Bellevue, NE — A news article covering the May 2 arrests of seven members of Rescue the Heartland for conducting a prayer vigil in the neighborhood of abortion worker Sherry Hron has appeared in the Omaha World-Herald. It includes a great picture of Rescuers praying at partial-birth abortionist LeRoy Carhart’s mill with the Truth Truck.
“We fully expect Larry Donlan and the other members of Rescue the Heartland to be fully exonerated. The First Amendment is solidly on the side of the pro-lifers. They are using the Truth Truck to raise the awareness of the community about the tragedy of abortion and save lives. We are proud to partner with them,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
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I am from Omaha and I just saw the front page of the Omaha World Hearld. I did not know about your group and I would like to say THANK YOU! I am glad people complained and were disturbed by the reality of your abortion photos. I am glad your group shows the truth. If people think abortion is OK then why did they call the police when they were showen the truth? Thanks for your hard work! Elizabeth, Omaha Nebraska
I understand that if you show photos of aborted babies in places where abortion is not legal or not practiced, you get a much more compassionate response. People without babies’ skeletons in their closets respond with sorrow for the babies, not anger at the messengers.
Just recently I heard a woman whining that because someone she knew had had an abortion, the pictures should be hidden, lest this woman become upset. Murderers always do find exposure of evidence against them disturbing, and want to keep it under wraps…but doing so generally puts more potential victims at higher risk than exposing the truth.
Keep up the good work!
I personally think the truth trucks are a good idea. The “offense” lies in the message and I think they are a classic example of free speech.
Trying to think critically about the subject, I think the only objection I can come up with which I can’t really get around is with respect to children old enough to be frightened by the pictures and/or to know what they are looking at, but young enough to be innocent, i.e. some children are just too young IMHO to be exposed to the horrors of abortion. Woe be to him who robs a child of his/her innocense. I don’t know how you get around that. It’s a tough call but the alternative is to outlaw the truth trucks, and I am not down with that (even if such outlawing were lawful, and it isn’t).
A similiar story like this article also appeared in my local paper (I’m from Lincoln, NE). I read the article online. I’m actually surprised the grandchild didn’t recognize a baby. :( (in the Lincoln paper a woman was quoted as saying her grandchild asked “what is that”?
To the grandma in the article: How about telling your grandchild the truth? That’s the reality of abortion.
To Frank (and anyone else concerned),
I think you have overrated children’s innocence, for one; I also think you have overrated the real concern of people who use small children as human shields for their attacks on public displays of abortion atrocity.
The real robbers of childhood innocence are, in my view, those who teach their children, upon viewing the sort of images shown on truth trucks, to hate the messengers rather than to pity the victims shown in the message, and try to save them.
The fact is, ever since NARAL, PP, the Supreme Court, et al, declared open war on the unborn via Roe/Doe in 1973, every person has since been forced into that war, and forced to choose whether (s)he will side with the killers, or on behalf of their targeted victims. One may debate at what age one becomes accountable for his/her choice, but what is not debatable is that the older have a duty to train up children in the way that is right, and that children will generally, at some point, follow the bent to which their training inclines them.
I know of small children who have been publicly displaying the graphic horror of abortion practically since they could walk, and of even smaller children whose lives have been saved as a result of these displays. Both the victims, whether they are saved or not, and those who did what they could to save them, are truly innocent. Those who would not even try to save them, but scorn those who do and teach their children to do likewise, are the truly guilty.
I doubt whether many children, viewing a graphic photo, don’t know that they are looking at a baby. “What’s that” might, generally, be more accurately interpreted as “What’s with that?”, or “What happened to that baby?”. One might say, “some bad mommies/people do very bad things to babies they don’t want”. Of course, that’s an understatement, but it’s the most age-appropriate think I can think of for the 3-5 age group.
Yes, the photos are distressing to the sensitive of any age, even if they are innocent of participation in the atrocities the photos depict; but the bottom line is that anyone of conscience will be impacted by seeing them, and not in favor of abortion. Furthermore, such people-of any age- can not only recover from such a disturbance, but be better for it, whereas the victims of the atrocities shown never recover from, and are never demonstrably better for, being tortured to death.
I saw a bumpersticker once that read, “Education cuts never heal”…Can’t necessarily agree with that; some types of “education” should be obliterated in the public interest. But “Choice” cuts never heal, “CUTS THAT NEVER HEAL”…now those would be accurate captions for a truth truck display.
Even if someone were truth trucking from the twisted motive of gratuitous effrontery (unlikely, given the crap to which such people are routinely subjected) in a culture that provided the unborn with effective legal protection from induced abortion and other abuses (you know, like moms smoking or doing drugs while pregnant, dads beating pregnant moms, etc.), the amount of alleged “damage” done by it couldn’t begin to touch the damage done to all members of society–of all ages– by the legalized murder of children in the womb, or the damage done to the souls of children taught to fear/hate politically incorrect people trying to save the truly innocent. Does anybody remember a group of youngsters called the Hitler Youth? They didn’t pity innocent victims unjustly sentenced to die, and they didn’t care much for political dissidents who did, either…but many of them did grow up to become, logically enough, though most unnaturally, some of the most hardened, brutal, and therefore responsible (and, therefore, ACCOUNTABLE) perpetrators of the Third Reich’s atrocities. And in Germany, it all started with denying the right to life to the unborn. About 30 years later, it spread to the handicapped, the mentally ill…then to the elderly, then the racially, ideologically “unfit”…And we aren’t so far behind as you might think. Kyrie Eleison.
Life lynx,
I don’t really disagree with a lot of your post, since I’m actually in favor of the use of “truth trucks.”
Saying, “some bad mommies/people do very bad things to babies they don’t want” is probably not a bad response at all to a 3-5 year old.
However, I must respectfully disagree with your statement that I have “overrated children’s innocence, for one.” Is innocence of a child ever “overrated?” After all, Jesus’ message was that we all should become as little children. Children grow up way, way too fast these days, much faster than in past generations (not the least of which, in part, is because of the culture we live in, where abortion, drugs, violence in mainstream media, etc., are much more prevalent than in past generations. Are you saying that such forced adulthood is a good thing?
But that aside, I like the remainder of what you’ve written.
I first saw a picture of an aborted baby when I was eight. Its that picture of a nearly full term infants’s head being held over a jar with forceps. I’m sure you all know which one I refer to.
I was crushed. I remember sobbing, and running to my mother who explained what an abortion was. when I realized that people were allowed to kill their babies I became pro-life in that moment, and ending abortion became my greatest “cause” in life. as a child I identified with the fetus, and the thought that someone could’ve killed me ( I was born in 1980–abortion was legal) angered and horrified me.
When I became a woman, and most recently a mother, I began to feel such sorrow for women who choose abortion and anger for their blindness. Showing photos of abortion is a proper thing. as long as people tolerate abortion, we must show them what they are tolerating. I would be glad for my son to see these photos someday, and maybe it will strengthen his resolve against fornication as it strengthened mine. I knew as a teen never to put myself in that situation.
Go truckers go! End the murder of babies through abortion now! If these babies are tough enough to receive the slaughter treatment, then kids and adults alike are tough enough to see the results. Kids can take hearing anything, (it’s adults that can’t) it’s how it’s being told to them that makes the difference. Besides, in today’s society kids are growing up very fast. We throw them into pre-school before they have a chance to take a few breaths. Tell the child to pray to Jesus that this madness stops.
you’re totally right Stacey. We want to vaccinate them against STD’s at 10 years old and teach them how to use condoms in grade school then get angry when they’re shown the aftermath of abortion. its ridiculous.