Many people support pro-life transit ads

I was disappointed that The Peterborough Examiner chose to run an article about the pro-life ads currently running on Peterborough buses without including comments from any supporters of the ads. There is a large, passionate, and educated pro-life community in Peterborough.

It would not have been difficult for your reporter to get comments from members of this community.

One pro-choice supporter quoted in your article claimed that CCBR, the pro-life group behind the ads, uses “horror” imagery in its pro-life activism. In reality, all of the photos used by CCBR are actual images of unborn babies, or are photos depicting the actual results of abortions. If Dyson finds these images “horrific” (as indeed they are) perhaps she should be asking WHY she finds them horrific.

The answer is simple: these images show, using irrefutable photographic evidence, that the unborn child is not a “blob of tissue,” and that every abortion ends the life of a living human being. This should not come as a surprise. Science long ago proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that the fetus is a genetically unique, living human being from the moment of conception. The heart of the unborn child begins beating as early as 21 days after conception – before many women even know they are pregnant. Meanwhile, the ultrasound has given us a window in the womb, erasing any lingering doubts about the humanity of the unborn children.

Ironically, one of the pro-choice supporters quoted in your story compared the pro-life movement to “white supremacists.” In reality, the pro-life movement is the civil rights movement of our time: standing up for the weak and defenseless who cannot stand up for themselves, in the face of dehumanizing propaganda and public opposition.

Women deserve to know the facts about abortion, rather than unscientific propaganda. I, for one, applaud CCBR for running these ads, and pray that they may prevent more women from experiencing the heartbreak and regret of abortion, and may help save the lives of some of our unborn brothers and sister. And I pray that any woman in our community who has had an abortion may find forgiveness, healing, and freedom in the truth.

John Jalsevac Millbrook