50,000 Views

As you know, we have a handful of our protest videos posted online. Recently — in the past month or so — the viewership of our Chad Smalley video has been growing exponentially. This is fortuitous because not only do viewers get to witness the irrational vitriol and violence which so commonly spews from pro-abortionists, but they also get to see the mangled, blood-drenched bodies of 10 week old babies killed by abortion – many for the first time. The video has been posted for well over a year now, and has almost 50,000 views. A month ago it was at 30,000. We are getting almost a thousand views a day now. (If you haven’t already seen it, watch below [Warning: extreme language].) Naturally, the number of comments made on the video is also increasing exponentially. Someone just wrote in complaining that the word “babies” is emotionally charged, and that we should only be referring to them as “fetuses.” Using the maximum character limit, here was Tom’s reply: “Fetus” is used deliberately as it makes them seem less human. In order to kill other innocent human beings, it is always necessary to first de-humanize them. It is why in 1857 the Supreme Court declared blacks “a subordinate and inferior class of beings.” It is why Hitler described Jews as “parasites” in Mein Kampf. As Ben Stein wrote, “Pro-aborts are like the Germans who refused to think about what was happening at Dachau and then vomitted when they saw and never wanted to see again.” You can read the 1,500 other comments, or join the conversation yourself by visiting the...

Pregnancy Resource Services Fundraiser with Scott Klusendorf

Pregnancy Resource Services, a crisis pregnancy clinic in Bremerton, WA, held a banquet this past week which featured nationally known, pro-life speaker, Scott Klusendorf of the Life Training Institute. Scott gave a fantastic talk on how pro-lifers can make a clear and convincing case for life. You can watch similar talks on YouTube. Afterward, ACP Directors, Tom Herring and Andrew St.Hilaire got to meet Scott and tell him a bit about the ACP. ACP Directors, Tom Herring (Left) and Andrew St.Hilaire (Right) with Scott Klusendorf What Scott Klusendorf has to say about the use of graphic images in the fight against abortion: When it comes to moral persuasion, many times images of death work better than images of life. To cite a parallel example, the modern environmental movement got its start with graphic pictures in the late 1960’s. As activist Jerry Mander points out in his book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, initial attempts to mobilize public support for preservation of the giant redwoods produced a giant public yawn. Breathtaking photographs of majestic trees, though inspiring, did little to incite public anger at the timber industry. So, activists took a lesson from the Vietnam War. Instead of showing pictures of pre-cut trees in all their glory, environmentalists began circulating before and after photos. ‘We started carrying around photos of acres of stumps where hundreds of redwoods had been cut down. I don’t know if you have ever seen a field of tree stumps, but it is a horrific sight, not unlike a battlefield.’ The public outcry was immediate. ‘At that moment,’ Mander concludes, ‘I realized that death...