We live in a visual age where people often don't respond to any crisis until they see videos or pictures of it. Every few years there turns up a new dire condition in a different country in Africa. We see news reports of starving citizens or mass killing of people by some tyrannical leader or government. Often these problems have been going on for years, but we don't react until we see footage of them on the national news or photos in a magazine.
Even the horrors of the holocaust have more impact when you see pictures from the extermination camps.
That is why it is totally appropriate to show either video or still photos of aborted babies, especially to someone who is considering an abortion. It brings to light what the result of an abortion is. That is why pro-choice proponents don't want them to be shown. But if they are pro-choice, wouldn't they want people to see them, along with the use of the most advanced ultrasound technology. Women would then be given all the information they need to make an informed choice. Most would agree that when you have to make a difficult choice in life, then you should have all the information possible.
June 9, 2008
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I think that at times it is appropriate to show the abortion photos - but I don't think that the argument outlined here is good reason for it... Just because it works in other situations doesn't make it right.
I'd say we just need to exercise discretion in all aspects of talking to people about abortion and how terrible it is.
Regards
Most medical procedures aren't pretty - is open heart surgery pretty? No. Does it usually have a positive effect? Yes. The same goes for abortions.
Most people are so outraged by picturs of aborted fetuses because they look like infants in the photos. To the naked eye, they look like nothing more than a natural menstrual flow. The images only look so terrible because they're magnified soooo much.
Anti-choicers use these photos as propaganda to scare people into thinking abortion is wrong.
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