If you think about it there is almost no chance whatsoever that a child will ever see these pictures.
If you actually believe this, then I am afraid you are very out of touch with the way in which some groups (especially the ones in my area) are actually displaying these pictures. I don’t see that one can reasonably argue that “there is almost no chance whatsoever that a child will ever see these pictures” when these trucks are driving down city streets during times that parents are picking their children up from daycare or school. When planes are towing these banners over public beaches. When trucks are parking in apartment complexes and neighborhoods, outside churches on Sunday morning (without the permission of the church), etc.
Case in point. We have a very large regional mall here, just off the interstate. It houses a number of children’s clothing and toy stores as well as venues that are very popular places to have children’s birthday parties. Across the street from the main entrance to this mall is a strip center that contains the only Toys R Us and Babies R Us stores in the area. The big Chuck E Cheese is nearby as are several fast food places with large indoor playspaces, and lots of family-friendly restaurants. This is an extremely popular area with families who have children in the age range I am discussing, especially on the weekends. This mall entrance is just off the interstate and traffic often comes to a standstill in the short space between the interstate and the mall entrance.
Last month Operation Rescue chose to stage a protest. Did they set up anywhere near an abortion clinic? No, instead they chose to stand with their huge posters with large pictures of mutilated dead babies
beside the driveway to the toy store on a Saturday afternoon. Along the stretch of roadway where traffic that is going into the mall and surrounding area to birthday parties, to family dinners, to buying toys, etc comes to a standstill for several minutes at a time and there is nowhere to turn off if you see these posters ahead. With the pictures right at the window level of all those minivans.
There is not an abortion clinic anywhere near where the protesters were set up.
So far through some fairly complex levels of vigilance, I have been able to keep these images from my daughter. We don’t go near the mall on the weekends. I make sure to place myself between her and the car when we come out of any store (I have found these images plastered to my windshield in the grocery store lot, even though the booster seat is clearly visible and the store is nowhere near an abortion clinic). I make sure that I enter any public restroom (including those in grocery stores, McDonalds, etc–places that families frequent for purposes other than having abortions) first in order to do a visual sweep of the area to be sure no “surprises” have been left. Etc.
Whatever.
That most ceratinly was not my intention.