I
am asked many questions every day: professors, family, friends, people who
disagree with me, people who agree with me but want to know more. Allow me to
pose a question of my own.
Why
is it that we allow abortion to occur, but don’t want to see the results of it?
Created
Equal came to NKU’s campus, and it was abuzz before we had ever set up. People are disgusted by us, by what we
do, by what we show them. They believe they, at the expense of first amendment
rights, can censor what comes to THEIR campus.
There
are two types of these people: pro-choice and pro-life. Let me define terms. If
you are against abortion in all circumstances, you are pro-life. Otherwise, you
are pro-choice. Let me first address those who are pro-choice.
Why
is it wrong to have photos of abortion on YOUR campus, but okay for the
practice that creates those photos to go down in your community and all over
the country, times 3,300? To say that is to commit a most hypocritical fallacy.
If there is nothing wrong with abortion, then why is there something wrong with
the photos of it? It is just a “parasite”, a “blob of tissue”- not a human, or
at least not a valuable one. You should have no problem with photos of it. In
fact, they just show OUR campus what you support, and how humane and painless
it is.
Obviously,
that is not the case. You don’t want the pictures here. Perhaps you are afraid
they expose many people who had no idea to the barbarity of the practice you
support. Perhaps you are trying to ignore your conscience that tells you this
is wrong, but that’s going to be much tougher to do with images of victims
burned into your mind. Perhaps you want the ability to kill people, but don’t
want to deal with the mess. I’m not sure, but I’d be interested to hear the
reasoning behind such a position.
“But
there could be children that see it.” How prevalent are children on YOUR
campus? There aren’t that many, especially in the middle of everything. The
target is not children, nor is it just women that we are forcing ourselves on
(actually said). The target is adults- faculty, staff, and college students who
can’t ignore what they are seeing. Many have dodged it for a while, but they
are now being exposed and offered the opportunity to make a choice. Will there
be some children that see it? Probably. Which is worse: children seeing
abortion, or children being aborted? And what is so bad if abortion is
perfectly acceptable?
A
guy in passing yesterday summed it up well: “I’m just want to say, not for or
against, but I really respect what you all are doing out here. It is a perfect
example of exercising your First Amendment rights. Displays like this must be
controversial, but you all are using your freedom of speech perfectly.” You’re
telling me we shouldn’t use victim imagery? You’re using your free speech
rights to tell me mine should be limited. Where is the logic in that?
Pro-life
people against what we do are also an obstacle. I used to be where they were.
Then I saw the effectiveness. Victim imagery works; we’ve seen it. Don’t tell
me you can get the message across without images. Any murder trial will use
pictures of the murder, so everyone there can see what has happened. It would
not have the same affect if we left out the images and details of the crime.
There wouldn’t be a case. You say abortion is wrong, but you need to show them
abortion is wrong. Debate all day, it may mean nothing without them seeing it.
Force
pro-choice people to defend what they support. Ask them if they support
abortion while pointing to a dismembered fetus. See what their response is.
They don’t want to know; they won’t seek out the truth on their own. We have to
bring it to them.
Would
the Holocaust Museum be the same without seeing the victims? Do you support people
having to see the effects of drugs, tobacco, alcohol or STDs to prevent them
from making bad choices? How about the victims of other genocides? Tell a child
who has been brutally beaten to go away and let you tell their story for them.
It’s not the same; it’s not fair. Let their injuries tell the story. Why is
abortion any different? Let the victims tell their stories. Allow them to have
the voice they never had. You are not protecting the unborn by telling someone
life begins at fertilization. They want proof. Give it to them.
The
double-standards would amaze me if I didn’t expect them. You believe in
tolerance, yet won’t tolerate an opposing view? You cling to free speech, then
try to stifle anyone that would dare to effectively disagree. You are disgusted
by images, then get angry at the people who dare to show them on YOUR campus,
rather than at the practice that creates them.
If
this didn’t work, we wouldn’t do it. Stay ignorant of the subject if you wish.
But knowing 1.2 million innocent people are legally killed in a multi-million
dollar industry in MY country makes me uneasy. So I’m doing something about it.
Continue to pursue your own passions. But at least give me a logical, unselfish
reason why we shouldn’t mobilize to protect others.
Please,
give me a reason. I think you’ll have trouble coming up with one.
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