These are sample panels used in our recent Genocide Awareness Outreach October 1-5th in the Rochester area.

The recent Genocide Awareness Outreach was an unqualified success. Using a display setup loaned to Rescue Rochester by Lifelink of Cleveland, Ohio the message of life and the gospel was brought to four strategic gates in the greater Rochester area. On October 1^st we were at Planned Parenthood on Ridge Road witnessing to nearly 3000 cars per hour. The University of Rochesters main gate was a place where our display led to some interesting conversations, leafleting and communications with Campus Security and the Rochester Police Dept. October 4th we were at the Liberty Pole in downtown Rochester a major transportation transfer area, leafleting and witnessing. Finally on Friday, October 5^th we set up in the Twelve Corners area of Brighton and had an excellent opportunity to witness to Brighton High School students. It was here that our free speech rights were the most challenged.

On their web site, Genocide Awareness Project posts this definition of genocide. Webster's New World Encyclopedia, Prentice Hall General Reference, 1992, defines "genocide" as "The deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, racial, religious, political, cultural, ethnic, or other group defined by the exterminators as undesirable." That definition readily applies to abortion. The "national group" is American "unwanted" unborn children and they are now being destroyed at the rate of nearly 1 out of every 4 conceived. They are being terminated in an elaborate network of killing centers. The current total far exceeds 50 million children since 1973. Some say to show these graphic pictures is too extreme and divisive. Yet what really is extreme? The exposure of the evil or the evil itself!

The extreme act of butchering children in constitutionally protected abortion mills has gone on  for over 30 years, tolerated by the American citizenry and the American church. This barbaric practice has become acceptable and a tangential issue to most Americans. The killing of babies is now just a debate point for pandering politicians. There was little outcry to the displays, which shows me that our culture has become comfortable with bloodguilt-the shedding of innocent blood. Our week on the streets of Rochester accomplished the mission of warning our city that genocide's horror resides in our local abortion mills and abortion providing hospitals.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

Rev. Mike Warren

Director Rescue Rochester