Elizabeth's Letter to the Editor About Missionaries to the Preborn Abortion Protest in Zanesville, Ohio
I want to personally thank all those who came to Zanesville on Aug. 7 to show the painful but powerful pictures of what abortion does to innocent American children. I am sympathetic with the concern of the two mothers who wrote letters of outrage at the Maple Ave. display, but I couldn't help but wonder if they thought about the suffering of those helpless babies in the womb. My young children saw the pictures as well and were not traumatized in the least. To them it is simple - "Mommy, why would people do that to their own baby?"
I heard another local mother who saw the display while riding in the car with her children say that it gave her a wonderful opportunity to speak to her children about the horror of abortion and the importance of abstinence.
Do I like those bloody pictures being shown? Of course not. Oh, for the day when it will no longer be necessary! But people had to come from around the nation to remind us what "choice" looks like, because the media has censored the preborn child from the abortion debate. Notice that the Times Recorder did not even utter a word of the group's display, except letters in opposition to it! You can't argue with the pictures can you? The lies about the baby just being a "blob of tissue" crumble upon sight of those pictures.
Do you remember seeing the pictures of the corpses of Nazi Holocaust victims and how outraged you were...not at the one showing you the picture...but at the ones who slaughtered those innocent Jews? Where are our tears on behalf of these modern holocaust victims?
I am sorry Zanesville had to see those pictures, but not for the same reason as the outraged mothers who wrote letters to the editor last week. I am sorry because my heart breaks for the 50 million innocent Americans who have died a cruel death because of our apathy and silence. When something is so gruesome that we can't stand to look at it, perhaps we shouldn't be tolerating it.