Pro-Life Corner

On Friday July 11, an estimated 15 babies were aborted in Rockford.

9:00-10:30 Riverside and Forest Hills

11:30-1:00 East State Street and Alpine

1:15-2:30 Lunch at Old Country Buffet ($8.00 per person)

3:00-4:30 East State Street and Perryville Road

Why graphic abortion pictures? Because pictures Expose Lies. Photographs and films of human beings stacked like cordwood outside Nazi concentration camps exposed the murderous truth of Nazi genocide. Disturbing as these images are, we all recognize the value of squarely facing the truth of the Holocaust.

Similarly, our pictures of aborted children lay bare the blatant lies and hypocrisy used by the abortionists to conceal the wholesale slaughter of unborn babies. Photos of these aborted children rip off the mask of "choice." The truth hurts, but the lie hurts so much more. Once people have faced the truth, they are less likely to become involved in abortion.

When Christ died for us, it was in a very graphic way, a public crucifixion. His body, twisted, disfigured and covered with blood, hung on a cross for three hours in full public view. He said He had to be lifted up in order to show His love for us and to show us the seriousness of sin.

Throughout American history, all successful social reform movements, from the movement to enact child labor laws to the civil rights movement have used images that depict victims of maltreatment and violence.

Consider the case of Emmitt Till, a 14-year old black boy who whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi in 1955. Till, who was from Chicago, didn't understand that he had violated the unwritten "rules" of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed, savagely beat him, shot him in the head, and threw his body into a river. Emmitt's mother, Mamie Till, insisted on an open casket at his funeral so that the world could see "what they did to my boy." His face was battered beyond recognition, and his body had decomposed after being underwater for several days. Although his killers were acquitted by an all-white jury, the image of his mutilated body made an indelible mark in people's minds, and helped mobilize the civil rights movement. Shortly thereafter, the Montgomery bus boycott began. As a loving mother, Mamie Till wanted all to see the brutality that her son endured at the hands of violent racists. So too , out of compassion for the victims of abortion, we want all to see the brutality that they endured under the guise of "choice."

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to call 815-494-0333. Thank you and God bless.

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By Richard John Neuhaus

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1117

New Book Exposes Eugenics Mandate in Reproductive Rights Agenda

Part I: Power, Money, and Science Unite to Exterminate the World's Poor

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.

NEW YORK, NY, July 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com/C-FAM) - A book recently published by Harvard University Press explains how eugenics united some of the richest and most powerful elites of the twentieth century into a movement "to remake humanity by controlling the population of the world," answering to no one and bringing untold misery upon the world's poor.

The book, "Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population," was written by Columbia University historian Matthew Connelly and shows why today's reproductive rights advocates are "faithfully reciting a eugenic catechism without the faintest idea where it comes from or where it can lead."

In 1952, at a secret, invitation-only gathering in Colonial Williamsburg, John D. Rockefeller III brought together what would become the modern population control establishment. Setting the agenda for the following decades were the heads of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Academy of Sciences, and top scientists "from embryology to economics," including past and present Nobel Prize winners.

From verbatim transcripts of the "Conference on Population Problems," just one of the countless number of such meetings the book exposes, Connelly found that what drove them were the questions of how many people the world could hold along with "whether 'industrial development should be withheld' from poor, agrarian countries like India." By decreasing mortality and encouraging "breeding," development would increase inferior populations and further degrade "the genetic quality of the human race." They decided radical measures to reduce birth rates were justified in order to save "Western Civilization" from being dragged down by the growing humanitarian demands of Third World countries.

Thus was born the Population Council, which would in turn become the nexus of the entire population control movement, going on to coordinate the work of the United Nations, the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) - founded three weeks later - as well as major pharmaceutical firms.

The founder of IPPF, Margaret Sanger, selected for its first director general the psychologist C. P. Blacker, who called for a strategy of "crypto-eugenics," saying "you seek to fulfill the aims of eugenics without disclosing what you are really aiming at and without mentioning the word."

When Nehru presented India's first population-limitation policy in December 1952, the population establishment found a willing government that would allow them to start experimenting on its people to find a cheap contraceptive "to be used in poverty stricken slums, jungles and among the most ignorant people," as Margaret Sanger put it. Years later, Planned Parenthood would import the experiments back into poor neighborhoods in the United States. Sanger said, "I believe that now, immediately there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding t hem."

According to Connelly, it wasn't until President Lyndon Johnson, prodded by a few highly influential advisors, that American funding soared, turning Sanger's vision of forcing birth control on the world's poor into reality in India and beyond. As the initiatives gained unstoppable momentum, the brutal consequences shocked even the most enthusiastic population controllers.

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McDonalds Strikes Back at Family Boycott with Charges of "Hate"

By Peter J. Smith

OAK BROOK, Illinois, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fast food giant McDonald's is returning fire against a pro-family boycott, saying family advocates opposed to their affiliation with pro-homosexual organizations are guilty of "hate."

The American Family Association has led the boycott of McDonald's restaurants since July 3, after the global hamburger empire refused requests to remain neutral in the culture wars and to withdraw their public support from the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), a homosexual lobby that pushes same-sex "marriage."

Instead, McDonald's spokesman Bill Whitman told the Washington Post that the boycott was motivated by "hate" and McDonald's would continue to remain in the NGLCC.

"Hatred has no place in our culture," McDonald's USA spokesman Bill Whitman said. "That includes McDonald's, and we stand by and support our people to live and work in a society free of discrimination and harassment."

However, the AFA, which has over 2.2 million members, has pointed out that its boycott has nothing to do with McDonald's homosexual employees, but everything to do with McDonald's cash from its 31,000 restaurants worldwide flowing from families into anti-family endeavors.http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08070402.html