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Abortion Pictures
Abortion is an act of violence against an innocent human being.
Page Summary:
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."
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.*
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.
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.
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.
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Simplechick (Oct 21, 2009 / 10:13 CST)
I think Abortions are bad.Their evil,crul,and not loving. How i see it is that who ever gets abortions really dont care about if a baby live or dies….....Everybody nows that if we have a chance to live babys should have a chance to live to.I mean if you dont want a baby then put it up for adoption or something like that. I wouldnt recomend that either because you child should have the right to now their parents the once that gave birth to suck a beautiful being.I have a baby i wanted an abortion but i had to think about its life i changed my mind quick i saw videos and every thing thats not what i wanted i wanted to give birth to a beautiful baby. I had my baby hes 1years old and very beautiful.If you can see the look in a babys eyez when they first give birth an how they look when they grow up you will she wat i am talki9n about. Let you baby that is growin inside of you a chance to live and see life thats all i have to say.
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Jul 21, 2009 / 14:08 CST)
I am perhaps too young to be able to know what I truly feel, but when I saw those pictures my resolve increased ten-fold. I cannot articulate how painful it was to look at those pictures and know that even as I stared in horror, this was happening to some innocent child. If only these images were displayed in abortion clinics, so women could see what they were inflicting on their child, and shown to us young people so we fully understand the absolute horror and tragedy at such a violent loss of life.
How can anyone do that to their child? They are literally murdering their baby. And the sad thing is, this could have been avoided. Plus, there’s adoption; now you’ve denied your child the chance to live because of pure selfishness.
There are no good words for such a terrible crime.
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (May 19, 2009 / 09:28 CST)
Our daughter aborted her first child when she was 16, before we knew what was happening. We were horrifically shocked and grieved, and she has suffered so awfully over her choice. After viewing these photos, my grief has returned afresh and I am unable to stop weeping for the horrific way that I now realize that my first precious grandchild suffered and died, along with the millions and millions of innocent unborn children in this country over the past 36 years.
It strikes me that it may not be an issue of logic. It seems clear that the consensus is that life begins at conception. So, that’s not the problem. I wonder if the problem isn’t one of our society wanting what we want, even if that means legally sanctioned murder. Some doors once opened are very hard to close. Life has become very cheap in so many ways in our society, and abortion is one glaring example. 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. Let’s hope so. I, like Luke before me, thank you for what you’re doing and encourage you to keep on keeping on. He’s right, there are a lot of us out here who are working in the exact direction that you are!
Magsmom
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