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Opening the Casket on Abortion
In an article in the July 15 issue of the Wanderer, Dexter Duggan quotes pro-life speaker Steve Wagner who tells his audiences that the move to television changed the way people take in information. Their attention span is very short. They think in sound bites and learn with pictures. Wagner insists that if a person expresses resentment over seeing an accurate pictures of an aborted baby, they are forgetting that people need pictures to move the debate over abortion from the abstract to the real, and that it has to become visual.
He reminds his audience of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black youth who was beaten and drowned, and that his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral because, "I want the whole world to see what they did to my boy." Wagner tells of a student who immediately changed his thinking on abortion and commented, "I think what you're doing by showing these horrible abortion pictures is opening the casket on abortion." Makes sense to me.
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Exactly right.
I've been sayint this for years in abortion debates. There are all kinds of shows on TV showing in graphic detail medical operations, liver transplants, etc. They are gory and nauseating to people who can't stand the sight of blood, but there has never been an outcry against these shows existing for those who want to watch.
But there were never any of these medical shows showing abortion. Why not? It's a common "medical procedure".
I've asked loads of pro-Choice people why you never see an abortion on TV and they never give a straight answer. Or they say "Who wants to see that?" Well ..... who wants to see a liver transplant or open heart surgery? Obviously SOME people watch these shows, and they show every surgery there is, even liposuction which is disgusting ... and people watch ... so why don't they show abortion?
They never answer.
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THE PING!So, what should be seen once the casket is open? First, one should be able to decide from the pictures if the fetus is indeed an innocent human person. If it is, then the question of how, if ever, it is justifiable to end an innocent human's life must be answered. One must either conclude that there are times when it is OK to end an innocent human life or that abortion is murder and must be stopped.
That has always bothered me the most: Anyone being putting to death must be convicted first of a capital crime. I once backed a pro-choicer into the corner on this one. She was forced back to the increasingly untennable "personhood" argument. As 1) scientific observational capacity advances, and 2) groups distributing and displaying these horrific images increase and disseminate, more people will be obliged to resolve this in their own minds.
Second, if abortion is nothing more than a simple medical procedure, then the aftermath should not be a problem to look at. If the panels contained pictures of pulled wisdom teeth or of women and men with stitches, although it might seem odd and disgusting, one would not object to this as fiercely as he might the Justice for All demonstration.
A solid polemic to be used to bring out the inconsistency of the pro-choice position. Reasonable people, not blinded by self interest, will see it.
Now, why isn't this an election issue? If Bush is a "murderer" for pursuing murderers, where's that leave Kerry, having supported policies that have murdered more than 44 MILLION?