Turning to a Culture of Life

Yesterday I was in Queens, with the table outside. Since that's a work where we wait a lot, we also have time to think.

A lot of people come usually to the table to ask for information; some of them just watch the TV videos, and when there are some people together they talk between themselves. The table work in the sidewalk is a good way to change the culture to a positive vibe and also to spread information. A lot of girls that come to our offices have also known about us by these "brochures - being in the street" thing.

Changing the culture is really a very important thing to end abortion. We need that people defend and fight for life out there. Specially in countries like Spain we have a culture which in 2 seconds tag anyone who is against abortion as a close-minded catholic-right wing, etc. That makes impossible to communicate as they're not listening to you anymore when they think this.

This happens because of many things. The mass media are the most responsible of this tragedy in the communication, because they're looking for the audience, and in TV programs and information the contents are made by the seeking of the self interests; this makes people change (because the media influences people), by some self commercial interests instead of what is really important . But this tragedy is continously feeding itself by the people. If the people think something is anticultural or it's seen from a bad view already manipulated by the media, they will criticize it, and this makes mass media manipulate and select the news that will interest to people all the time.

We need to change the idea people have of "what the world thinks about" (abortion in this case) the things that are not being right done these days. We need to, and we are doing it.

(Picture: People watching the TV with an abortion video at Queens)