1.Abortion pictures on trucks - OH no! sheild my virgin eyes!!! Puhleeze, I see roadkill, thats MORE traumatic than a picure of ANYTHING.
2.Any woman who uses abortion as a means of birth control should be taken out and sterilized. Its disgusting.
3.Abortion can NOT be an easy choice, a quick fix, it is the last resort for most women, and they shouldnt be made to feel like a monster for needing one.
PLEASE do not compare getting cancer treatment to getting an abortion. Pregnancy is 100 percent preventable with abstinance. Cancer sadly is NOT.
Right. Because everyone who is pro-choice (what the hell is a “proponent of abortion”? are there really a lot of people running around encouraging people to have more abortions?) is a drooling moron who has no concept of things like context, or appropriate times and places.
Which is why I’m going to encourage Hustler magazine to have their distributors enlarge the contents of next month’s “Beaver Hunt” feature to 10’ x 10’ and put them on the sides of their trucks. Hey, pornography is legal, so all you folks who have no problems with these abortion trucks should have no problem with that, right?
Personal to Stella: Don’t be goaded by certain jackasses into answering questions that are none of their business just so that they can put their feet up smugly and feel morally superior to you.
Whatever… I’m not going to beat up on you. Suffice to say, I think abortion is evil. My only hope is that you (and perhaps others) have learned something… God knows I’ve learned from my f*ckups. If not, oh well.
it really has nothing to do with the 1st amendment. it’s illegal to scream “fire!” in a theatre because people could get hurt. there are also laws protecting children from pornography and graphic violence in movies.
btw, i am pro-life. does that somehow make it more acceptable that i don’t want to see these images? that i don’t want my three-year-old step-daughter and two-year-old step-son to see them? especially if i’m driving. i have purposefully avoided images like that, knowing full well that it would likely send me into a panic attack. i have a severe problem with anything that involves knives, needles, surgery, etc. i was the only person excused from dissection labs in high school. teacher didn’t like having me curled up in the fetal position on a table, hyperventilating and muttering to myself. i shudder to think what would happen if i was surprised by images like that on the high way.
Actually, it has a lot to do with the First Amendment, inasmuch as that is what prevents the government from banning these trucks. Obscenity (not pornography) is not protected by the First Amendment, but bloody abortion pictures undoubtedly are, even if children may see them.
I’m pro-choice, and I think the pictures are icky and in bad taste. But I found the pictures of coathangers that the pro-choicers used to use in their propaganda icky and in bad taste, too. (Anyone know why we haven’t seen as many of those lately?)
Well, to put it a different way, I oppose the death penalty, but that doesn’t mean I want to see a picture of an electrocuted corpse on the side of a truck as I drive down the highway. Yeah, it’s gross, but I’d wager that most people don’t have “Icky gross!” as one of their top reasons to oppose the death penalty.
It’s the same thing with abortion. Is there really anyone out there who doesn’t understand that abortion = killing a fetus? People don’t support the right to abortion just because they are unaware how disgusting a fetus looks post-abortion. They have other reasons.
Personally, I am pro-life, although it is not one of my hot button issues. (I.e., I’ll never vote for someone on the sole basis that they oppose abortion, or whatever.) But I am not pro-life because abortions are gross and disgusting. I am pro-life because fundamentally I believe that a gestating fetus is a human being with an individual right to life. And whether you believe that, as I do, or you believe that a fetus is not yet a human person, as pro-choicers do, seeing a bloodied aborted fetus isn’t really going to change your mind. It’s tacky, pointless, and I wish people would stop doing it.
I am not a “proponent of abortion”. A proponent is someone who advocates something. I do not advocate the idea of women having abortions. I advocate women being allowed to make the decision for themselves. Thermalribbon’s characterization of pro-lifer’s as “embracing abortion as a way of life” and as “life-afirming female-empowering” are just more straw-man arguments. Being in favor of a certain right is different from having graphic displays on the highway where they could affect drivers and be seen by children.
what i’m saying is that i think if they could show that these trucks distract drivers (and i’m sure they do, whether or not they have the kind of severe reaction that i would), and that they pose a safety hazard, they could ban them. first amendment or no, safety comes first.
as for the scaring little kids, i think that’s an issue of them being sick fucks who obviously don’t care as much about children as they claim.
AA, you’re being an idiot. I can stand by the side of any road I want with any sign I want. Where is the constitutional right to “safety”? As PLD allued to, why do YOU care so much about children, anyway?
You might not find it too offensive, but then again, you might not find a KKK Rally on the street in front of your house offensive. Of course, they’re both protected by the first amendment. Ain’t this country great?
I’m starting to think that the people who organized this are really giving a bad name to those who think abortion is a bad idea. Instead of trying to convince people by arguing their point of view, they decide to put up giant fullcolor pictures MADE FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE TO GROSS PEOPLE OUT.
Is this what pro-lifers are thinking of pro-choicers now? Please point me to your source. I have never heard of any woman who sleep in bed with anyone they want, and figure that instead of a condom/the pill, they’ll utilize highly expensive abortion techniques.
I’m a bit confused. This point seems to be saying that the idea of giant posters designed to show abortion as disgusting henious crimes is a bad idea, while up at the top, you say you don’t care.
Uh. Please. Do me a favor. THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE FUCKING SAYING. Here’s a question: What four letter word begins with ‘r’, ends with an ‘e’, and rhymes with ‘tape?’