People from the anti-choice group Face the Truth came to Hagerstown yesterday and terrorized people with giant scary abortion photos. Hagerstown is only one stop on their 15 city terror tour. Who knows, maybe they will make a stop in your city too.
My biggest problem with groups like this is that they take photos from a medical procedure and blow them up to 100 times the actual size to make them look like something they are not. They then wave these giant posters in your face and demand (demand!) you look at them.
It doesn’t matter who you are.
It doesn’t matter how old you are.
It doesn’t matter how young you are.
They will force you to look at their ghastly pictures.
It’s as though their right to make you look at ginned up photos is more important than your right not to see the photos.
Some members of Face the Truth even dragged their young children to the event and made them hold signs denouncing a woman’s right to choose.
The members of Face the Truth and other similar anti-choice groups want you to think that a fetus is the same thing as a human baby. The reality is that the two are not the same. Just because a gigantic posterized photo of a fetus might look like a human baby doesn’t make it an actual human baby. Have you ever seen a pig fetus? They too kind of look like a human baby. The same thing applies to a monkey fetus. They look remarkably similar to a human fetus.
That doesn’t mean they are human, even if they look like they are human. Looks can be deceiving.
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I’ve seen these guys in town before. They’re incredibly obnoxious, but my biggest problem with them is a purely practical one: what purpose do these overwrought scary-picture protests serve?
I know they say they’re protesting abortion, getting their Pro Life position out there and everything, but I seriously doubt anyone has changed their opinion on abortion because they had a disgusting photograph of an aborted fetus shoved in their face.
This is why the debate over legalized abortion is still such a volatile issue in this country, because we don’t actually talk about it. We scream slogans at one another, and use euphemisms like “Pro Life” and “Pro Choice” so that we can argue over the issue without ever directly addressing it.
“Abortion is murder!”
“No it’s not!”
That’s the sophisticated discourse we have over this difficult issue.