hear the most vicious vitriol spewed at people who are doing nothing more than telling people what they don’t want to hear. Ever notice how it usually comes from the very people who consider themselves such bastions of tolerance?

“Talk about pro aborts posts dripping with hate.I think I was the only pro lifer on there yesterday[besides Jill] They said that pics of aborted babies are fake and our pro life signs are garbage.They argued that a baby was not human etc.It was bad.Also,a lot of them were praising Tiller.”

–I’ve often commented that part of the problem that prolifers face is the large number of people out there who are simply uneducated about the facts of abortion, or naive, or the like.

–However, your post exposes a corollary: Some people DO know better, and/or DO know the truth, etc., but choose to ignore it. The posters you are referring to have apparently made a deliberate choice to side with the “bad guys.” This is tragic enough, for them. The fact that their position aids and abets killing of innocents is even worse. One site, Imnotsorry.net, is positively spine chilling. These people are just really, really scary. Many appear villed with venomous hate not only for babies, women, men, etc. — in short, for the whole human race.

–Praising Tiller? Claiming the pix are fake? I suspect many who do these things know in their hearts that they are wrong, but they simply want to avoid having to make the right, if difficult, moral choices. Claiming pictures are fake is a lot easier than admitting that if they are real, then maybe abortion shouldn’t be used as a means of birth control…

When I saw his photo and his nice placid grin and his unassuming looks, I couldn’t help but think of Shakespeare’s comment that one may “smile, and smile, and be a villain.”