I don’t think you’re going to like what I think, OP, because I think you’re a fine person to talk about being disgusted.
In what way is it “worship” to take a big bite out of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, believing the lie that “your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad”. (Gen. 3:5) You seem to think you can change right and wrong by argument! Where did you get that idea? How is that a worshipful attitude?
A fetus is not potentially alive, but truly alive. I took biology, you took biology, let’s not mince words or rationalize that you have a license to kill anyone that you believe would have died a natural death, anyway. If you really do worship the same God I do, then presumably you know that you’re not God.
You say, “I would not want to take care of a dog that I don’t want, let alone a child that requires many times more responsibility.” Oy, vey. Why are there more people who would scream if you put a perfectly healthy dog to sleep because you couldn’t take care of it that have no problem with aborting a perfectly healthy child because they don’t want to take care of her? Who equates her own child with a dog, as if even a dog was a commodity that deserves to live in whatever way is convenient for you? Do you know how much painkiller is administered to an aborted fetus? None!! And gosh, if the only person who could keep you alive (your mother, just incidentally) had you killed in her presence because it was too much bother to keep you alive, would you take a lot of consolation in knowing that it was an “extremely difficult decision” for her? Not half so difficult as it’s going to be for you, kiddo! As for the starvation ploy, should we go euthanize all the starving or homeless people in the world, so they don’t have to suffer? Really?
Do you know why people are showing such graphic pictures? Because they’re tired of people rationalizing abortion away as something other than what it is. It is a risky strategy these days, though, because of course it is the anti-abortion picketer who is going to be blamed for the grisly nature of what is going on, not the people who want to have that same picture lived out as it has behind closed doors and out of their sight 50 million times since 1973.
The reason those pictures are upsetting is because they are exactly what “pro-choice” advocates want to deny that they are. If those were pictures of an uncooked beef steak or hearts ready for donation or even a picture of what a smoker’s cancerous lung really looked like, who would be screaming that they are unfit for children to look at? If the Pentagon were doing that to detainees at Guantanamo, would this fellow be screaming that the pictures should be hidden, lest a child see what rationalizing voters and pro-torture advocates want to deny was happening in the name of “preserving our freedoms”? I highly doubt it.
The reason that pro-choice advocates do not want children looking at pictures like that is because they are lying to themselves and lying to their children about what abortion is, and they don’t want to admit it. They are advocating for a “freedom” that is bought at the price of a death, and facing that is more than they want to do. Well, sorry. If that is the price of your “freedoms”, then be willing to let that be known. If you can’t do that, examine yourself for why that is.
At least if there is time and the parents’ wishes are known and it wouldn’t interfere with medical procedures . . . seems I’ve heard of it.
