AIRPORT EDUCATION PROJECT



CONSUMER PROTECTION INITIATIVE



AN APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS AND FUNDING DATE: SAT JULY 29TH - SUN AUG 13TH

LOCATION: DUBLIN/CORK AIRPORT AND CITY CENTRE



VOLUNTEERS: 7 - 8 display particpants



FUNDING: Please see article below OTHERS:

Experience in photography/videography

Video editing

Graphic design If you would like to participate in this education project please get in touch: info@icbr.ie



For donations you can use the tab below or cheque to 'Irish Centre for Bio-ethical Reform'



For bank transfer:

Account Number: 43891043

IBAN: IE09AIBK93537943891043

BIC: AIBKIE2D DONATE TOWARDS AIRPORT PROJECT DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. To know whether abortion photos are effective simply watch abortion activists respond. They routinely stand over our images and attempt to silence those revealing or expressing a countervailing opinion on abortion. That's because they don’t have a compelling sign with which to challenge or counter photographic evidence. Take for example the time we were trailing after the Dutch-based Bus abortion promoters ‘ROSA’ were travelling in across the country in March to facilitate chemical abortions of baby’s up to the 10th week of pregnancy. We had every reason to believe that young, vulnerable women on seeing the images of abortion’s victims in their first trimester would exercise their bodily autonomy by choosing life-affirming options for their babies. We knew this because it happens wherever in the world CBR operates its graphic education displays. Many women have told us that they wish they had seen our images before they had an abortion, not after. Not long into the tour outraged pro-aborts routinely stood with their signs in such a way to cover up our abortion photo’s. Even if it meant pouring across the road and holding up the traffic. We had an anorak clad vandal (hiding their identity), in full view of several hundred people, cross the road and spray paint over the image of a 10-week aborted baby with impunity. Others used permanent markers to slash at the images and another threatened to slash our image of a living 7-week embryo using a knife. Obviously they feel they don’t have a compelling sign with which to challenge or counter what they’re seeing! And with good reason. How is it that these photo’s cause many pro-aborts to go apoplectic on seeing the very thing they’re trying to promote – abortion! These are medically accurate depictions of what someone has done to an unborn baby and their authenticity has been well attested. So, if seeing this is way too awful, then why would we make it lawful? Why promote what we cannot tolerate to view. However, pro-aborts covering up and vandalizing the images of abortion is a suitable metaphor for the efforts exerted by the abortion industry and its allies in attempting to 'vandalize' and cover-up the reality of abortion by sophistry and spin. BPAS Fee Structure Marie Stopes Fee Structure That is why we intend on standing at the airport with our airport themed images as part of our consumer protection initiative. We will show their ‘consumer client’ what they would never dare to – abortion reality. That’s because it’s bad for business and bad for an industry that profits from abortion. A fee for service industry paid for either by the ‘service user’ or the public health service. In other words, more abortions = more money. And abortion reality should never get in the way of abortion revenue. Most abortions in the UK are performed by BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service) or Marie Stopes. And most abortions being performed on Irish women are happening in the UK – at the rate of 4000 a year [i] . BPAS and Marie Stopes clearly appreciate their private Irish clientele because they even offer them a reduced rate on their websites. [ii] They know their target audience all too well. ‘Abortion Services for Irish Residents – BPAS’ is the second hit, just below the BPAS website link, when you type ‘BPAS’ in the google search bar. Type ‘Marie Stopes’ into google and you get ‘Irish, Overseas Clients abortion | Marie Stopes United Kingdom’ as the second hit just below their website. There must be a lucrative turnover because over the past two weeks BPAS have been relentlessly focusing their efforts on Facebook to the Irish and the Irish situation. [iii] [i] https://www.ifpa.ie/Hot-Topics/Abortion/Statistics [ii] https://www.bpas.ie/prices/

https://www.mariestopes.org.uk/overseas-clients-abortion/irish/costs-payment-how-book/fees-how-much-abortion-irish-women [iii] https://www.facebook.com/Bpas-British-Pregnancy-Advisory-Service-267008550087332/

In 1970 the ‘California Medicine’ Journal published a strategy article in support of abortion entitled "A New Ethic for Medicine and Society" [i] . An excerpt is included below. "Since the old ethic has not yet been fully displaced it has been necessary to separate the idea of abortion from the idea of killing, which continues to be socially abhorrent. The result has been a curious avoidance of the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception and is continuous whether intra- or extra-uterine until death. The very considerable semantic gymnastics which are required to rationalize abortion as anything but the taking of a human life would be ludicrous if they were not often put forth under socially impeccable auspices. It is suggested that this schizophrenic sort of subterfuge is necessary because while a new ethic is being accepted the old one has not yet been rejected."

According to the author who knows when human life begins? "Everybody." What does it take to overcome this intuitive knowledge? "Considerable semantic gymnastics" that are "often put forth under socially impeccable auspices." What is the strategy? A "schizophrenic sort of subterfuge."



As Andrew T Walker has previously noted:

Cultural debates come packaged with new words and concepts. By creating “constructs” that give names to subjective theories, progressives attempt to crystallize their social theories and give them the appearance of ironclad certainty. Those who control the language control the terms of the debate. Words create and confirm ideas, and if new words can give meaning to new concepts, over time, these concepts become unquestionable as we grow accustomed to their usage.

A good example of the attempts made by BPAS to ‘control the terms of the debate’ was their recent recruitment drive for a very selective role – public affairs manager:

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service - the UK's leading charitable provider of abortion services - is looking for a Public Affairs & Advocacy Manager to help shape the work of its External Affairs Department. The department is responsible for BPAS’ s press and public policy work, including campaigns such as We Trust Women to decriminalise abortion across the UK, and Back Off, calling on the Government to move anti-abortion extremists away from clinic doors and protect women's access to services. We work to inform public discussion on a range of issues - from the changing age of motherhood to why emergency contraception belongs on our pharmacy shelves - and we push for women's access to evidence-based information, not scare-mongering on all matters relating to reproductive and sexual health.

Where do we even start. The position ostensibly involves working to ‘inform public discussion’ but then tightly stipulates the nature and terms of that discussion - ‘from the changing age of motherhood to why emergency contraception belongs on our pharmacy shelves - and we push for women's access to evidence-based information…’. The discussion this role is meant to promote is not the to and fro discussion concerning the morality of abortion but how best to get ‘the Government to move anti-abortion extremists away from clinic doors and protect women’s access.’’ Well we ask, if you support abortion, why does seeing it make you so angry? Again, these are medically accurate photographs of what someone has done to a baby. Their authenticity has been well attested. How can doing this thing to a baby be okay if seeing it is so disturbing, that it is immoral for us to show it to people? If showing this is way too awful, then why would we make it lawful? But even to ask these sort of questions is tantamount to ‘scare-mongering’ and ‘anti-abortion extremism’. This role will hardly engender open and free discussion, rather it intends to judiciously restrict and censor it. To have an open and honest discussion concerning abortion would signal the death knell for the abortion industry and those who stand to gain from its immense profits. And yet, we’re the extremists!

[i] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1501625/?page=3 The websites of BPAS and Marie Stopes advertise abortion by euphemistically referring to the practice as ‘abortion treatment’ and ‘abortion care’ respectively. George Orwell’s insight regarding the weaponizing of words and concepts in addition to those of Andrew Walker’s above are telling, “Language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” We intend on cutting through their rhetoric and trickery by exposing the gruesome underbelly of their ‘abortion service’ by standing inside or outside the airport in Dublin and Cork. Their ‘service users’ have a right to know what ‘abortion treatment’ and ‘abortion care’ looks like. Many of the public may not like us for showing them but then again as Gregg Cunningham reminds us, “Social reformers who were liked were rarely effective, and those who were effective were rarely liked”. We like them now but when William Wilberforce and his associates were trying to expose the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade using graphic images of its predations they were opposed at almost every turn. Both from within and from without. In fact, Wilberforce was frequently labelled as an extremist for his views concerning the humanity of the African and the inhumanity of the slave trade. His response:

“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”

And Martin Luther King, Jnr penned his now famous letter from Birmingham jail precisely because he was opposed for his strategy on non-violent direct action, which ultimately succeeded in ending racial segregation, by other well-meaning but underinformed, persecution fearing, anti-segregation activists. His response:

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

We need to start caring less about how people perceive us and more about how they perceive abortion. They can dislike us even at the same time as they begin to despise abortion. They can denounce us even as we are exposing the deception and developing their understanding of this atrocity. But to do so requires volunteers willing to stand in the gap and advocate for the unborn. It means being willing to set aside time and annual leave to attend and train for this project. It means getting others involved and volunteering. It also means obtaining enough funding to make it all possible. We will continue to exercise our Irish constitutional and European Convention expressive rights to display scientifically accurate images in the public square to educate the public and dialogue when people are willing. But obtaining the funding for this project - revealing the humanity of the unborn and the inhumanity of abortion to the public and those being duped by the abortion industry before it’s too late - is critical to achieving it. On average 15 women are travelling to the UK via our International Airports to undergo ‘abortion treatment’ or ‘abortion care’ at BPAS or Marie Stopes every working day Monday to Friday. Standing at the airport in the mornings with these images of first trimester prenatal and abortion images entering and leaving these facilities, that expand their cashiers by evacuating wombs, is certain to expose the deception and provide recourse to abortion vulnerable women who no longer want to go through with it. The more days we can organize volunteers to stand there, the more women will see these images and the fewer will undergo abortion. We will liaise with local crisis pregnancy centres and direct women who approach us to them for further counselling and support. But many no doubt will simply do a U-turn at the airport or never arrive for their abortion appointment having decided on life-affirming options for their babies. In addition to this, standing at the airport with these signs will ratchet up the tension and evoke media attention the same way it did when we travelled around following the Dutch-Based Abortion Pill Bus showing these women what ROSA wanted to do to their babies. We then intend to bring these and other signs with us into the city centre in the afternoons, availing of the light into the evenings, and engaging and dialoguing with the public. The intended date for this Consumer Protection Initiative is between Saturday, July 29 – Sunday, August 13. This sort of strategy will ultimately need dedicated volunteers to be supported financially to work at this full time. In the interim, we need to purchase the large 15x5 foot prints for the airport signage and necessary materials to fabricate the frames. We may also need to rent rooms for volunteers during the weeks the displays take place if we cannot find enough people in the vicinity willing to host the volunteers in addition to flights and transport related costs. No doubt the abortion lobby and their journalist pawns will want to paint this event as pro-lifers filming women going abroad for abortions; something we don't do. As though we would even know which 15 passengers among the thousands were travelling to the UK for abortion. But here, as everywhere else CBR operates, they rarely let the facts get in the way of their story. Our sister affiliate in the UK (Abort67) often have these allegations levelled against them without any evidence. The allegation is that we are deliberately filming women using abortion services. This is nonsense. Where is the evidence of us broadcasting women entering or leaving abortion clinics? Further, ICBR uses body cameras to protect our volunteers from false allegations of the sort the abortion industry and its allies maliciously level at us. But these cameras don’t come cheap and if we would like for every volunteer to wear one, we will need to purchase some more.



As David Roger Casement, Irish Human Rights Activist declared at the time of the Congolese Genocide that largely went unchallenged except by a few, “… we all on earth have a commission and a right to defend the weak against the strong and to protest against brutality in any shape or form” and Sophie Scholl challenged those at the time of the Nazi holocaust, "How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause?". We need people to hold these banners and advocate for the unborn. All our volunteers undergo pro-life advocacy training and we will have experienced pro-life activists with them. Please consider participating and/or helping to fund this initiative. AIRPORT EDUCATION PROJECT



CONSUMER PROTECTION INITIATIVE



AN APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS AND FUNDING DATE: SAT JULY 29TH - SUN AUG 13TH

LOCATION: DUBLIN/CORK AIRPORT AND CITY CENTRE



VOLUNTEERS: 7 - 8 participants per display OTHERS:

Experience in photography/videography

Video editing

Graphic design If you would like to participate in this education project please get in touch, info@icbr.ie



For donations you can use the tab below or cheque to 'Irish Centre for Bio-ethical Reform'



For bank transfer:

Account Number: 43891043

IBAN: IE09AIBK93537943891043

BIC: AIBKIE2D DONATE TOWARDS AIRPORT PROJECT "... we all on earth have a commission and a right to defend the weak against the strong and to protest against brutality in any shape or form." - Roger David Casement (1864-1916)





Sincerely,



Jean-Simonis

ICBR Director

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