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Yesterday, League Director Joe Scheidler wrote about the attention surrounding a series of ads featuring graphic images of aborted babies currently being run by Washington, DC congressional candidate Missy Smith.
One of the most bizarre reactions to Smith’s ads has come from CBS’s BNET.com reporter Jim Edwards, who said they constitute “a type of pornography that’s about 1,000 times more unnecessary than anything that ever appeared in [Larry Flynt's magazine] Hustler.”
That’s quite a statement, especially considering Hustler‘s longstanding reputation for its willingness to push the envelope by showing increasingly offensive and degrading forms of the bane that is pornography.
But hyperbole aside, this labeling merits a closer look: Are graphic abortion pictures, as Edwards says, not only comparable to pornography, but actually worse? [Continue reading ...]
We pro-life activists are often criticized for using graphic abortion pictures in the course of our effort to change the hearts of our fellow citizens on abortion. We’re told that these images are “too disturbing” and that there must be “some other way” to get our point across.
But again and again, the power of graphic images is made manifest—not only through our own experience of how abortion pictures save babies from abortion out on the street, but across a whole host of other issues. [Continue reading ...]
During the League’s Face the Truth Tour yesterday in Evanston, Illinois, I took a few moments to offer a suggestion on how to respond when people object to this particular pro-life campaign. My assistant Matt shot this footage and edited the video.
![Which of these pictures do you find disgusting? [Photo by Dan Gura]](http://prolifeaction.org/pix/2010/disgusting.jpg "disgusting1")
Which of these pictures do you find disgusting? [Photo by Dan Gura]
It happened again this week. Someone pulled up to a small group of pro-lifers who were holding signs along a busy street to yell at them.
He rolled down his window and said,
I have some “free speech” for you. I don’t have an opinion on abortion either way. But I have children. And those horrible pictures are disgusting! My kids would be so upset by them. You shouldn’t be out here. (etc, etc, etc)
My dad, holding a picture of Jesus asked, “You think Jesus is disgusting?”
I turned my picture so it would be facing him, since he was pointing my direction. In disbelief I asked, “This? This is a picture of a baby!” Another woman piped up, “Why would a child be scared of a baby picture?” [Continue reading ...]