Pro-Abortion Forces' Latest Outrages Concern Pro-Family Advocates
by Bill Fancher, Jenni Parker, and Rusty Pugh
August 10, 2005
(AgapePress) - The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) has launched a half-million dollar ad campaign designed to sink Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' confirmation hopes. The first of these anti-Roberts ads have begun running on television, and Bob Knight of the Culture and Family Institute says they make use of sinister tactics to sway public opinion against the high court nominee.
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For instance, Knight claims the TV ads employ the guilt-by-association technique. "This is the kind of propaganda you'd see in Nazi Germany," he says, "where they'd put up terrible images and then put up pictures of Jews, and then people would connect the two." But in the case of the NARAL ads, he explains, "You have a poor disfigured woman from an abortion clinic bombing, and then they put up a picture of Judge Roberts, blaming him for this terrible violence -- all because he decided in an abortion clinic case that women who were seeking abortions were not a traditional civil rights class."The Culture and Family Institute spokesman considers the NARAL ads absurd but is nevertheless fearful they may cause problems for Bush's Supreme Court nominee. "For upholding the rights of pro-life demonstrators, that means Judge Roberts caused this woman's disfigurement in a bombing? I mean, it's ludicrous," Knight says, "but, you know, with people not paying attention, people sitting in airline lounges looking up, just seeing the images, it could do him some damage."
Then again, the anti-Roberts propaganda pieces could also do some damage to NARAL in the form of a backlash against such ridiculous assertions, Knight says. But while he is calling attention to the underhanded tactics being employed by that "abortion rights" organization, another pro-family leader is pointing out an even more outrageous attempt to promote the pro-abortion cause.
NARAL's ads accuse Judge Roberts of having, while he worked in the first President Bush's solicitor general's office, filed briefs in support of "violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber." But Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, says the "contemptible ad" implies that Roberts favors violence against fellow Americans, when Roberts actually states in his oral arguments in the case and in other communications that "no matter how lofty or sincerely held the goal, those who resort to violence to achieve it are criminals."
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But Perkins says if NARAL would like to find a fringe group that truly does advocate violence, they might only need to look to Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, a San Francisco affiliate of that other leading abortion advocacy group, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Up until recently, PPGG's website featured a cartoon depicting the group's CEO as a superhero who murders peaceful abortion protesters with a "condom gun." At press time, the link to that cartoon was inactive. Still, pro-lifers like Perkins are critical of PPGG's tactics."Advocating violence is a serious offense, even in cartoon form," Perkins observes. He commends Judge Roberts for making clear his views of those who would resort to violence to prove their point and wonders whether NARAL will do the same by condemning Planned Parenthood's "violence-inciting" cartoon.
PPFA's 'Superhero' Seemingly for Slaying Pro-Lifers
The animated feature on the PPGG website portrayed pro-lifers as evil and stupid and depicted violence against them in what some might call a gleefully vicious manner. The eight-minute video is called "Superhero for Choice" and, among other things, it shows characters drowning an abstinence supporter in a trash can, dropping a pro-life senator in a vat of boiling water, bombing Christian pro-life picketers, and even decapitating a pro-life protester.
Jim Sedlak is with the American Life League's STOPP International, an organization that works to oppose the programs of Planned Parenthood. He is outraged over the "Superhero for Choice" cartoon and notes, "The whole message of this animated short is that if you disagree with Planned Parenthood, then they want to do violent things to either get rid of you or make you change your mind."
Sedlak says the pro-abortion animated feature glorifies violence against people of faith, and that it is "absolutely outrageous that a national organization that receives $265 million a year in taxpayer money should produce such a thing and put it on their website." Moreover, he contends there would be a huge media and public outcry if a pro-life group such as the American Life League featured a cartoon character blowing up pro-abortion activists or otherwise subjecting them to violence.
"In this post-9/11 era of terrorism, Planned Parenthood has recklessly crossed the line by promoting violence against people who do not share the organization's radical beliefs," the STOPP International spokesman says. The actions of the pro-abortion organization are reprehensible, he asserts, because "there is no guarantee that someone viewing this video might not act on its suggestions and instigate violence against people of faith."
Sedlak says the Superhero for Choice feature demonstrates Planned Parenthood's "complete disrespect for human life, and ALL is demanding that the abortion provider "issue a public apology without delay to pro-life Christians everywhere for inciting violence against them." He adds that his organization also demands the public release of all the names of those involved in the development and posting of this "appalling animation," and that those individuals be immediately dismissed.
