Abortion Protesters Hold Pro-Life Freedom Ride

Updated: 7/24/2010 6:49 pm
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BIRMINGHAM, AL (WIAT)--- Pro-life supporters held an anti-abortion rally in Birmingham on Saturday, calling for justice for the unborn.

Hundreds convened at the Planned Parenthood on 27th Place South for the first-ever Pro-Life Freedom Ride. The Ride was the first convoy of its kind, carrying people from Birmingham to Atlanta to speak out against abortion.

But before they departed on the Ride, they rallied together, allowing several women to speak about their abortion experiences.

"The vacuum sound reminds me of screaming. I got numb and shaken,” said one woman.

"When I got up off the table, my child was in a jar, sitting on the side and that was when I knew, that I had actually murdered my own daughter,” said another woman who regrets her abortion.

"I heard the doctor counting my baby's body parts,” said one woman as she tried to fight back the tears.

"Abortion is murder and it's first hand. Even though I had two abortions, I now know because I educated myself that it was two murders I had committed,” explained Lakisha Chapman.

Hundreds of pro-life supporters protested not only abortion, but also spoke out against the place they call, "The Killing Center.”

"Places like Planned Parenthood who do the most abortions in the United States need to be exposed for what they do and people need to come out, the Church needs to come out and speak for those who can't speak for themselves,” said Charles Gardner, a pro-life supporter.

Protesters say abortion is not a women’s issue or a religious issue. They say abortion is “a violation of civil rights of more than one million people every year.”

That is why they’re resurrecting the Freedom Rides from the 1960s, hoping to send a message: the unborn are denied inalienable rights.

Their hope is to eventually end abortion, if not through protest, then through prayer.

Dr. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life, led the Freedom Ride, along with other civil rights activists and clergy.

For more information on the Freedom Rides, go to http://www.ProLifeFreedomRides.com

 

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RitaJoseph - 7/24/2010 9:17 PM
Recognition by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the human rights of the unborn child means that a child’s temporary residence in his or her mother’s womb does not give the mother absolute ownership rights over the child. In effect, abortionists reduce the child before birth to an object, a ‘choice’, a thing of less-than-human status, suspended in a slave-like state between life and death, pending an arbitrary decision by the “owner” to abort or to keep the child. Article 8 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights codifies in law Article 4 of the Universal Declaration and explicitly prohibits slavery “in all its forms”. It is difficult to construe the condition or status of the child at risk of abortion as anything but a form of slavery, in which the concepts of ‘ownership’ and ‘absolute power’ over a dependant are used to violate human dignity and rights. * Decriminalization of abortion is essentially an attempt to effect “the destruction of the juridical personality of the victim”, the unborn child; and *the concept of a mother’s right to abort the life of her own child is certainly at the extreme end of servitude, the most extreme of “all possible forms of one person’s domination of another.” To accord mothers the “right” to abort their children is to allow them the most pernicious of all the powers attaching to the alleged rights of ownership and domination—powers of life and death. The pseudo-right to abortion stands in direct contradiction to the long, hard-won tradition of human rights and freedoms, a tradition forbidding that any one human being should have ownership and disposal rights over any other human being, no matter how small or dependent or troublesome or unwanted.

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