Battling Billboards
I posted previously on the Knights of Columbus in Madison, Wisconsin putting up "I regret my abortion" billboards that has had some very positive effects. Now the same thing is happening in Tulsa by Catholic Charities.
Tulsa - A battle for hearts and minds is expanding across the Tulsa area. Catholic Charities and Planned Parenthood are expressing their concerns on a big scale.
The Catholic Diocese has now paid for ten billboards advertising a retreat that offers counseling to those who have had an abortion. The two groups don't see each other as opponents, but they have very different goals.
"We want to offer a message of hope to both men and women who are suffering from the pain of an abortion," says Mary Lee Ingram with Catholic Charities. "Most people would be surprised to know that by the time a woman is 45, one in three will have had an abortion in the United States."
"I think anything we can do to make it easy to access birth control prevents unwanted children," says Nancy Kechel with Planned Parenthood. "And, I am terribly concerned about what happens to unwanted children."
They say too many of those kids end up with problems like drugs or criminal records. Planned Parenthood has their ads on bus shelters. They want people to know that money is not an obstacle if they need help.
Wow if only we could route out all those unwanted kids any results of pregnancies that were not directly unintended. We could round them up and kill them and imagine all the crime and drug related problems we could prevent.
Seriously though hats off to Catholic Charities in Tulsa for such a worthwhile effort.
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This is an expansion of an ongoing media battle here in Tulsa. It started last year with a PP billboard campaign that said "Birth Control is Easy." A group of Catholics got together and put up billboards that said "Birth Control is Harmful." The first group was not official, but had the blessing of the diocese. Now the diocese has joined the fight.
Wow this is great. Finally a diocese that is standing up and supporting such a great cause when so many others are silent. Great stuff!
I just love the implication by PP: children that are wanted don't committ crimes. Wow. I never learned that in ANY of my Juvenile Justice classes, nor was it something that came to my attention when working with emotionally disturbed children. Most were wanted children with screwed up parents.
I know; let's just kill all the parents who screw up their kids? First they can have the children, wanted or unwanted, and then we'll just euthanize the adults who procreated to be sure they don't mess up their kids.
The logic is the same as PP's.
The Diocese of Tulsa has also purchased land across the street from an abortion clinic there.
PP has yet to prove that their hand-it-out-like-candy approach to birth control has had any effect other than giving us a society that values life less.
How's that "every child a wanted child" campaign going? You would think people would notice its failure after 40 years.
Don't try mentioning that to a liberal; I had a serious blow out with my lib sister-in-law when I said to her, "we are the most sexually knowlegable and birth-controlled generation in world history, yet abortions, illegitimacy and child abuse are at epidemic levels. Please explain."
Liberals can't stand the truth.