Pro-Life activists caused a stir yesterday by displaying abortion imagery at a Brighton campus.
Christians from Abort67 stood outside Sussex University with the graphic pictures as the students turned up in their hundreds for lectures.
The banners the activists used had only recently been returned to them following their acquittal on public order charges by Brighton Magistrates last month. The material had been held by Brighton Police since their arrests last year.
Andy Stephenson of Abort67 was asked about the location of the witness and said yesterday: ‘Why university campuses? Because not only are 19-24 year olds having significant numbers of abortions, but this is where our future leaders are.
‘We saw people change their minds in this way today. One guy who was studying nursing at another university talked at length with the team and left saying he was going to try and get us a three hour lecture spot for his medical faculty. Others included a Law student who moved significantly in his position.’
Pro-abortion students mounted a counter-demonstration after a couple of hours, standing in front of the pictures shouting and swearing in the hope that people wouldn’t notice the pro-life witness.
Andy Stephenson continued: ‘I am fairly certain that the rest of the day, the only topic of conversation on campus was abortion. Indeed before I even had a chance to unpack our things, a blogger at Huffington Post responded with an article.
‘It is unlikely (though not impossible) that those so entrenched in their pro-death position will ever move, but they are not our target audience. A majority of people are just plain ambivalent about abortion. These are the ones with functioning consciences and enough intellectual honesty to recognise they have been lied to about who the baby is and what abortion will do to him/her.
‘I am always amazed that pro-aborts don’t see the irony in what they blindly recite over and over. If people are distressed by what they believe to be a noble choice, it is because abortion is a distressing act. Of course, we are grateful for the coverage and the inclusion of one of our graphic images that will now be seen by countless people.
‘Do the pictures work? The pro-aborts think so.’
Please sign our simple online petition to Parliament to repeal the 1967 Abortion Act:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/repealtheabortionact/
See our previous story: 18/09/2012: Anti-abortion activists win their case
I ran the gauntlet, yesterday, of a Socialist Worker / pro-choice movement demonstrating outside Parliament. According to their posters ‘Why are Women Being Silenced’ and ‘Women’s Place is in the Boardrooms’ – yet the irony was not lost on me as they were also parading ‘A Woman’s Right to Choose’: surely if female foetuses had allowed to live they would have become the career women (in boardrooms) as well as female MPs.
Therefore: a generation lost, also it’s easy to be pro-choice when you’re not the one being chosen (the last is a quote).
Ashley, the irony is that in some cultures it is considered acceptable to abort female babies merely because they are females and the ‘pro-choice’ lobby says nothing. Certain ‘clinics’ in the UK including one not far from where I live have agreed illegally to undertake ‘gender selective’ abortion and none of the ‘pro choice’ lobby says a word about that either. In India, it is known that those who cannot afford a scan and abortion will sometimes kill the girl babies once they are born, the gender imbalance in India, Pakistan and China is a ticking bomb.
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As a student who passed by the campaign and was stopped by one of your members, I found it to be invasive and uncomfortable, having no effect upon my opinion regarding the subject. I also find it incredulous that you have written that a woman who may undergo an abortion must have no ‘functioning conscience’, and ask you to wonder why some students retaliated in the way that they did. The whole affair seemed to be very ‘un-Christian’ as, to my shock upon finding this article, it is.
Ha! So it’s un-Christian to stand up for the defenceless and speak the truth, is it? Don’t worry, Rebecca, just because you are so hard-hearted that images of death and cruelty do not touch you, there are many more people who have a conscience and a functioning human heart who are touched by them. Thank God for Abort67. It’s about time someone lifted the veil on abortion and told it like it is.
Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Pro 24:11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; 12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works? (both quotes KJV)