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CBR visits the University of Houston in Texas this week.  Here is an email exchange between a University of Houston student and CBR directory Gregg Cunningham:

Pro-abortion students at the University of Houston protest CBR's Genocide Awareness Project (GAP).

Dear Ms. M,

Regarding your complaints concerning our Genocide Awareness Display at the University of Houston:

First of all, you dispute our reference to abortion as “genocide” and challenge us to “Google” the word “Darfur” to learn what “genocide” really is.  Your invocation of Darfur is clear evidence that you don’t understand the controversy over the definition of genocide in Sudan.  Your assertion that abortion is not genocide perfectly mirrors the Sudanese argument that the ethnic cleansing of black Africans by ethnic Arab militias (and the uninformed military) in Muslim Darfur is not genocide.  Our Congress and our President and our Secretary of State have all declared the mass murder in Darfur to be genocide.  They used horrifying pictures, just as we do, to make their case.  But the United Nations and Amnesty International argue that crimes against humanity in Darfur are not genocide.  History proves that the definition of genocide evolves over time in a process which is often marked by disputation.  People who care about ending crimes against humanity usually call them genocide.  People who don’t care usually call them something else.  Your lack of concern for the unborn closely parallels the Sudanese lack of concern for the black Africans of Darfur.  So neither of you are willing to call these atrocities genocide.

Which brings us to your second point:  You boast that you “were not shocked by our graphic images.”  We acknowledge that we are not “shocked” by your boast.  You define yourself as “100% pro-choice.”  Our images aren’t aimed at people who are fanatical pro-aborts.  They are aimed at people who are open-minded with respect to abortion.  Most pro-aborts are more ignorant than evil.  Showing them who the baby really is and what abortion really does to him/her, is usually enough to change their minds. Our pictures work wonders for those who only lack a fundamental understanding of abortion.  But for those who lack a functioning conscience, the pictures don’t matter because the facts don’t matter.  Their devotion to the Culture of Death transcends mere facts and becomes an article of faith.

As for your third point, the greatest contribution you could have made to the success of our abortion photo display at the University of Houston was to have helped draw attention to it by joining a counter-demonstration, and the larger and louder the better.  Nothing attracts crowds like conflict and the more vigorously you oppose our presence, the more influential you make that presence.  Thank you for amplifying the impact of our exhibit.

Finally, your defiant financial contribution to Planned Parenthood is by far your most anemic rejoinder.  Planned Parenthood’s annual revenue now tops one BILLION dollars.  They are rolling in cash.  They have so much money they can’t figure out what to do with all of it.  Our pictures change everything for everyone with even a rudimentary sense of right and wrong.  Your financial contribution changes nothing.  Our pictures for your donation is a trade-off we will eagerly make any day of the week.

We are praying for you Ms. M and we don’t say that with the slightest condescension.  God loves you and wants to forgive you, if only you will humble yourself, repent and allow Him to embrace you in the Name of Christ.  In your heart-of-hearts, you know that you aren’t really comfortable with your position on abortion.  You also know that all is not right with your life spiritually.  Our prayer is that you will pray about these important matters.

Lord bless,

Gregg Cunningham
Executive Director

From: Ms. M
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:58 PM
To: Gregg Cunningham
Subject: inspired by the GAP project

To the directors and members of the Center for Bio-ethical Reform:

After seeing your presentation at the University of Houston this week, I was shocked into awareness. I would like to share the effects that your presentation has had on me.

However, I was not shocked by your graphic images. What shocked me was your utter lack of respect for women who are put in difficult situations and have to make difficult choices. I was shock by your egregious violations of basic vocabulary, such as genocide. (Google “Darfur” if you want to know what genocide is. Your appropriation of this term to your cause is ludicrous.)

I am now and have been for most of my adult life, 100% pro-choice. I do not usually feel the need to take political action or support groups that advocate for a woman’s right to choose abortion. However, your presentation changed this for me. Not only did I stand with a crowd of people protesting your display, I have signed up to make a monthly contribution to Planned Parenthood.

So here’s the effect your presentation has had on me: not only am I more committed than ever to being pro-choice, I am donating some of my hard-earned money to Planned Parenthood. Looks like the bad guys are winning. And you have only yourselves to thank.

Sincerely,
A pro-choice college senior

GAP Returns to State College Today

Dear Pro-Life Friend,

I Timothy 2:2 reads, “And the things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also …” This passage speaks of the multi-generational transmission of truth. CBR’s mission is to fulfill this command by raising up pro-life leaders to carry the message of the unalienable right to life to future generations. PLI trains. GAP reaches the masses. On September 27, PLI will equip Penn State students in pro-life apologetics and then take them out onto the campus on September 28-29 to use their newly acquired knowledge.

Claire Nelson, Vice President of PSU’s Students for Life, is excited about the upcoming events on her campus:

We the Students for Life are very pleased to welcome the Genocide Awareness Project to the Penn State campus this year. We hope to raise awareness and create meaningful discussion throughout the student body. We believe GAP will facilitate much need debate on an otherwise apathetic campus. This demonstration will be one of our biggest events this year and we can’t wait to see how students will react.

With your help, Claire Nelson is another in a long line of college students who can be influenced by GAP.

YOUR SPECIAL FINANCIAL GIFT WILL HELP US RECRUIT YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE CLAIRE NELSON. WE NEED MORE PEOPLE WORKING FULL TIME TO SAVE BABIES THAN THERE ARE WORKING FULL TIME TO KILL THEM. YOUR GIFT OF $250, OR $100 HELPS US PURCHASE NEEDED RESOURCES LIKE PAMPHLETS AND SIGNS FOR PLI AND GAP AT PENN STATE UNIVERSITY.

The Pro-Life Institute and GAP deliver the one-two punch of training and outreach. Many groups educate. Few motivate. And even fewer provide real time experience in defending ttue with their peers. Here are the dates for upcoming events:

·         September 28-29 – GAP at Penn State University (Day 1 – Palmer Art Museum , Day 2 – Pattee Library)

To send a check, write to:

CBR
PO Box 360503
Columbus, OH 43236

Read CBR’s September 2009 update here.

For more information contact Mark Harrington at 614-759-5195 or mark@cbrinfo.org

Mark Harrington is also the Executive Director of CBR Midwest, and President of Pro-Life Institute

CBR and Pastor Clenard Childress of Blackgenocide.org also came to educate attendees of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peopled (NAACP) national convention held in New York City last week.  See pictures and read the story here.

From: Rachel L. Solomon [mailto:rachel.l.solomon@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:45 PM
To: Gregg Cunningham
Subject: Regarding “pro-abortion”

Dear CBR,

My name is Rachel Solomon and I am a student at the University of Washington and a reporter for The Daily, the school’s student newspaper. The Genocide Awareness Project visited our campus this week and I reported on it. I do not wish to comment on the graphic images on display, as my own views are quite contrary to the ones expressed - a fact that, I might add, did not come into play in my unbiased news reporting. Instead, I would like to comment on your groups use of the term “pro-abortion” to describe those who are not “pro-life.”

The activists who oppose GAP and the pro-life movement are not pro-abortion; they are instead accurately described as possessing the opinions of “pro-choice” or “abortion rights.” “Pro-abortion” is a horrible misnomer that implies that these people push for abortions as the only way of dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. Rather, the reality is that this side often views abortion as a last resort. No one advocates FOR abortions. They advocate for THE OPTION to have an abortion.

I would greatly appreciate it if, in the future, you would correctly describe those who hold differing viewpoints from your own. Thank you very much.

Rachel

Dear Ms. Solomon,

Thank you for your note and for your fairly balanced coverage of our Genocide Awareness Project at The University of Washington.  My only criticism of your reportage is that you chose to suppress the facts surrounding our dispute with the administration over the location of our display site.  School officials wanted to push us into a much more obscure corner of Red Square and only relented after we retained legal counsel and threatened a lawsuit in writing.  Those are newsworthy events which your readership will now never know.

But in addition to that indiscretion, I must also take issue with your assertion that our characterization of the pro-abortion position on abortion as “pro-abortion,” is a “misnomer.”  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Your accusation is intellectually dishonest.  Imagine a Nazi having the effrontery to say “I’m not pro-Holocaust, I just don’t think it should be against the law to kill Jews.”  Or try “I am not pro-rape, I think sexual assaults against women should only be legal when men commit them as a last resort.”  Or “I am not pro-slavery, I merely believe whites should have the OPTION to enslave blacks.  At various times and in various places, Jews and women and African Americans were widely viewed as sub-human and were consequently denied rights of personhood.  In fact there are still plenty of countries in which it is effectively legal to kill Jews, rape women and enslave blacks. 

People who support the right to kill a baby are understandably embarrassed by that fact so they seek to conceal the truth with the same crude, word games played by Southerners who said they didn’t advocate slavery, they advocated States’ Rights.  To this day, historical revisionists deny that the Civil War had anything to do with slavery.  But the truth is that when a Klansman uses the term “States’ Rights,” he means the rights of states to legalize slavery.  You may play head games with your liberal classmates, Ms. Solomon, but not with us.  If you think it should be legal to kill babies, you are pro-baby-killing.

Again, thank you for relatively fair coverage of our project.

Lord bless,

Gregg Cunningham

CBR  

CBR brought the Genocide Awareness Project to the University of Washington in Seattle this week.  Those who act out violently against CBR’s public display of graphic abortion images or deface signs must pay the legal price for their actions. CBR takes these acts seriously to show that violations of free speech anywhere will not be tolerated.

You can read more about pro-abortion violence toward CBR by clicking here:  http://www.abortionno.org/GAP/violence/violence.html