Abortion film stuns Woodford Square

LIMERS and passersby at Woodford Square were shocked by the public airing of a film which showed aborted foetuses were so highly developed that they were clearly identifiable as babies. A crowd of about 250 people were visibly distressed by the films The Silent Scream  and  Hard Truth  shown on a 20-foot screen on Friday evening. The screening was an initiative of Pastor Maurice Johnson of the Church of the First Born Assembly, a full gospel church of Sange Grande. The Silent Scream showed a grainy ultra-sound image of an unborn baby being aborted. At first the baby rests calmly in the amniotic sack. When the abortionist’s instrument intrudes, he starts thrashing about the womb trying to avoid his fate, in vain. Hard Truth showed the bodies of aborted babies which were retrieved from dumpsters behind abortion clinics in the USA. 

The film showed dead babies which really looked so developed as to have been otherwise viable. A tiny hand grasps a rod, but the whole arm has been detached from the baby’s body. The film shows the faces of dead babies. You see an eye, ear, nose and mouth, then nothing more as the baby’s face has been torn apart. People were very upset by these scenes. One woman could only react by say over and over in shock, “Oh Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” in reaction to each new horror. At the end of the film Woodford Square was silent. People were in shock. Pastor Johnson told Sunday Newsday: “We are showing these films to expose the evil behind abortion.” He hoped people would see the videos and then make their own decision on abortion. He quoted Jeremiah 1:5 to Sunday Newsday: “Before I formed you in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest out of the womb I sanctified thee...” 

After the films were shown Johnson led those present in praying “on” the Red House for Members of Parliament to pass laws that were pleasing to God. He declared: “Behind abortion is a spirit of death. On Black Friday we decided to come here to turn on a light.” Sunday Newsday asked those present if they thought it was right to publcly show the films. One Mrs Walker said: “Yes. It was well shown. It would make an impact. The second video (Hard Truth) for me was more like a massacre. I didn’t think it was hapening in such a wide way. It’s like murderers. A holocaust.” Her friend, Mrs Peters agreed: “It was butchering.” Crystal Sirju told Sunday Newsday: “A lot of young people should pay attention to it. If only they knew what they were geting into they wouldn’t do that (ie abortion).”