Thursday, May 26, 2011

"Protest the Protesters"

The Border media-authorities have once again done as they do best, not to report the news, but to sensationalise it.

For years now there has existed a local group, "Helpers of God's Precious Infants" who make a weekly event of attending the Albury abortion clinic - or "Fertility Control Clinic" as they like to be called - on Thursdays following mass. For the most part, these people belong to the ageing population, not many young people in sight, until today.

In two separate reports from The Border Mail and WIN News, the Helpers have used "intimidation techniques... filming from a car people entering the clinic" amongst other absolute halve-truths.

I have attended this very peaceful protest on a number of occasions over the last three-years, not once have I encountered any bullying from those amongst us pro-lifers. Some will stand there with diagrams of stages of life, others with leaflets with information, while the vast majority will stand there together praying the Rosary.

When a potential client comes by, they are offered a leaflet - not made to have it - nor does anyone hurl abuse or say anything other than the recitation of the Rosary.

Recently, a group of teens started a Facebook page to "Protest the Protesters", who made an appearance at the weekly vigil. Sadly, teens do not have the education or the life-experience to make an informed stance on abortion, particularly if their of the "pro-choice" encampment.

It has now come to the medias attention that a camera inside a parked vehicle has been used to film people entering the clinic, claiming a mass violation of privacy. This is true, there has been a camera set-up, but to the best of my knowledge, this was to combat the clinic who started the dirty game of giving false accusation to the peaceful-protestors outside, obviously detrimental to their "business" which is a very serious one indeed... a business of killing.

After the peaceful protest, one of the Doctors, assuming that one who is against life can be called a Doctor, went out to thank the protestors. This same Doctor owns another "kill clinic" in Melbourne in which a security guard assaulted a pro-life protestor. Perhaps this Doctor is paying a bunch of ill-informed teens with a somewhat skewed-life-view, as teens often have, to combat the peaceful-protests that have existed for quite some time now. Surely if you are in the business of killing, then you wouldn't be against being in the business of thuggery... I don't know of many other clinics with security-guards, other than similar "clinics".

The least the media can do is report the entire story, not the sections they see fit. "Newstainment" is a more fitting term for the media - not just locally, internationally as well.

4 comments:

  1. Seems to me that the 'life experience' of these teens seems not to be all that inferior to yours 24 year old David. The camera is to intimidate. It points directly at the clinic door. If 'business' was so important to the doctor in question, she would simply stay in her home town and perform said abortions, not spend half her days in airports to provide the service. I appreciate that the point of a blog is to provide a particluar point of view, but you seem to me to be just as bad as the mass media which you hate so much.

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  2. The fact that you say that the teenagers are being payed to do is a ridiculous notion. These people are at the stage where they are old enough to make their own choices.
    I'm sure you, with your time-shattering 24 years of experience might believe you have a stronger grasp of the situation because of your age, but this is not necessarily so.
    Though if I don't know these teenagers personally, I have heard of their efforts. And just because you don't necessarily agree with their views, it does not imply their views are 'skewed' by any chance.
    And as I've read your blog, I guess I have both sides of this story but the point still stands, these teenagers are standing up for what they truly believe in. And not to mention the support they've received from others. I may not particularly 'enjoy' the idea of abortion, but I can understand what they are standing for: the privacy of the women.
    I don't think you can really complain about 'the entire story' while the view you provide is not entirely complete either.

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  3. I think blogger is trying show what the news report dont show, i dont think hes aim is to show whole story as if you want the other side it is in the mainstream media. I notice the FaceBook page for the group that was started up is pulled? Why? There were some bad people in there from both sides but not many. Most of us were civil talk and education on abortion.

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