In your pro-life work, do you show people photos of aborted babies?

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these images are waht made me pro-life, even in cases of rape/incest…

personally, i myself would never abort even if the doctor told me i would die if i had the child… but i wouldn’t go so far as to make a law to that effect…

anyhow…

i think these images say everything about abortion… so as gory as they are, we should use them…

just wondering how many do that?
 
No, I would never, ever use those pictures. I find them disgusting. I am reminded of my beloved little neice (5 years old) and nephew (3 years old)-if they were driving by in a car they would be terrified of those pictures.

I try to imagine that someone’s children, nephews etc are in those cars as well. I would not march in a pro-life event that has those, so that leaves me with little choice. I’ve marched in them before, I’m very, very pro-life, but I truly cringe at those pictures.

I know good people can disagree on this issue, but that’s how I feel.
 
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i don’t.
most of the folks i ever saw waving those pictures around just ended up with revulsion and disgust in me…frankly the poster wavers around here inspired nothing in me but contempt and fear. (and i wasnt pregnant or anything)
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i saw some pictures AFTER i started coming over to pro life that were better/not just disgusting. i could see those being effective.

so maybe it depends on what photos you think of?

me? i hand people Rosaries. i speak of John the Baptist “leaping in his mothers womb” and all that. if they are Christian.
if not? i just try to talk to them, listen to them, offer support and alternatives. and pray… a lot.
 
No. Never.

3D ultrasound imaging of a baby in utero is much, much more useful, and is not traumatizingto innocents who might see it.
 
I have used them before and they do really work for turning some people away from having an abortion. It would generally, for me, only be used if I counsel a woman who is listening, but still is in denial of existence of the human person in pregnancy.

It works, but only in certain instances also…so you have to try to read out the situation and what the person may need by where they lead you when you talk to them.

In certain instances it works the opposite way. I’m all for using a diverse array of tools to get a woman to change her mind. Each woman/man is different and each woman/man’s mindset is different. I say man, also, because the boyfriend, husband, brother, grandfather, friend, father, etc, can be convinced to go into the clinic and talk the woman out of the abortion.
 
Personally, I have not. In many ways though, I am torn over this issue.

In many ways, the pictures can be useful to show just how disgusting abortion really is. It is never talked about in the public sphere, and many people just choose to ignore what abortion truly is. However, I’m not sure forcing images in people’s faces is the best way to use them. Perhaps a better solution is to have pictures available, but give a warning and only have people look at them if they wish.

On the other hand, something seems wrong about showing a dismembered body of an innocent child. I think often it is forgotten that each child killed by abortion is a unique individual. A child is not just a number, he or she is uniquely willed and formed by God. And so, it seems like it might be disrespecting the poor child, as well as showing disrespect for the body.
 
In my pro-life work,I Iike to show pics of babies in the womb at different gestational ages.

In all honesty, I find the "abortion"pics offensive. Since when has it become ok to show public pics of murdered individuals. Even our liberal modern press that opposes any type of military action whatsoever refuses to show graphic public pics of victims. But we have folks in the prolife community who think it’s fine to exploit mangled innocents by placing pics of their deaths on a poster for all to see. I think it disrespects the dignity of the person to do so.
 
I don’t do this kind of pro-life work but if I did, I would show pictures of aborted babies to adults who were considering abortion. I think it is important that they realize just exactly what an abortion does to that living unborn child.
 
I think there may be a time and a place, in an individual setting, with one person who is trying to decide. It may help counter the doctors assurances about the procedure. But as for posters, I think that is out of line. I am an emotional person. In grade school I had to make a request to not see the abortion video, because I knew it would upset me. I know it is wrong. There is no reason I need to see a child torn to pieces. And people have brought it up before, you don’t need to expose children to that.
 
In the UK people have been convicted of criminal offences relating to offensive materials for sending graphic images of abortion through the post.
 
I’d never use them for a variety of reasons, and one of them is that I respect the right of parents to protect their children from age-inappropriate, graphic images of violence that may be psychologically damaging. Like SpaceNeedle, I think that respectful images of living, healthy babies are far more powerful.
 
If people can’t handle the pictures, why do they condone the act??? :confused:
 
No, I do not. I will describe what happens during an abortion if during the conversation it seems appropriate. I think in some cases it may be useful but in most cases it just makes people angry and ends the dialog.
 
I’m just saying my point is if people are so offended by pictues of abrotion, then they should be even more so offended by abortion itself. I’m not talking about the Catholics here who are indeed against abortion. I’m talking about people who complain to protesters for showing pictures of murdered children and yet they so casually treat abortion as some normal medical prosedure.
 
Rascalking said:
No, I would never, ever use those pictures. I find them disgusting. I am reminded of my beloved little neice (5 years old) and nephew (3 years old)-if they were driving by in a car they would be terrified of those pictures.

I try to imagine that someone’s children, nephews etc are in those cars as well. I would not march in a pro-life event that has those, so that leaves me with little choice. I’ve marched in them before, I’m very, very pro-life, but I truly cringe at those pictures.

I know good people can disagree on this issue, but that’s how I feel.
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they do more good than harm i don’t think anyone advocates giving them to young chidlren…

but i do know of one child (11?) who saw them & is radically pro-life as a result…

it seems to me that, generally speaking, people get more cynical and hard as they grow older… they have “seen it all”… etc… so sometimes it is not good to wait to long 2 show it to “children.” Teens should definitiely be shown these picutres… If they are old enough to get pregnant, old enough to abort, they are old enough to know the truth…

i think every american over the age of 12 should see them…

if that offends anyone… well, maybe abortion shouldn’t be legal…

since it is… :rolleyes:
 
DihydrogenOxide said:
I have used them before and they do really work for turning some people away from having an abortion. It would generally, for me, only be used if I counsel a woman who is listening, but still is in denial of existence of the human person in pregnancy.

It works, but only in certain instances also…so you have to try to read out the situation and what the person may need by where they lead you when you talk to them.

In certain instances it works the opposite way. I’m all for using a diverse array of tools to get a woman to change her mind. Each woman/man is different and each woman/man’s mindset is different. I say man, also, because the boyfriend, husband, brother, grandfather, friend, father, etc, can be convinced to go into the clinic and talk the woman out of the abortion.
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i don’t see how it could work against the pro-life cause… If someone iss “disgusted” by the images… and refuses to be pro life because the pro-lifers had the “nerve” to show them to him/her… t hat person wasgoing to abort anyway…

there are people who have no conscience… there’s probably more of them in socieyt than anyone wants to acknowledge…
 
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hamburglar said:
Personally, I have not. In many ways though, I am torn over this issue.

In many ways, the pictures can be useful to show just how disgusting abortion really is. It is never talked about in the public sphere, and many people just choose to ignore what abortion truly is. However, I’m not sure forcing images in people’s faces is the best way to use them. Perhaps a better solution is to have pictures available, but give a warning and only have people look at them if they wish.

On the other hand, something seems wrong about showing a dismembered body of an innocent child. I think often it is forgotten that each child killed by abortion is a unique individual. A child is not just a number, he or she is uniquely willed and formed by God. And so, it seems like it might be disrespecting the poor child, as well as showing disrespect for the body.
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if such “disrespect” saves even ONE child’s life, the child won’t have died in vain… 😦
 
MamaJewel said:
In my pro-life work,I Iike to show pics of babies in the womb at different gestational ages.

In all honesty, I find the "abortion"pics offensive. Since when has it become ok to show public pics of murdered individuals. .
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since it does good…

since it prevents more death…

since it makes our country more pro-life…

it is the act of murder that is offensive, not telling people, or showing people that this is really going on (etc…)…

too bad it isn’t so offensive that people outlaw it…
 
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