Posted on 11/28/2007 3:25:54 PM PST by topher
Do men share any of the moral responsibility in ending abortion? In other words, do you admire promiscuous men who oppose abortion?
Come-on, somone has stolen your identitiy here at FR and is posting stupid stuff making you look like an idiot. Better track them down and stop them.
SCOTUS made this a politcal issue over 34 years ago, and it's been a hot-potato political issue since then.
Convince those who stole your identitiy to climb out from under that rock and look at the RAT politacl Party platform for the last decades.
Exactly. Only their 'feelings' count.
That's why they don't want to see the result of their decision. It might hurt their 'feelings'.
No, she’s making good points.
I’ll add one: desensitization. Such images may have a place in a limited, instructional setting, otherwise, especially being dragged around on trucks like this, they lose their shock value.
Maybe they *are* whores.
"See my point?"
Your point is nothing more than 'women demand the right to make bad decisions but do not have to pay the price for those bad decisions'.
I had a feeling it was going to be the man's fault...
And you are certainly free to act on your opinions.
Just as other people are free to think that other types of photos are 'more effective' and act on those opinions.
So they’re not working in your opinion. That’s just your opinion, and you’re entitled to it. Just because in your opinion it’s offensive, so freaking what? This is America and the police have no rights to do what they did, offended as they were just like you.
You go ahead and work toward what you think works, and leave these people alone to do what they think is right. Truth, as ugly as it is, is shining the light on what is done in darkness, hidden, then lied about (just a clump of cells, no big deal) and the purveyors of this evil scatter like the cockroaches they are.
Just my opinion, shrug it off, you’re right. They shoulda locked those asswipes up and thrown away the key for expressing their opinion in that man’s county. Taken the truck out and burned it. Hey, it’s woodsy Georgia, I’m not surprised
What law did he break?
Your daughter just witnessed the atrocity, the fetus experienced it. People need to see the results of this monstrosity. I'm sorry your daughter was upset.
Wrong again.
I see a pattern developing.
It’s still wrong to vandalize private property, even if you are the police, even if you don’t like the message.
One of these trucks is parked across from one of the high schools in town sometimes.
Im my experience, it does two things:
1). It makes the pro-life people look like loons. The few kids who see it point and laugh. If you can consider your opponents loons, you don’t have to consider what they say.
2). It inoculates people *against* the horrors of abortion. If you see slaughter every day, eventually, it doesn’t bother you. Most of the high school kids - the majority - don’t even give it a second glance.
So if their goal is to make people laugh at them and to make abortion seem “every day - not too bad”, they are doing a bang-up job.
If their goal is to somehow positively influence the abortion debate, they fail and fail miserably.
Some people seem to think that the “war” against abortion can be won using shock tactics and pat themselves on the back for a job well-done when they manage what they see as a “win”. I disagree strongly. All publicity is not good publicity.
So even if one is against abortion 100%, they have to look at that obsenity in public? Can you drive a truck around with a billboard showing hard core pornography? Both are equally distasteful and disruptive. Guy is rightfully charged and deserves punishment.
I’m surprised that you can display dead bodies on the side of a truck - the standards for public signs are more rigorous than any kind of private viewing.
I suspect that they would not allow the dead bodies of soldiers or concentration camp victims, for example.
He wasn't charged with obsenity, or for displaying the images. The charge was disorderly conduct. He may have the right to show the pictured, but if he is causing a public disturbance, then he is breaking the law. The right to show the pictures is not in question.
Bella is not so much a pro-life movie, as one person told me, as a movie about pro-life issues.
In terms of influencing people on abortion, I personally rode with the CBR effort known as RCC.
CBR is the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform and they take a totally different approach than Operation Rescue.
Their trucks use the Reproductive Choice Campaign, and they have the word CHOICE on the signs, along with a picture of an aborted baby [fetus] with something to show the size. They put their website on the side of the TRUCK along with a PHONE NUMBER that women can call if they want to seek counseling.
Some people objected to these trucks in the 2004 Election Campaign. Others, when they saw the images, realized what abortion was all about.
They can change hearts.
CBR is at www.abortionNo.org
The RREPODUCTIVE CHOICE CAMPAIGN for this website is at: www.AbortionNo.org/RCC.html
They also have their GAP project -- or Genocide Awareness Project. For this project, they set up a display on a University and invite students to discuss the issue of abortion...
As to the approach Operation Rescue takes, it is one of the more radical approaches to pro-life, and is very confrontational.
But the police should never break the law and set a bad example for others...
Your post is not responsive to mine.
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