Bumper Sticker

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Not sure this is the right place for this but as I was leaving Mass Sunday I saw this bumper sticker . . . “Abortion doesn’t make you ‘un-pregnant’ , it makes you the mother of a dead baby”.

Do you think messages such as this have a positive or negative effect.
 
I’m not a fan. I think messages like this (though most slogans that can fit on a bumper sticker would qualify) make someone who disagrees angry and defensive rather than stop and prayerfully consider the implications behind the slogan.

I also think it could do harm to a woman who has had an abortion and either harden her heart or shame her, rather than encourage her to seek out God’s forgiveness. But I can’t think of a short enough slogan that would do that, either.
 
I don’t think I’d choose to put that one on my car.

I go back and forth on the issue myself. I can totally understand the desire and the need to present the facts of what abortion is in a way that does not leave open the possibility for a person to rationalize it away.

On the other hand, I can see how such a slogan would only serve to “preach to the choir” while making the opposition dig in their heels or (even worse) for a woman who has had an abortion to be shamed and hardened rather than encouraged to seek forgiveness (as silicasandra put it).

Personally, I’m not 100% sold on the whole concept of evangelization via bumper sticker. They’re effective insofar as they impart a memorable one-liner to a person who probably wouldn’t be inclined to pick up a book on the subject (or even give the subject a second thought). I guess I just think it’s a sad commentary on our society that public discourse has been reduced to tweet-sized verbal barbs.
 
bcarson said:
Not sure this is the right place for this but as I was leaving Mass Sunday I saw this bumper sticker . . . “Abortion doesn’t make you ‘un-pregnant’ , it makes you the mother of a dead baby”.

Do you think messages such as this have a positive or negative effect.
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I’m not a fan of slogans like that, since it seems too confrontational. A lot of the pro-abortion types I’ve met can get pretty in-your-face with pro-life types, and I think this kind of rhetoric, ie. that slogan, is just stooping to their level. If I had a car, I would not want it on my bumper.
 
Christ told us that the Greatest Commandment is LOVE.

In my view, such a bumber sticker does not convey a spirit of love and therefore is offensive.

I cannot imagine Christ saying it and we are called to be Christ like.
 
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I’m not a fan of slogans like that, since it seems too confrontational. A lot of the pro-abortion types I’ve met can get pretty in-your-face with pro-life types, and I think this kind of rhetoric, ie. that slogan, is just stooping to their level. If I had a car, I would not want it on my bumper.
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Agreed.

The slogan seems to me to be accusatory.
 
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