That’s probably the best argument I’ve heard here on FR for why showing pictures of abortion shouldn’t be looked at as a bad thing.
I just wish this were in the past, like the Holocaust was when we saw pictures when I was growing up. I remembering being warned in school history classes that “the stuff you’ll see in this film is graphic, it may be hard to watch”. I don’t think people had to be among those IN the camps, or among the soldiers freeing them to understand what happened there.
That may be the ONLY objection I would have. Not in SHOWING the pictures, but in being responsible in the hows and whens if at all possible because it could be traumatic for children especially...
But as far as I know Dr. Keyes, and group were using DOLLS, on a UNIVERSITY campus — it’s not like they took huge pictures to a Chuck E. Cheese or something. So, I see this a little differently even than the pictures method.
For forty years abortionists have been repeating the LIE that an abortion removes nothing more than a “clump of cells”, that a woman should be worried about things like hairstyles and she shouldn’t think twice about removing this “unwanted growth” which will interfere with her social life and impede her career ambitions — the pictures of aborted babies PROVE that this is a LIE and THAT’S what disturbs most people about the pictures.
Pictures of the Holocaust serve as a proof of an historical crime in hopes that it will never occur again. Pictures of aborted babies serve as proof of an ongoing holocaust and document a crime that occurs EVERY 24 SECONDS in the United States.
Kids need to be taught what to fear. I saw such pictures also when I was a kid. When I was about 19 I saw another picture actual footage of many brave men getting killed in the line of duty fighting one of the worst shipboard fires in the history of the U.S. Navy. It was required viewing. It was very graphic and uncut. Once you saw it you understood what happened and how to prevent or limit it from happening again. I saw that film a half a dozen times as I was also an onboard fire fighter.
I've read the Bible since my early childhood. Although at times I have strayed from it I still believe in the Gospel and try to live in The Word. OK here's my point. All Christians know and understand Christ was nailed to the cross as most of us have read it many times over. Yet seeing it enacted in a movie like "The Greatest Story Ever Told, Jesus of Nazareth, or even The Gospel Road, reminds me in a way words can't of the reality of His pain and suffering. It's not something I would do every day as the mind can become desensitized to such but once a year is or so is healthy.
Kids at a certain age need to be told and shown the truths of life for their own sake. A kid at age 12 should be shown the abortion pictures. Do so just as a preacher from time to time still needs to preach about hell and eternal damnation although many now days don't. I survived many a sermon on that matter as a child. It gave me something to fear and to think about even now in my 50's.