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Abortion Pictures
Abortion is an act of violence against an innocent human being.
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There is simply no way to accurately comprehend the barbarity of abortion without being exposed to the photographic evidence which so clearly demonstrates that abortion is a brutal act of violence.
Some people argue that abortion is an act of mercy, an expression of
love to a child who would otherwise be forced to endure a life of
unwantedness. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the US. Their founder, Margaret Sanger,
once said, "the most merciful thing that a large family does to one of
its infant members is to kill it." The question before us, then, is
this. Is abortion an act of mercy or an act of violence? While it may
be easy to casually maintain support for abortion in the abstract, it
becomes much harder when the evidence is put before us.
Though
pictures of aborted embryos and fetuses are shocking, they are no more
shocking than the act of abortion itself. Until you see what abortion
does, you will never accurately understand what abortion is. There are
some things for which words alone fail to accurately communicate their
brutality. Referring to the horrific lynching of
14-year-old Emmett Till and the subsequent photos published in a 1955
issue of Jet magazine, Reverend Al Sharpton remarks:
People can sort of deal with things they don't have to look at, but it's hard to view a corpse and turn your head... And that's why generations unborn owe [Emmett's mom] a lot, because she was able to graphically bring home what a thousand speeches couldn't bring home... The easiest thing would have been to say, "No, close the casket, I can't bear it." But she somehow found the strength to say, "I'll bear my pain, to save some other mother from having to go through this." And because she put the picture of this young man's body on the conscience of America, she might have saved thousands of young black men and young black women's lives.1
POST-ABORTION PHOTOGRAPHS (click images to enlarge)
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The decision to unseal Emmett's coffin was not an easy or pleasant
one. Neither was holding an open-casket funeral and allowing the
pictures of her mutilated son to be shown to an entire nation and
world. Those photographs, however, helped create an entire generation of young activists who could no longer remain apathetic towards America's racial problem.
The
photographs on this page are equally unpleasant, but as Reverend
Sharpton points out, "People can sort of deal with things they don't
have to look at." Day after day, thousands of tiny human beings are
quietly destroyed behind sterile clinic doors. Abortion pictures
graphically bring home what a thousand speeches can't. Naomi Wolf, one
of the most celebrated feminists of the modern era and an ardent abortion
supporter, questions anyone who is willing to support abortion without
also having the stomach to face its violent reality. She says it this
way:
How can we charge that it is vile and repulsive for pro-lifers to brandish vile and repulsive images if the images are real? To insist that the truth is in poor taste is the very height of hypocrisy. Besides, if these images are often the facts of the matter, and if we then claim that it is offensive for pro-choice women to be confronted by them, then we are making the judgment that women are too inherently weak to face a truth about which they have to make a grave decision. This view of women is unworthy of feminism.2
No abortion education is complete without an examination of the photographic evidence which so conclusively demonstrates that abortion is an act of violence that kills a living human being. These pictures are graphic, but they need to be seen.
- Al Sharpton, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till. Dir. Keith A. Beauchamp. ThinkFilm. 2005. Film.
- Naomi Wolf, “Our Bodies, Our Souls,” The New Republic, October 16, 1995, 32.
Footnotes
POSSIBLE OBJECTION: Abortion is a horrible thing and I would never have one, but that doesn't give me the right to tell other people what they can or cannot do.
TO LEARN OUR RESPONSE, CONTINUE TO THE NEXT PAGE: The Role of Law
RELATED ENTRIES:
- The Importance of Graphic Images: Pictures help communicate what words, alone, often cannot.
- Photographs and Cultural Change: Photography has played a crucial role in the history of social reform.
- Where Do Abortion Pictures Come From?: All Abort73 abortion photos come from working abortion clinics.
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15 Comments on Abortion Pictures
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Mar 28, 2011 / 10:36 CST)
I hope and pray that we are able to slam this door shut. It appears that the statistics are beginning to swing in that direction a bit. Perhaps, this is something that is new people would like to know from world news for these days.
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.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Mar 05, 2011 / 20:05 CST)
I am outraged that anti abortion activists feel that it is ok to show graphic pictures via curbside. I myself am against abortion however, as a mother it is up to me to decide what is appropriate for my child~ example:Movies have parental guidance warnings on them(IT IS UP TO ME) as a parent to filter what I feel maybe harmful yet I can no longer drive down a public street without fear that my child may be exposed to horrific pictures of dead babies ~thank you for practicing your rights while taking mine away!!!
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Feb 18, 2011 / 10:44 CST)
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