A Local Fox affiliate in Michigan covered a new pro-life billboard. The billboard in Marinette, Michigan shows a worried pregnant teen with a though bubble saying “My mom is going to kill me!” But it also shows the though bubble of her baby in utero thinking “My mom REALLY is going to kill me.”
The FOX report shows the customary reactions. Some good. Some bad.
It is hard to judge the effectiveness of such a billboard as it only needs to be the right message for one person to be worthwhile. Watch the video and tell me what you think.
Thanks to reader Mark for the heads up.
October 7, 2010 at 7:00 am
These silly teenages voicing their opinions. We always say that children are the future, but what do they know?
October 7, 2010 at 12:56 pm
"I think it's very graphic," she says. This coming from the Grand Theft Auto generation. I imagine this billboard will scar all those poor teenagers on their way to see the latest Twilight movie. Give me a break.
October 7, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I like it, brutal, but I like it.
A big problem is an entire generation thinks abortion is a procedure.
October 7, 2010 at 4:27 pm
I think it is brilliant. As a teen who was pregnant at 17, I had no idea what I was carrying, but God's grace and my faith told me to go forward with the pregnancy. My mom did not kill me because she found out after my marriage. But I would not have had the courage to tell her before the wedding.
If this is graphic then what are holocaust pictures? Pictures tell the truth. Pictures draw the heart in to see the great injustice.
Social justice begins in the womb.
October 7, 2010 at 4:36 pm
The billboard is great!
I don't that girl really knows what graphic means. Perhaps she considers anything that depicts and image of the unborn to be offensive and therefore labels it "graphic"…
October 7, 2010 at 4:37 pm
…should have been the word "think" in between 'don't' and 'that'…
October 7, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Graphic? Give me a break! It is a cartoon image of a baby who hasn't been torn apart- a beautiful billboard
October 7, 2010 at 6:33 pm
I agree with elm who said it is brilliant.
It has created dialogue in the community through controversy. It made the local news. Once the dialogue starts externally, it has the potential to change the monologue running inside the "pro-choicer's" head. The people we pro-lifers want and need to reach specifically is the pregnant girl or woman contemplating abortion to keep her parents or family from "killing" her; any woman who may consider it as her option.
October 7, 2010 at 6:39 pm
graphic? pthbthbthbthb!!
that my friend is not graphic. but it is the right kind of depiction of the baby in the womb, still alive.
If only the billboard could display a video of a living baby's ultrasound in the mother's womb.
October 7, 2010 at 7:40 pm
I would have used a real picture of a real teen, and then possibly photoshopped an image of a child in the womb.. but thats just me…
October 7, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Wow… the future of Michigan looks grim if that's the only way they can articulate.
She has her nose pierced, an influence of pop culture and MTV… I'm sure that any show or video at any time of the day defines "graphic" much more clearly than does this billboard.
As far as the "personally pro-choice" lad goes, it always makes me chuckle when you hear those who have been successfully brainwashed by their peers, mass media, and their teachers regurgitate the propaganda they've consumed as their own ideas independent of outside pressure. They can hardly do it, and they don't even recognize the inconsistencies and failure of logic in their own speech. They have to resort to flailing their hands around (a really sad attempt at NLP) to divert attention from what they are actually saying and give the perception that they do.
October 7, 2010 at 9:21 pm
I think this is a fantastic add. How could this be construed as to graphic in the age of Robot Chicken and Sin City? I am not surprised but am annoyed by any attempts to say something perfect like this add is "too graphic". Graphic is the life of a woman after an abortion. Graphic is the self destruction that women spiral into after an abortion. Give them hope!!! Yeah for the bold people who made and paid for this add. Yeah!!!
October 7, 2010 at 10:44 pm
While the billboard is good, it misses the point. The whole pro-life movement seems to miss the point.
Contraception alone has turned sex into a recreational activity which in turn has caused rampant sexual promiscurity, the natural result is which is addiction to porn, cheating on your spouse, pregnancy outside of marriage and abortion on demand.
Conception is the root cause and until it is treated, the symptoms will continue. The pro-life movement, which today ignores contraception, will never see the results it desires until it tackles contraception use as the root cause.
Sadly, many pro-lifers are also contraception users. Catholics who should know better, should search examine their concience.
-Tim-
October 7, 2010 at 10:50 pm
All I have to say is that reality is reality, truth is truth, and this billboard is just that….the very truth. It is certainly not an "IDEA" as that boy says…he is very lied to about this…the truth is that abortion IS about a mother killing her child. Nothing more, nothing less…and if we want to do righteous things in this world, we DO NOT KILL an innocent life, let alone our own children.
October 8, 2010 at 12:44 am
This is great because parents have been saying just that: "If you ever come home pregnant I'm gonna kill you (or beat you, or kick you out)." We laugh as if we all know it is a phrase we kick around for effect except even though it is unlikely that a parent would actually kill their teen many, very many, have been beaten or kick out of the family home for being pregnant. Young people that come from families where that is likely to happen are statistically the very kind of youth that get themselves pregnant.
This speaks to something I have been saying for years. Until we stop this culture of parents telling their children how violently they will react if the child comes home preggers we will always have girls resorting to abortion out of fear of their parents.
When any unmarried young person that our family knew turned up pregnant I made a point to speak aloud to my daughter and sons about the situation. I spoke of her fear, of mistakes that could become worse, and about her bravery for going through until term. This is a never ending conversation.
@ Anonymous 2:57 … I agree, the future of Michigan would be grim if these kids were an example of the average kid. Is it ever possible for an intelligent young person to be interviewed? Or, perhaps they are too intelligent to let their brilliance drop to the cutting room floor…
October 8, 2010 at 2:10 am
What Tim said!!!
October 8, 2010 at 2:12 am
My youth group made this billboard!
There's actually one in Menominee, Michigan and Marinette, Wisconsin.
I really love reading all of the positive messages so many people are getting from this!
October 8, 2010 at 4:44 am
I am one of the youth from the youth group that created this billboard, also the artist of the picture on it. At first I was nervous that this billboard was getting alot of attention because I'm still pretty insecure about my art and wasn't welcome to the idea of hundreds staring at it. Now I'm excited and proud of our youth groups billboard, because it is causing people to talk about an important topic that is too often ignored or toned down.
As a response to an above comment that it should have been a real teen photoshopped; we thought it best that it was a drawing, so a real girl would not be put on the spot. Imagine, with how much of an issue this has become, what kind of spot she'd be put in?
Reading some of these comments affirms my belief that this billboard was something this city (cities..) needed. It gets people talking. It turns heads, and it makes people think.
October 8, 2010 at 2:01 pm
To the artist of this billboard – great job!
You just got thousands of people thinking about abortion. And it is not gruesome. It is the truth.
October 8, 2010 at 3:06 pm
What a great youth group! Ya'll are our hope 🙂