The purpose of the Genocide Awareness Project is to show people the brutal reality of abortion.
While definitions of genocide are likely to have some degree of variation depending on where one looks, the Center for Bioethical Reform's definition comes from Webster's New World Encyclopedia which states that genocide is “The deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, racial, religious, political, cultural, ethnic, or other group defined by the exterminators as undesirable.”(Prentice Hall, 1992)
In this case, the national group is American unborn and unwanted children that are being targeted for destruction. They are targeted by a culture that accepts their death as a permanent solution for unwanted, unborn children. As the National Organization for Women claims in one of their bumper stickers, “Every Child a Wanted Child.”
Despite what some believe given the nature of their protests, the freedom of speech which we enjoy in this country still extends to messages which many may find offensive. It is not a crime to offend someone. Graphic images have been used throughout history to help create large social change.
Consider the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. Both benefited from the use of images (some disturbing) to shake the society from its apathy and spark dialogue regarding an issue. The anti-abortion movement is using a similar tactic by pairing the use of images with other methods in order to convince our society that abortion is a terrible moral plight which continues to kill our generation in massive numbers.
The dignity of the human person must extend to their very moment of creation. In the inevitable conflict of rights that occurs in human existence, the right to physical life must be respected above all others, for it is that right which lays the foundation to all other rights. No rights can exist for the human being without the right to life.
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