While it’s tragic that many people recently lost their lives during the deadliest mass shooting attack in the history of this country, there is another type of mass murdering taking place in the United States. Except this is one that happens on a daily basis and kills over 3,000 babies every single day. It’s called legalized abortion.
While the killing of the most innocent of victims continues, there is no outcry from the general public. There are no candlelight vigils for the tiny babies that will never experience their God-given destiny. Instead, this country remains eerily silent, even while over 59 million babies have been murdered since abortion became legalized across the country in 1973 following the infamous case of Roe v. Wade.
One American social reform organization that promotes prenatal justice and the right to life for the unborn, called the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) has another name for abortion. They call it genocide, which is a word that describes the systematic destruction of a national, racial, religious, political, cultural, ethnic, or other group defined by the exterminators as undesirable.
The organization feels that abortion fits this description because aborted babies are considered unwanted or undesirable. Because of their belief that abortion should be considered genocide, they have developed the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP), in which the pro-life group uses large photo murals to create visual images that compare the killing of unborn babies to that of Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the racist lynchings of African Americans.
The CBR explains they use the murals because, “visual depictions of abortion are indispensable to the restoration of that meaning because abortion represents an evil so inexpressible that words fail us when we attempt to describe its horror.”
Since 1998, the group has been displaying the murals on college campuses throughout Canada and the United States. Seven colleges located in Oregon and Washington have recently been chosen as places to exhibit the murals.
Robert Seemuth, a resident of Vancouver, Washington who has been involved with the CBR for a number of years says, “The display presents the argument that abortion is genocide; and the evidence shows it is mankind’s most terrible genocide with over 1 billion babies aborted in one century.”
He believes that the display has been effective in showing the truth about abortion while saving lives in the process and thinks the timing could not be more perfect, considering Oregon’s latest bill that allows free abortions for everyone, including illegal immigrants. Known as, “the most progressive reproductive health century” insurers in Oregon must provide 100 percent coverage for abortions without co-pays or deductibles.
Referring to the Oregon law, Seemuth says, “This means open war on the unborn with your tax dollars.”
According to CBR staff and volunteers, when a pregnant college student sees the display, it allows the opportunity for dialogue to take place, which can result in them changing their mind about aborting their baby. On one particular campus, the University of Tennessee, the exhibit caused a total of 8 young women to change their minds about going through with an abortion. The project has also helped students to change the way they view abortion and causes them to recognize that a fetus isn’t simply a blob of tissue, which is something the pro-choice community leads them to believe.
While the images of the Genocide Awareness Project are shocking, it’s not the shock-value that makes the project such a success. Instead, the CBR feels the project is successful because it is an educational outreach where students learn the truth about abortion and why it’s considered genocide.
While the display is effective, it is not without controversy. Oftentimes, pro-choice activists protest the displays, and in one instance while on the University of Calgary campus, GAP volunteers got manure thrown at them.
Critics have deemed the display “discriminatory” and that it incites contempt toward women. Some campuses have banned the project. Other opponents don’t agree with the idea of describing abortion as genocide, to which CBR responds, “the common thread connecting racism, the Holocaust, and abortion. In each case the same technique is the basis of the crime: dismiss the victim as less than human, then dispose of them.”
The Genocide Awareness Project has already been displayed on campuses in Utah and Idaho and will be headed to Washington and Oregon during the month of October.
~ Christian Patriot Daily
