You ever wonder why people are always talking about protecting wildlife while supporting the killing of human life? Well the Spanish bishops have wondered that as well and are taking the issue head on with a new advertising campaign.
Expatica.com reports:
Spain’s Catholic Church Monday announced a new anti-abortion campaign that condemns what it said is the better protection offered to threatened species of animals than to the unborn.
The campaign coincides with plans by the Socialist government to liberalise Spain’s abortion law, which dates to 1985.
“If many animal species are highly protected, including legally, why do we offer less protection to the lives of humans who are to be born?” said the spokesman for Spain’s Episcopal Conference (CEE), Juan Antonio Martinez Camino.
He spoke at a news conference to present the anti-abortion campaign, which will include a “Day of Life” throughout the country on 25 March.
The campaign is illustrated by a poster that shows a baby beside an Iberian lynx cub, a protected species in Spain, on which are the words “Protect the lynx.” Above the baby is the caption “And me?” The top of the poster shows pictures of foetuses at various stages of development.
The poster is to be put up at 1,300 sites across the country.
I can’t help but wish that bishops in many other countries would have the guts to put something like this out.
But maybe we’re seeing the dawn of a new era because I actually was impressed by the Church’s efforts to highlight the Freedom of Choice Act which appears to have worked as Obama promised to make it a priority but hasn’t made any moves toward it since taking office.
But that kind of thing seems to be preaching to the converted. This poster seems to be seeking to change the hearts and minds of everyone. Wouldn’t you love to see posters like this put up in New York City or San Francisco?
March 17, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Expect graffiti, destruction and defacing of all 1300 billboarads.
March 17, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Sad but true.
March 17, 2009 at 8:03 pm
But that would only prove that those who are against life are, demonstrably, destroyers.
March 17, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Somewhat reminds me of the national outrage toward Michael Vick a while back here in this country.
And I’m not making light of what he did.
March 17, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Too many bishops in the U.S. are gutless cowards who would rather hide behind the USCCB Faithless Citizenship document than stand up for the most defenseless among us.
You read that right, gutless cowards.
March 17, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Beyond billboard vandalism, I suspect the Spanish left will take the usual rhetoric road (or is it a superhighway by now?):
Step 1. Conjure up images of Theocracy and Inquisition and submit the billboard campaign as irrefutable evidence of a Papist coup in the wings. Bring up Francisco Franco at least three times in every sentence.
Step 2. Counter-attack the Church with the charge of genocide for refusing to distribute condoms in Africa. ‘Cause, you know, condoms are the only known antidote for AIDS.
Step 3. Smile smugly as the media and the ‘Destape’ generation intellectuals give you the moral high ground while blasting the hypocrisy of the Church. Argue that women’s “reproductive freedom” is paramount, thus begging the very question the billboards were supposed to provoke.
Step 4. Proceed with the systematic dismanteling of one of Western Civilization’s oldest and most influential cultural traditions. Make plans to “rinse and repeat” the procedure in Latin America.
March 17, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Even if people do deface and deride them, what a wonderful campaign – it will reach someone!
~Nzie
March 18, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Our Lady of Lourdes in Milltown has had pro-life billboards constantly for at least as long as I’ve worked and lived in Central Jersey. It gets defaced every once in a while, but not as often as one would imagine. They just replace it.
Huzzah to the Spanish Bishops, anyway. We have a great advantage that can never be overcome – the grace of God.
March 31, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Umm… yeah, so y’all are ignoring three kinda important things:
1) The animals that are protected are endangered – meaning, there aren’t that many of them, and they could potentially go extinct.
2) These animals are endangered largely due to the proliferation of humans (and their effects on the planet).
3) Humans are not an endangered species. (Although, if humans keep producing more and more humans, we will choke the planet and eventually become endangered)
–There is absolutely no rational basis for comparison between the need to protect a declining animal population and a burgeoning human population.
Get with the program, people!