October 09, 2007

I've Always Thought . . .

that the pro-life people and the pro-choice people should spend more time talking to (rather than talking past) each other:

They said they did not want us bringing the pro-life message to campus because they did not want to see dead babies on the way to the cafeteria or the library. At first I thought I was sad because the pro-lifers who do not display pictures of dead babies were being lumped together with those who do.

But then I realized I was sad for another reason: Some of my students who wrote these things had experienced abortion firsthand.

And so I have been thinking and I have decided it is time for us to change the way we do a couple of things in the campus pro-life movement. First, I think we can start by replacing pictures of the dead, dismembered fetus with pictures of some live ones. Instead of reminding people of what a horrible thing they did in the past when they had an abortion we can focus on what a beautiful thing the fetus is and how much more beautiful it can be in the future.

Via Kathy Shaidle.

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Posted by: The Puddle Pirate at October 10, 2007 03:31 PM (7+zqQ)

2 Works for me. I've never seen the persuasive point of the dismembered babies.

Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at October 10, 2007 08:08 PM (IpB84)

3 One factoid I recall from about ten years ago was a survey in which a large majority of women who had aborted a pregnancy said that the decision was greatly influenced by the men in their respective lives, and that it was the man's lack of support for keeping the baby which led to the decision to terminate. If this is truly representative, then there are a few men who need a lesson in not engaging in the cause of unwanted effects.

Posted by: John at October 13, 2007 04:32 AM (jS8Ay)

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