Just when you thought you had seen it all - pennies for aborted babies...

[The Straight Story]

‘Memorial to the Missing’ gathers pennies to remember abortion’s toll on innocent life
Jan 19, 2007
By Gregory Tomlin
Baptist Press

EDITORS’ NOTE: Sunday, Jan. 21, is Sanctity of Life Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention.


JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Alone, the penny is the least of U.S. currency. Few things, if any, can be bought with it. The U.S. government has proposed no longer producing it, feeling it insignificant and often unused.

But Baptists all over the state of Mississippi now pay attention to pennies even on the sidewalk or in a parking lot, knowing that each one has value.

These Mississippi Baptists don’t pocket the pennies for themselves. They have been bagging the pennies and shipping them in bulk to the Baptist Building in Jackson. Or they may even tape a few pennies to a piece of paper and send them through the mail. Each penny will go to a special place because it represents something -– rather, someone -– special.

However they are shipped, the pennies will find their home among millions of others at a special “Memorial to the Missing,” the Baptist convention’s tribute to the nearly 50 million children aborted in the United States since the Supreme Court legalized abortion in the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973.

To date, Baptists in the state have contributed more than 26 million pennies to the project toward the goal of 50 million. Dropping the pennies in the 12-by-16-foot covered, bullet-proof glass enclosure that makes up the memorial is their way of showing the world that no life is insignificant.

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=24797




Sanctity of Life Sunday????

How about all the lives forgotten about once they are born? Or the war? I could go on and on.

We need something like this for those now living on this planet...

[silverlib]

1. 50 million more

in an over populated world where people are the greatest threat to the environment. But most important, 50 million more where mothers were not allowed to choose, for whatever reason.

[pitohui]

2. that's what i thought too

but i don't believe 50 million people have ever lived in mississippi in all time and eternity and the history of the human race

it is sooo hard to get an abortion there, i seriously doubt it's 50,000

we're being lied to

BIG TIME

[NMMNG]

3. Oh please

Only the fetus is sacred to them. Once it's expelled from the uterus it's no longer of any concern. Psychologically/physically abuse him for being gay, toss her on the streets to starve or freeze for the crime of being poor, send him off to die in a senseless war, whatever. Born humans are of no consequence.

[SanCristobal]

4. At least they aren't blowing something up.

This is a relatively inoffensive protest, and it's not like they are spending the money on pro-life lobbying. I kind of like it, it has that whole Scrooge McDuck thing going for it.

[flashlighter]

7. Now, if they spent all the pennies on diapers and

formula for poor women, I'd support it. Unfortunately, they will only be using the pennies for propaganda. Sigh.

[solinvictus]

5. Serious question...

..how can so many who actively oppose the death penalty on the grounds of opposing killing support abortion as a practice? It seems as inconsistent as Christian pro-lifers who support executions.

[The Straight Story]

6. There have been a few threads on that here (nt)