Anti-abortionists using images of dead fetuses.

Marc wrote:I think it's a crass, desperate scare tactic....

Supernova wrote:And I don't get how, if there's nothing wrong with it, seeing the results of their decision is a bad thing. Now there are some people who compare unborn babies to parasites and tumors so good riddance ( ), well would you be opposed to seeing your tumor once it's removed and knowing the threat was gone?

MandyPerfumeGirl wrote:This is ridiculous. Anti-abortionists - as hard as it may be - need to respect other people's opinions and choices in their life. They really need to mind their own business. Abortion is legal in most states and after that it's the woman choice. Just typical anti-abortionists trying to get everybody to think like them.

Marc™ wrote:I think it's a crass, desperate scare tactic....one that I doubt has any significant effect of people's decision to go ahead with the procedure. I also doubt the fetuses used in those pictures were even aborted. Probably late miscarriages/still births.

Misrepresentation A considerable number of anti-abortion visuals feature an almost fully developed fetus. Abortions preformed at this stage via hysterotomy or D&X abortions are rare. Only about 1.5% of abortions are performed at 21-weeks or older, according to according to a 2000 study conducted by the Nation Center for Chronic Disease (CDC). A July 1992 LIFE magazine article, The Great Divide, reported that Reverend Robert Schenk, member of anti-choice coalition Operation rescue, attended a demonstration outside an abortion clinic in Buffalo, NY, with "Baby Tia", a 7-inch, gray-tinted and formaldehyde-soaked dead fetus. In the escalating madness of the crowd, the fetus was dropped onto the sneaker-trodden street. Authorities arrested Schenk and confiscated the fetus, which was taken to a coroner, only to be identified as an approximately 20-week-old stillborn. The article reads, "Many pro-choice supporters in Buffalo are angry about the distance between their reality-what they see in the clinics-and the images the anti-abortionists present as fact. 'What they are showing to the public is a lie,' says Joni Ladowski, a nurse at a nearby clinic, as she unfolds a length of gauze. In the center lies what appears to be a clot the size of a peanut. It is a fetus, nine weeks old. 'This is an abortion,' she says."

Nhaiyel wrote:

Marc wrote:I think it's a crass, desperate scare tactic....one that I doubt has any significant effect of people's decision to go ahead with the procedure. I also doubt the fetuses used in those pictures were even aborted. Probably late miscarriages/still births.

Misrepresentation A considerable number of anti-abortion visuals feature an almost fully developed fetus. Abortions preformed at this stage via hysterotomy or D&X abortions are rare. Only about 1.5% of abortions are performed at 21-weeks or older, according to according to a 2000 study conducted by the Nation Center for Chronic Disease (CDC). A July 1992 LIFE magazine article, The Great Divide, reported that Reverend Robert Schenk, member of anti-choice coalition Operation rescue, attended a demonstration outside an abortion clinic in Buffalo, NY, with "Baby Tia", a 7-inch, gray-tinted and formaldehyde-soaked dead fetus. In the escalating madness of the crowd, the fetus was dropped onto the sneaker-trodden street. Authorities arrested Schenk and confiscated the fetus, which was taken to a coroner, only to be identified as an approximately 20-week-old stillborn. The article reads, "Many pro-choice supporters in Buffalo are angry about the distance between their reality-what they see in the clinics-and the images the anti-abortionists present as fact. 'What they are showing to the public is a lie,' says Joni Ladowski, a nurse at a nearby clinic, as she unfolds a length of gauze. In the center lies what appears to be a clot the size of a peanut. It is a fetus, nine weeks old. 'This is an abortion,' she says."

The Truth About Anti-abortion Pictures of Alleged Aborted Fetuses

DanaShelbyChancey wrote:Abortion is killing something that would grow into a viable baby, but there are plenty of instances where killing is legal.

Marc™ wrote:I think it's a crass, desperate scare tactic....one that I doubt has any significant effect of people's decision to go ahead with the procedure. I also doubt the fetuses used in those pictures were even aborted. Probably late miscarriages/still births.