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To: Aquinasfan
One of the defintions of pornography is:
Gruesome or senstational material causing shock or horror.

If your self image interfers with your accepting the images as pornographic, maybe you will accept "obscene." The definition of obscene being:
Repulsive; disgusting; Offensive to accepted standards of decency.

38 posted on 12/03/2001 9:40:41 AM PST by pcl
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To: pcl
Well, the photos are disgusting and disturbing. No doubt about that.

But what's worse is that these babies are being killed now. Would you have objected to a billboard campaign in Germany during WWII showing photos of bulldozers plowing piles of corpses?

39 posted on 12/03/2001 9:57:15 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: pcl
Although the images will most certainly be disturbing, I find the actual killing of unborn, defenseless babies to be far more disgusting, repulsive and offensive than the mere photographs that show the results.

At what point do you believe that a fetus actually becomes human, just out of curiosity? They somehow miraculously transmute at the moment they leave the birth canal? Or perhaps you agree with Peter Singer, and believe that infanticide is okay up to the end of the first year of life? Or perhaps your argument is that it's okay to kill them because they are dependent upon the mother--so do you then believe in killing those on respirators or dialysis machines? The point is, there is no logical defense for abortion.

Pregnancy may not always be welcome or convenient for some, but for those cases: adoption is the option.

43 posted on 12/03/2001 3:39:32 PM PST by austinTparty
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To: pcl
You are reaching, as usual. Apart from the word's inescapable etymology (porneia = "prostitution"), there's the fact that all extended definitions of pornography include a sense of morbid prurience. If these trucks are pornographic, then so are the films of the Nazi death camps.
51 posted on 12/03/2001 7:38:35 PM PST by Romulus
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