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Originally Posted by Russic
Hanging Jews, hacked up African kids ... you know ... standard pro-life protest images. I don't really have a problem with the showing of fetuses, but I do have a problem when they show unrelated graphic imagery just to get attention.
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Ah, that clarifies things considerably. If that is the case, then what pro-lifers are doing is reprehensible. It is a shameless tactic to drum up support for their movement via the most effective method: the appeal to one's emotional sensitivities. In this, pro-lifers are being disingenuous:
If abortion is indeed as horrible a crime as they suggest, then they should argue against it on its own demerits. My problem in all of this is the exaggeration that they feel they need to resort to in order to be heard.
I personally find abortion to be tragic and horrible. But there are a lot of horrible things in this world that are not the same as genocide and mass murder.