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

[masha]

I find it very effective to show the healthy child at various stages of development, to relate it to the audience by saying, “This is what you looked like when you were only a few days old in the womb”) and to explain to them that they had a soul, and that God had a purpose for their lives, at the very moment of conception.

I completely agree! This respects the dignity of all involved and really makes a connection with those you’re speaking to.

 

[distracted]

The pictures are misleading. The pictures are always of third trimester abortion, which accounts for only a tiny amount of actual abortions. Nearly 90% of abortions occur in the first trimester. A picture of that would be identical in appearance to what women see every month in their usual flow.

the images i first saw where NOT 3rd trimester… and even if they were, doesn’t matter… abortion is abortion is abortion… death at any age is still death…

 

[distracted]

There must be an awful place in hell prepared for those so-called “physicians” who make their living tearing apart thousands of babies babies limb from limb.

Bloody evil.

yeah, its called The Lowest depths…

god hates abortion worse than any sin, apparently… when u read Deauteronomy… and etc…about how he demanded that the person sacrificing his children to Molech be stoned to death and if the people wouldt stone him, God would set himself agains that man… (curse him)…

****in one part, it says that “sin entered the camp” when the people began doing this… as if no sin was there b4???

no… as if to say that killing your children is the ultimate sin…****

 

[distracted]

Umm, it offends pro-life people, not just pro-choice people. Some people feel it is disrespectful to the child. Some people just don’t want to see that.

too bad… boo hoo… maybe it should be against the law to DO it, not SHOW it…

 

[distracted]

We don’t hold up graphic poster images of murdered 9 year old, 10 year old, and 11 year old children to “prevent more death and abuse” of children…So why is it acceptable to do that in the case of a child at 9 weeks, 10 weeks or 11 weeks gestation? It doesn’t respect the “human” dignity of the victim and that too, is offensive.

If there is a better way,that involves respecting the dignity of the person, then that should be utilized first. imho

um HELLOOOOOOOOOO!!!

murdering a 9 yr old is against the law…

murdering a 9 wk old baby is NOT!!!

 

[hellopeople]

Unlike prostitutes and tax collectors, nobody has ever been kidnapped and forced into the life of an abortionist - it’s a field that they choose to go into, as opposed to family medicine, etc.

Most prostitutes and tax collectors don’t get kidnapped.

 

[aspirant]

Most prostitutes… don’t get kidnapped.

This isn’t accurate. Many sex workers are victims of human trafficking.

 

[angelerulastiel]

too bad… boo hoo… maybe it should be against the law to DO it, not SHOW it…

Or maybe both should be against the law. The fact that people don’t want pictures of aborted babies shown in public has absolutely no bearing on the legal status, or their feelings about the legal status, of abortion.

My comment was in response to your accusation that people who don’t want the pictures shown are pro-choice.

 

[jmcrae]

Most prostitutes and tax collectors don’t get kidnapped.

Most prostitutes are, in fact, victims of kidnapping. There are very few people who get into that line of business without being forced into it. Other less pleasant names for prostitution are “white slavery” and “human trafficking.”

The tax collectors at the time of Jesus were forced into that line of work by means of blackmail; it was not their free choice, to go into that line of work. The Romans would find something nasty in the person’s past, and threaten to reveal it to their loved ones, unless they would work for them against their own people, as tax collectors.

 

[kage_ar]

The pictures are misleading. The pictures are always of third trimester abortion, which accounts for only a tiny amount of actual abortions. Nearly 90% of abortions occur in the first trimester. A picture of that would be identical in appearance to what women see every month in their usual flow.

You can see a 10 week child here. These babies look like NOTHING I’ve seen in my mestrual flow.

These are chidren, with tiny feet and hands and faces.

Please, educate yourself about life.

 

[distracted]

***You can see a 10 week child here.
These are chidren, with tiny feet and hands and faces.

Please, educate yourself about life***.

some pepole, even when educated, don’t want abortion outlawed… as it was for thousands of yrs b4… pepole lost their minds…

they just keep thinking that choice sounds better than Life…

the god of choice… must be worshipped… must be fed the humna sacrifices…

just like in South & central America before Cortes conquered in Mexico (etc) …

nothing changes, does it? sigh

 

[distracted]

go to armyofgod.com (or net?)…

i would dare say 90% (at least) would not believe in abortion after …

 

[distracted]

i think it is necessary to show people these pictures… people over the age of about 12…

they show people reality…

and truth is what we need…

b4 i saw those pictures, an unborn child who doesn’t make his mother look pregannt yet was not real to me… didnt think abortion was that big a deal… (weird… how we can be so clueless in our natural state… ) but i was very young…

because i was raised Cathlic, i investigated the issue and when i saw those picture… that did it for me… told myself i would never hv an abortion even if my life were in danger…

something that, by the way, is extremely rare…

this can be said for others i know also… that when they see the photos… they are pro-life…

 

[stringbeanduck]

I don’t since my work is mostly prayer and projects. I think these pictures have their place to inform people what happens when you have an abortion, however ultimately I think people are changed by prayers, kindness, and education. In other words using them as a pure scare tactic I don’t agree with. Lots of people have a different style when it comes to war against abortion. Many people often shout hateful words, phrases, and even curses. I’ve seen preachers in front of clinics say things for instance: “God hates you” and “You will suffer forever”. Abortion IMO is one of the- if not the worst actions that plague this world, but not only is this method pointless, it actually works against the common goal of the pro-life movement. Christ never said anything about changing your enemy’s heart with hate. In my personal experience I have seen more women and men be touched by a group of people praying the Rosary or from prayer book than ones who are waving graphic signs and chanting hateful words. When they see graphic signs all they can see is people that hate them. They don’t see what they are doing is wrong. They are not getting the message there is hope for them and their baby by not having an abortion.

 

[vera_dicere]

I view them as another tool for the Pro-Lifer. But honestly, I think we should be using the images of living embryos and foetuses.

The images themselves don’t disgust me or bother me, and I care not if they bother children, because honestly, they can see worse on the news or video games. With that said, I grew up on a farm so I’ve seen things that make most people sick anyway.

Long and short of it, I won’t denounce them, I think they have just as much value as anything else, and as Fr. Pavone says, America won’t reject abortion until America sees abortion.

The pro-abortion movement has done a very good job at hiding this child murder behind closed doors. I think people need to see what htey support, up close and personal with disembodied children and bowels and snapped spines and all the gore that entails.

If its just a blob, if its just a non-human, non-person cluster of cells, then why not show these images?

The truth is never pleasant to the self-imposed ignorant or liars. Let them see the fruit of their works.

 

[vera_dicere]

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

I think the problem there is that those other born murdered individuals are protected by law. They are “persons” the unborn, legally isn’t.

If you haven’t heard of him, Google Emmett Till, read his story.

Not to mention, how many of us have not seen images of piles of dead Jewish people, filling up mass graves outside of broken crematorium? I wonder if so many young people don’t even know what Auschwitz is because of this “oh, no, we can’t show those awful pictures” mentality.

 

[vera_dicere]

go to armyofgod.com (or net?)…

i would dare say 90% (at least) would not believe in abortion after …

Those people are not the ones you want to be linking too nor emulating.

Medically verified images can be seen at priests for life, and they don’t go around condemning “f@gs” to Hell or lauding the likes of Roeder.

 

[vera_dicere]

As a side note, I also find it highly interesting, if not annoying, that places like YouTube will shut down any medically accurate video of an abortion in process or any sort of really graphic abortion imagery, however, on the same site you can access pretty much any other medical procedure.

If it was a guy standing outside a dentist’s with a giant blown up photo of a root cannel saying tooth removal is murder, we’d all think he’d was a little touched in the head, but how many people here would be truly offended by the gore?

It says a heck of a lot about people’s sensibilities if they’re not offended by the gore on the news but not the remains of a child who is legally not even a person.

 

[Monica02]

The photos of abortion are an excellent way to expose the TRUTH of abortion. I do indeed show them.

I was participating in one demonstration and as usual the police arrived. One officer thought he came up with a clever way to force us to stop. He was very professional about it and I think he wanted to quell the numerous complaints. I was defending our right to freedom of speech and he replied, quite confidently and sincerely “You are committing a crime - it is illegal to show pictures of a crime victim”. I said “Good point - when what happened to this poor baby is a crime, I will no longer show the pictures”. The officer shook his head in a defeated, yes gesture saying “Yeah - I get your point”.

The officer’s gut reaction to the posters was that this killing is wrong. He knows it, everyone knows it and that is why I show the pictures.

It is effective and easy to verbally engineer statements to convince people that abortion should be legal. The pictures are not so easy to explain away.

 

[distracted]

Those people are not the ones you want to be linking too nor emulating.

Medically verified images can be seen at priests for life, and they don’t go around condemning “f@gs” to Hell or lauding the likes of Roeder.

i agree that that site is not the best… and that thye should not be attacking gays the way some of them are…

but as to Roeder…

have you ever seen that video (interview) on what he has to say about what he did?

to call it 1st degr murder would be like saying someone trying to kill Stalin or Hitler was (if he had succeeded) guilty of 1st degree murder

1st degree murder… is defined as killing someone w/o justification"… Defending the lifes of others is the ultimate justication Don’t u agree?

Some dont believe abortion is really murder and so there was no justification… but Roeder believed it to be murder & therfore felt he was justified