Protests should use abortion pictures
Why is it so offensive to parents that their children see real pictures of real human beings murdered when those same parents think nothing of letting their children of all ages watch brutal, gory movies and play gruesome video games involving indiscriminate murder? Avoiding the facts about abortion will not make the act any less heinous. People don't like to know reality when doing so means they might have to face their consciences.
The pictures and films of people murdered during the Holocaust shown to us as children did not mar us for life but instead indelibly marked our hearts with empathy and compassion for others. With adult guidance, children who see real pictures of babies butchered during abortion will develop the same empathy and compassion and learn to value the lives of all human beings no matter their size, shape, mental or physical development, or dependence on others for survival. They will know that a child's life is no less valuable because that child is housed in another human being's body.
Those people objecting to graphic pictures of aborted babies would scream in favor of women making informed decisions. However, informed decisions are not born of the truth wrapped in pretty, sugarcoated packages. Sometimes the truth is darn ugly.
Planned Parenthood objects vehemently to women seeing pictures of how their babies die during abortion because that organization is determined to deceive women and the public by keeping the facts from them. If after seeing the brutality aborting babies involves, women find alternatives to abortion much more attractive and reasonable, what could Planned Parenthood have against that? Oh yea, they'd be out of business.
Mary E. Keenan
Schaumburg