The Daily Kent Stater Editorial Board Has No Conscience (Response to the article posted below)

The Daily Kent Stater Editorial “We’re Only Losing Our Appetites” (Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007) makes CBR Midwest’s point loud and clear. The Stater Editorial Board lost more than their appetites; they lost their capacity to possess a functioning conscience.

The “consensus opinion” of the board called our abortion pictures “horrific.” They stated that students will be “angered at the sight of the billboard.” Why would anyone be angered by a picture of an abortion? I thought that abortion simply represented the removal of a blob of tissue during a benign medical procedure. If abortion is such a good idea, a constitutional right, then why would a picture of it be “horrific” and anger people?

The answer is simple: abortion is an indefensible act of violence that kills a baby, and the photographic evidence of that injustice speaks louder than words. “Adults” and those “mature enough to have critical thinking skills” like those on the Stater Editorial board have become part the problem regarding abortion. The Stater’s Editorial uses the rhetorical coping mechanism of changing the subject to hide their complicity in baby killing.

Words fail to adequately describe injustice. Could you imagine attempting to describe the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon in words alone? After viewing the tragic events of 911, how much more information did Americans need to know about Islamic terrorism? Answer: Not much. It was the images of 911 alone that united our nation against terrorism. The difference is Americans did not attack themselves on 911. However, many Americans are responsible for abortion killing and trying real hard to find arguments to justify it.

Finally, the Stater is right about one thing. “Public opinion is still split the same way it has been for years” on abortion despite over three decades of “debate.” This is because when someone says “abortion is murder,” they are dismissed as only stating their opinion. But when someone shows a photo of a baby tortured to death by abortion that no longer represents an opinion, but it represents the incontrovertible evidence of a crime.

CBR Midwest believes in having informed “grown up conversations” on abortion. However, a discussion of abortion WITHOUT the accompanying evidence of the killing is wholly inadequate. The Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) combines the evidence of abortion along with the arguments against it.

I wonder if the Stater would welcome GAP to the campus because it “creates a dialogue?” For some reason I anticipate that they will denounce GAP too?

Mark Harrington
Executive Director
Center for Bio Ethical Reform Midwest
P.O. Box 360503
Columbus, OH 43236
Tel. 614-759-5195
Fax 614-759-5194
Cell 614-419-9000
Website: www.abortionno.org