You should see that priest ride the waves, it's killer!
Actually, it's mostly protestant non-denominations that have the funds for such things out by us. Interestingly Catholics get the blame for much of it.
Many Catholic groups have the money for this stuff as well. Any all the anti-abortion groups I see picketing anywhere around here are Catholic.
Serious, you haven't seen the aborted infant images out in the streets? It just about ****** off libs when they see it.
The first time I saw people standing on a street corner with pictured of aborted fetuses, I was on my way to work.
It was about a week after one of my co-workers announced that she was pregnant. Realizing that she (carrying a 12-week-old fetus) was going to have to drive by a big poster of a dismembered fetus that said "12 weeks" on it, I very nearly stopped my car to punch the guy out. It's the only time I can think of in recent memory that I've had the urge to be violent.
For some people when life begins has little to do with the abortion debate. They would find it justifiable even if it was close to term. It's sad that perhaps some in the left are too distracted by their opposition to conservative/right-wing Christians to give this issue the attention it deserves.
OTOH, it works both ways. I think you'd find that many on the pro-choice side would be open to more restrictions for late-term abortions, but they're worried that conceding any ground will end up strengthening the anti-abortion camp and be used as a stepping stone to a full abortion ban.
For me, it doesn't matter when life begins, I'd still treat it with respect. But the idea that some would take it close to term and still not even "feel" anything either way........is disgusting.
For me, I think that many of the tactics of the so-called "pro-life" campaign show no respect for the life that they claim to consider sacred.
When I take that along with what I see as a tendency to stop caring about the welfare of fetuses after they're born, along with the deep, fundamental
disrespect they show to women, I don't put much weight in the notion that the anti-abortion movement is about "respect".
IMO, more often than not, the "pro-life" movement is more about using the fetus as a political football to enforce ideas of sexual purity on people who don't want them. I'm not so sure it's really about fetal "life" at all.