The Emmitt Till Story: The Link Between Civil Rights & Abortion

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Pro: Yes, the Truth has been concealed too long. We must show people the Truth if we are to obtain lasting change.

Con: No, this runs the risk of alienating people, the photos are overly-graphic and unsuitable for children and the squeamish.

There are arguments on both sides. I’d rather err on the side of telling the Truth rather than concealing it.
 
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Pro: Yes, the Truth has been concealed too long. We must show people the Truth if we are to obtain lasting change.

Con: No, this runs the risk of alienating people, the photos are overly-graphic and unsuitable for children and the squeamish.

There are arguments on both sides. I’d rather err on the side of telling the Truth rather than concealing it.
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Here’s more arguments on the Pro/Con debate…

illinoisleader.com/opinion/opinionview.asp?c=7342

illinoisleader.com/opinion/opinionview.asp?c=7175

illinoisleader.com/letters/lettersview.asp?c=7389

illinoisleader.com/letters/lettersview.asp?c=7491
 
Of course. People (especially the girls who have abortions who sit in my freshman English classes) need to see that abortion doesn’t remove “tissue”–it kills babies. A picture is worth…
 
Yes, show me the truth! Yesterday afternoon at my daughter’s ballgame, I met up with a woman whom I was a friend with in my youth. About 16 years ago she found herself single and pregnant and had an abortion. She has never married nor had other children. All the people who pursuaded her to have this abortion are either married with children or at least have children. I feel sad for her and I wonder what would have been different about her life if she would have had this baby…

SO YES, SHOW US THE TRUTH!!!
 
It was because of graphic pictures of aborted babies that I am pro-life today.

I had been baptised in 1998 and was in confirmation class (at age 23) when my RCIA/Confirmation teacher wanted me to go to the Pro-Life March in Washinton D.C. in January of 1999. A product of public school Planned Parenthood-run “sex ed”, I shrugged and told her, “I’m pro-Choice. It’s up to a woman to decide. Besides, it’s not a baby at that point: it’s just a blob of flesh.”

She sent me anyway.

Within five minutes of my arrial I was transformed into a 100% staunch, passionate, very-angry-at-having-been-lied-to-all-this-time PRO LIFER. Why? Because I saw pictures of aborted babies on the signs weilded by pro-lifers as we gathered up before the march.

There’s something mighty powerful about seeing a whole baby, complete with hair and fingernails and little eyes, that proves to a woman that it IS a baby and NOT a “blob of flesh.” And sometimes graphic pictures are the only things that work.
 
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It was because of graphic pictures of aborted babies that I am pro-life today.

I had been baptised in 1998 and was in confirmation class (at age 23) when my RCIA/Confirmation teacher wanted me to go to the Pro-Life March in Washinton D.C. in January of 1999. A product of public school Planned Parenthood-run “sex ed”, I shrugged and told her, “I’m pro-Choice. It’s up to a woman to decide. Besides, it’s not a baby at that point: it’s just a blob of flesh.”

She sent me anyway.

Within five minutes of my arrial I was transformed into a 100% staunch, passionate, very-angry-at-having-been-lied-to-all-this-time PRO LIFER. Why? Because I saw pictures of aborted babies on the signs weilded by pro-lifers as we gathered up before the march.

There’s something mighty powerful about seeing a whole baby, complete with hair and fingernails and little eyes, that proves to a woman that it IS a baby and NOT a “blob of flesh.” And sometimes graphic pictures are the only things that work.
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Nice to hear. Check out these pictures of Fetal Development at the Priests for Life website. They are the best I have ever seen!

priestsforlife.org/resources/abortionimages/fetaldevelopment.htm
 
These photos are offensive because abortions are offensive. Look, if we can have photos of Abu Ghraib used to demonstrate acts against human dignity, then surely we can use photos to demonstrate the ultimate assault on human dignity.
 
I understand how the pictures can be effective for some people.

My concern was a little different. When I lived just outside of DC, I really wanted to take my children down to the Right to Life March. Many of their classmates went with their parents. Or, I’d like to take them with me to do a vigil outside an abortion mill.

But I can’t expose my children (at the time, 1st grade and up) to those pictures. It would be totally wrong to brutalize my kids in that way. I am already working to preserve their childhood innocence in a culture determined to destroy it and ualize them.
 
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