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Anti-abortion posters draw complaints(and threats of bodily harm)
http://www.pittsburghlive.com ^ | 7 1 06 | Tom Mitchell

Posted on 07/05/2006 11:17:05 PM PDT by freepatriot32

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To: SR 50
I agree...and a dialogue is just what we need on abortion. It's incredible how so many people can just be so passive on the subject. No matter how hard you try to redefine it or clean it up, you always end with the same result: a dead baby.
21 posted on 07/06/2006 8:28:09 AM PDT by bushinohio
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Yeah but I would hate for my kids to see a truck driving around with pictures of dead Iraqi babies that read "Killed by The Bush Administration".

I think these "abortion porn" types are just exhibitionists


22 posted on 07/06/2006 8:31:26 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: KantianBurke
Kids should be left alone, not exposed to the evil that is abortion.

In just a few short years some of those very same kids might be probably be faced with the 'choice' of possibly killing a baby. Just a few short years after that they will be voters. Better they are exposed now before the leftist brainwashing has convinced them it is just an unwanted mass of tissue. Note the quote 'why is there a dead baby'. Now in their innocence they don't justify what has been killed. And they will not forget what they have seen.

23 posted on 07/06/2006 9:27:14 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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The children started to ask questions, such as 'Is that an abortion?' and 'Why is there a dead baby...?' I told them I wasn't comfortable discussing it and that they should refer their questions to their parents. This was all witnessed by myself and four other staff members."

Unless these kids were all over the age of 10, I call BS on this story. Most little kids wouldn't even notice, much less connect the pictures to an abortion.

That being said, I don't particularly like these rolling billboards. They are gruesome, and though some folks believe others need to be shocked into the reality of abortion, I don't agree. The same thing applies to the realities of war. I don't think it we need to see mutilated bodies of soldiers and civilians on billboards in order to understand the brutality of war. Put it in the daily newspaper for older kids and adults to read and understand, but leave it off of large public displays.

24 posted on 07/06/2006 9:31:50 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: freepatriot32

Looks like another case of "abortion is OK, just don't talk about it."


25 posted on 07/06/2006 9:40:36 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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I've seen these trucks many times ,, they usually roll during the rush hours for maximum exposure to adults.. every time I've seen them there are indeed camera's rolling , in the chase car (usually a Crown Vic that looks like but is not a law enforcement vehicle) to make sure the pro-aborts don't get violent toward the truck drivers..

As far as I'm concerned the truth has to be told ,, the media and the teachers (brainwashers) in the government schools have to be countered, especially as the pro aborts are pushing more and more that it's neat clean and easy , just take a pill!!


26 posted on 07/06/2006 12:19:38 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: freepatriot32
I agree with their position, but I'm put off by these tactics. It seems crassly exploitative to flaunt these little victims. I'd feel the same way about a gruesome billboard showing a victim of an ugly drunk driving crash. It hardens people's heart against your message.

Where is the Christ-like love and understanding that could reach out to these young mothers who are about to make a tragic choice?

27 posted on 07/06/2006 1:21:55 PM PDT by Sisku Hanne (*Support DIANA IREY for US Congress!* Send "Cut-n-Run" Murtha packing: HIT THE ROAD, JACK!)
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To: trebb

"but I also see them using the kids as captive audiences in the schools to indoctrinate them into supporting abortion, homosexuality"

How about all sides LET KIDS BE KIDS?!! A crazy idea for sure but leave them out of the conflicts which at their young age they don't have the ability to comprehend in the first place. Kinda the reason they don't the right to vote last time I checked.

In the end all that happens is a 5 year old sees these images, gets nightmares and puts the parent in bad position for us antiabortion advocates i.e. one which won't engender much sympathy towards the side upsetting their children.


28 posted on 07/06/2006 7:41:31 PM PDT by KantianBurke
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How about all sides LET KIDS BE KIDS?!! A crazy idea for sure but leave them out of the conflicts which at their young age they don't have the ability to comprehend in the first place. Kinda the reason they don't the right to vote last time I checked.

I agree, but it only works if the "other side" also leaves them alone. If you have an immoral force doing everything it can to indocrinate the kids, it would seem one would have a moral imperative to try to negate the indoctrination. Showing them the ugly results may not always be the best approach, but pretending it doesn't happen, and trying to put forth a rational argument to the children is not effective enough to stop the propaganda of moral turpetude from doing its thing to them. Just because there isn't a peachy-keen, super-duper, PROPR way to do it doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. Sometimes the lesser of two evils is the only right choice.

If you can figure out how to keep the forces of evil from taking an active role in subverting and perverting the kids, I will totally agree that showing them aborted fetuses is wrong.

29 posted on 07/08/2006 6:47:57 AM PDT by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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