Fargo, North Dakota — Operation Rescue’s Truth Truck paid a visit last week to North Dakota’s only abortion clinic, the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo. The visit reportedly made abortion the talk of the town.
Truth Truck driver Mark Gietzen, Director of the Kansas Coalition For Life, joined pro-lifers outside the clinic during their 40 Days For Life prayer vigil. Gietzen was in North Dakota visiting family and spent as much time as he could at the abortion clinic supporting the local prayer effort.
“It was an eventful weekend, in a very positive way,” said Gietzen. “I gave away almost ALL of the literature that I had to strangers who came to talk about the Truth Truck. The general public was shocked by the truck, most having never seen anything like it before. Some people complimented us for having it there, and quite a number of others came over to challenge our right to display the photos on the Truth Truck.”
Gietzen said that the local pro-lifers in Fargo are a dedicated group and were very excited about having the Truth Truck in their community. They are keeping their prayer vigil round-the-clock until November 4. The day after the Truth Truck left, the pastor of the Fargo Cathedral led a procession to the abortion clinic for prayers, in honor of Respect Life Sunday, complete with server-boys in full dress, cross, candles, and a large percentage of the congregation.
Operation Rescue looks forward to returning to Fargo to lend support to the effort to close this abortion mill and make North Dakota abortion free.
As a woman recovering after an abortion, isn’t there another more loving way to go about protecting life? This “truth truck” and other such shock material is not effective in changing a womans mind about abortion but it is effective at traumitizing her even more than she already is…there are two victims with abortion and we need to love both of them.
Actually, Kelly, the graphic photos save lives. I have personally had a number of women come to me and tell me that the signs changed their minds about having abortions. Here are a couple of articles that prove that, that I found doing a quick search of this site:
http://www.operationrescue.org/?p=566
http://www.operationrescue.org/?p=222
Here is also an article written on the subject of the use of graphic signs in the public forum that may help you understand this better. http://www.operationrescue.org/files/useofgraphicsigns.PDF
Pro-aborts hate these signs. But if they were not used, babies like the ones in the articles above would be dead. Certainly the signs make people uncomfortable, but that discomfort is a small price to pay for the lives they save.
Perhaps it is time for some discomfort in this nation over child-killing. As one pro-lifer once said, if it is so bad we can’t look at it, maybe we shouldn’t be tolerating it.
What part of the truth are you still having a problem with, Kelly?
As the saying goes, Americans won’t end abortion until they see abortion. All evidence indicates the photos work– in spades! Seeing is believing.
kelly…indeed there are two victims in abortion. Why kill the baby if you “love it” ? This makes no sense.
I’m sorry if the photos hurt you Kellly. but thats the truth of what abortion is and what you chose. True healing cannot come to this nation until we all confront abortion for what it truly is. and no one has mentioned yet…but i think kids should see these photos. I am glad I saw a picture of an aborted baby at eight years of age…its what has made me pro-life and kept me from illicit sexual activity as a teen when all my friends fell into it. way to go truth trucks! I’m sure driving them around is scary. I pray for the driver…i know the hateful comments and looks I get when I just wear a pro-life T-shirt.
Thank you Rosey for KINDLY providing information to change my mind on the effectiveness of these pictures…I only had my own experience to go off of in which “loving christians” banged on my car window and screamed at me as they held these signs. I was 14 and the screams and signs didn’t express love, they just made me feel hated…which I already felt from myself and God too…it has taken me years to finally be able to find the forgiveness Jesus died to give me. I ask christians to just be sensitive to the mothers as well, before and after this “choice”. If you have never been in the situation, how can you even begin to judge us that have? You are without sin?
Kelly, I’m really sorry that pro-lifers screamed at you. I have a friend who is pregnant and previously had an abortion. She almost chose abortion again, but while she was telling me of her abortion a few years back she mentioned how picketers at the clinic called her whore and baby killer etc…I think that is horrible and I feel badly that it happened to you too. and I hope all prolifers reading this will remember that Roe was “won by love” not hate, and mothers and babies will only be saved with love not screaming and being hateful…but I still support the use of these pictures.
I have used abortion pictures, as well as the fiber optic pictures of life in the womb.[ http://www.lifeissues.org/windows.html ]
I have found the live pictures are more effective in saving babies, and do not put people off. The Passion of the Christ carried an R rating, even though it was a depiction of the truth, because the graphic imagry was too adult for young children. How can we truly honestly expose young children to imagery that would carry an R rating if it was a movie? It would be somewhat understandable if we didn’t have an alturnative, but we do. I am not against the use of aborted pictures, just their indiscriminant use at venues that cause harm, when the live picture would not and are every bit as effective [maybe more so] at conecting us with the common humanity of the womb child.
America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion. Kelly, are you sorry for your abortion?
I don’t appreciate some of the responses and insults I’ve gotten from the PC crowd either. Most of them are totally vulger! It’s a two way street.
I concur wholeheartedly with Kelly; moreover, I am so sorry for the cruelty she experienced at such a tender age. This pains me a great deal; in truth, I find it unbearable. I, too, was very young young when I biecame pregnant. I, too, was faced with the sort of prurient barbarity she faced (although I experienced this before the abortion, which was done in secret).
Kelly, have you ever read the late Pope John Paul II’s 1995 encyclical “The Gospel of Life?” In it, he specifically addresses those who have had abortions. With surpassing eloquence – and words of the greatest resonance – he exudes Christlike compassion and tenderness. These are traits all of us should exhibit – no matter what our religious beliefs may be – or what our political stance on this issue may involve.
The late pontiff broke my heart many times. Candidly, other segments of this encyclical do not move me; but what of it? In this one, shining moment, John Paul II stood tall amongst his predecessors – or his successor, for that matter.
Kelly, don’t listen to the self-righteous and the cruel. Read “The Gospel of Life”; ponder the words in your heart; and then read it again. I have done so – more than a few times. You and I may differ – politically – on this matter. To some degree at least. But none of that matters right now.
Listen to the late pontiff – not the cruel castigators. He rent my heart asunder more than once; conversely, in this singular moment in time (and a few others as well), he compelled me to love him.
Kelly, if you do not have a copy of this encyclical, just go to “Google” or “Alta Vista” or any Catholic bookstore and request a copy. Religious preference does not matter here. Healing – and understanding – are paramount.
“The late pontiff broke my heart many times. Candidly, other segments of this encyclical do not move me; but what of it? In this one, shining moment, John Paul II stood tall amongst his predecessors – or his successor, for that matter.”
Pro Choice–
If His Holiness “broke” your heart and “stood tall” for only a “moment” then, quite clearly, you have a long way to go before accepting the fullness of the Truth that John Paul II and the Church offer humanity.
But you’ve begun to see the light and I encourage you to continue seeking the truth. All truth leads to God, who is, after all, Truth itself.
One of the fundamental teachings of Christ that seems to escape you is that the sanctity of the human person– and, therefore, the right to life of the unborn– has nothing to do with the circumstances surrounding her life– not the manner by which she was conceived, her health, her prospects, her abilities or potential, her inconvenience to her mother– nothing.
No one who refers to herself as “pro-choice” (to any point) accepts this teaching; they are mutually exclusive. That is why one cannot be both Christian and pro-choice.
John Paul II and Benedict XVI were annointed Vicars of Christ by the Holy Spirit. As such, they are clear “signs of contradiction.” If we feel uncomfortable by what these men– the spiritual leaders of the entire human family– say, it’s time to re-examine our consciences toward further conversion, further conformity to Christ.
And all of us are called to further conversion; the “furthering” never ends.
Abortion is disgusting. It makes me very sad to know that millions of young women kill the little babies inside of them because of their own irresponsibility.