A response to the reason to use graphic abortion images
A response to the reason to use graphic abortion images
I gave this response to a father who was concerned that his children saw pictures of aborted babies.
Dear Mr.--------,
I appreciate your concern over graphic images being viewed by your children. In the past when my children were younger I had the same reaction. As time has gone on though, I believe it is better and more Christlike to be outraged at what is occurring in the pictures. It is an excellent time to put in your child's mind that a horrible thing is occurring in America: rampant, indiscriminate child-killing.
The civil rights movement was started with a graphic photo. Emmett Till was a 15 year old African-American boy who was lynched and beaten in the face which caused him to be severely disfigured. His mother made the painful decision to let Jet magazine (
http://www.wehaitians.com/how photos became icon of civil rights movement.html) put his open casket picture in their magazine. It sparked outrage. It let people know that blacks felt pain, died and bled the same as whites. It made blacks start to be seen as humans not property or inferior race or subhuman.
From the website defending the use of graphic images:
http://www.ams.ubc.ca/clubs/lifeline/why.html, Dr King responded to the use of graphic images. Some people may object to these graphic images for fear of pro-lifers being labeled "extremists." Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" addresses this issue: "But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.' Was not Amos an extremist of justice: 'Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.' Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: 'I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.' Was not Martin Luther an extremist: 'Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God.' And John Bunyan: 'I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.' And Abraham Lincoln: 'This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.' And Thomas Jefferson: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...' So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."
Seeing pictures of aborted fetuses does a justice that words cannot do. Abortion happens in a sterile environment that no one sees. The Bible tells us to bring things done in the dark into the light, only in the light can we see the truth and correct the horrors that are done under the cover of darkness. Other reasons to use pictures include: the fact that our culture thinks and learns visually, the horror of atrocities cannot be summed up in words alone, graphic pictures shift the debate from a slogan of "choice" to the reality of death and images stay with people.
The newspapers put pictures of a dead soldiers, terrorists and unfortunately dead children on the cover of the paper.Our President, Brian Rohrbough found out his son was killed at Columbine by seeing his son's dead body on the sidewalk outside the school.
Life is full of atrocities that humans commit against each other and themselves. This is a fallen world. I would hope to see you more involved as the church is silent in this fight against murdering the innocent, just as it was against the Holocaust and slavery. Only the brave few fought against those human atrocities.
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www.coloradorighttolife.org and sign the petition to prevent tax payer dollars to fund Planned Murderhood and sign the commitment to uphold God's enduring command, the oldest precedent, Thou Shalt Not Murder.