In January of 1995 Right to Life of Michigan Educational Fund began airing television advertisements in response to abortion clinic violence. The news media was flooded with stories about violence perpetrated on abortion clinic staff and doctors. In the process of reporting the information the entire non-violent prolife movement was indicted. Right to Life of Michigan's position against violence is clear. These two commercials bypassed the news media in an attempt to convey that position to the public accurately.

Those who kill or perform violent acts, as the news media failed to point out, are not prolife. Countering violence with more violence is contrary to prolife principles. The following are the scripts of those two commercials.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

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Text: "Any force necessary to stop the killing of unborn children is justified"  -  Paul Hill, convicted murderer. Voiceover: Recently, several people have been quoted justifying the murders of various abortion clinic workers. Text: "It was not murder. It was more like anti-murder."  -  Shelly Shannon, Oregon "John Salvi, we care about you. We love you. (The killings) were a righteous deed."  -  Rev. Donald Spitz Voiceover: There's one quote, however, these people seem to have forgotten. Text: "Thou shalt not kill." Voiceover: There's no justification for murder.