I am against abortion.
I am horrified by it altogether.
I teach my children the horrors of it.
But that’s the thing, I teach them. I find these trucks to be offensive when they go where children can see them. My nephew was horribly traumatized by one of these at the beach. It wasn’t fair.
They give Pro-Life people a bad name.
Flame away.
I agree that these images are offensive, but they should be offensive, 3500 abortions a day is far more offensive to me. And yes, they can be particularly traumatic to children, but not nearly as traumatic as the infanticide endured by 50 million babies since 1973.
Not as traumatized as the victim.
Until the society face up to the evils of abortion, it will never stop, and how can society face up to the evil if we can’t show why it is evil?
The pictures are gruesome because the act is gruesome. I’m sorry but I’m glad your nephew was traumatized, the problem right now is precisely not enough people are traumatized. A million dead babies every year SHOULD traumatize us all. It should make us all scream in abject horror.
I wonder though, what kind of name do these trucks give Pro-Choice people?
Your nephew was traumatized because the predominant message he gets from his school, his friends, and the media is that this "fetus" thing is not a human being. He should have seen those images within the framework of his moral training by his family.
May his trauma develop into activism within his age group to educate his peers that it's a child, not a choice.
You’re not alone in this opinion. I agree with you completely.
Tough times require tough people.
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I agree with you. As adults, it is our job to protect children.
“They give Pro-Life people a bad name.”
I prefer you be offended and one or 2 or 3 or more children be traumatized and ultimately see abortion end than to see one more child die at the hands of a murdering abortionist.
No flames from me. I totally agree with you.
I understand, but no one stops NARAL and Planned Parenthood and so forth from putting things (i.e. pictures of happy women who have, supposedly, improved their lives through abortion) where children can see them.
My nephew was horribly traumatized by one of these at the beach. It wasn’t fair.
It also isn't fair that he is slowly brainwashed by the things I mention above.
They give Pro-Life people a bad name.
In the view of some.
I lock out most of the channels on our tv. I monitor every book and magazine that comes into our home. I know every note of music my boys listen to. I do everything that I can to introduce them to subjects when I, their mother, know they have reached an appropriate level of maturity. This stunt knocks me right out of the driver's seat. Boils my blood.
If that is the reaction from an ardent pro-lifer like myself, I can only imagine the reactions of the fence-sitters.
This from your freeper page about you...
“By denying that she ever existed, Disney has altered a classic. It’s wrong. A part of our history is gone. How can I teach my children the sins of the past if we sanitize everything?”
Isn’t it a bit odd for you to post the above quote, as you are so concerned about denying certain truths...hiding part “of our history....teaching [your] children the sins of the past”, yet complain that we need to censure the photos of what abortion is really about?
I thought you didn’t want it “sanatized”? Yet now you are complaining.
You are more concerned about hiding Disney cartoons because they are not PC than you are about revealing that “aborting fetuses” is really killing babies?
huh? Bit of a quagmire for you eh?
O.K.... So Then, you are NOT FOR the murder of people(babies) as long "we" keep it quiet and not in your face?..
You know, like the gays, atheists, leftists do constantly...
I agree about discretion where children are concerned. I was criticized for *overprotecting* my children at that age, but there are some things they just don’t need to see; they’re not mentally,and emotionally mature enough to handle them. My kids never had nightmares and night terrors and if some kid ends up with them because of these images, who’s going to be sitting up at night with them? Certainly not the people that caused it.
Putting something like that at a place that’s family friendly is likely preaching at the choir. If those people feel it ABSOLUTELY necessary to post images of preborn children, there’s many that could be substituted. The classic ones of the fetus sucking his thumb would work well and even a little child would get the message without being traumatized.
It’s hard to look at pictures of a fetus and not see how well they’re developed and how human they look.
I understand exactly where you are coming from with this. It would be great to see the picture of the baby’s hand holding the Dr’s finger (Samuel?), or picture of an infant and the words, “I am not an exception or a choice.”
Sometimes war means doing unpleasant things.
Sorry that your nephew was traumatized. You don't exactly say what the nature of the trauma was, or how it has affected your nephew.
I, too, was traumatized when I was about 8 years old. It was then that I saw the films of the liberation of the Nazi death camps at the end of WWII.
Those films had a profound effect on me -- I suppose you could say they "traumatized" me. They certainly convinced me that what they showed was terribly evil.
And they have left am impression on me. To this day -- almost 50 years after I saw them for the first time -- those "traumatizing" films have served to convince me that that sort of evil must never happen again.
Sometimes "trauma" does have good effects.
I agree that the images are traumatic, but that’s the reality of the holocaust that is abortion. The solution is not to do away with the images due to sensitivity, the solution is to do away with abortion.
Besides abortion is far more traumatic to the recipient than it is to anyone else who is looking at those pictures. “Choice”, indeed.