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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
I try to stay out of the abortion issue altogether. Mostly I think that it has just become a smokescreen for political parties and contestants who are in trouble dealing with current issues on the political horizon.
Have to comment on the dimwit who is the leader of the Social Credit party of Alberta, Len Skowronski, who wrote into the Calgary Herald 'letters' column today.
"***** is complaining that a postcard delivered to his house upset his young son because it displayed a bloody aborted fetus. While consoling his son, he should have taken advantage of this teaching moment. He could have explained the purpose of the postcard and the awful picture in a dialogue, including the following: 'This is a baby who wasn't wanted by its mommy so she chose to have the baby pulled from her tummy and killed. The person who delivered this to our house wanted to remind me that this was happening. I am angry and will work to stop the killing of babies. I will choose people to be in our government who will make this against the law. I hope that before you grow up, mommies will stop killing their babies in Canada.'" - Len Skowronski, leader of SCP of Alberta.
There is so much wrong, on so many levels with this comment, and the mentality that would recognize that this is an appropriate response. Instead of going into a long rant about them, I'll just put out there that showing pictures of mayhem and gore to very small children and then using needling and cartoonish language to indoctrinate them is probably not an adult way of raising a child.
And exposing children to these images is wrong. (I don't even appreciate the use of shock value in any political advertisement, and I'm considerably taller.)
The writer of this quote is running for public office. And I don't think anyone who has opinions such as this one should be allowed near small children. Can you imagine him leaning down and giving that speech to a five year old while waving around a picture of an aborted fetus?
If he wanted to take someone who didn't really have an opinion on this issue, and make them identify as pro-choice, then it's brilliant.
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While I am pro-choice I am with the dimwit, as I stated earlier in thread. Use it as a teaching moment. What you want to teach your kid is up to you. It could be that you need to be vigilent against senationized advertising designed to rile people up, It could be that the rights of individuals need to be protected, it doesn't have to be even about abortion.
The alternative is taking away someones rights to free speech. And unless its inciting hate which I don't think this crosses the line I am for it.
On a general note why are people so disgusted by the imagery? It is an accurate representation of what is happening. To me this is along the lines of people who don't want to know what the conditions are like in a feed lot or a meat packing plant. If you aren't comfortable with the consequences of the choices we make maybe people should revisit their stance on the issue. If you aren't comfortable knowing how a cow gets shot in the back of the head with a bolt gun maybe you shouldn't be eating meat.
Too much of the impacts we create as a society are hidden from us because it is disturbing.