Why are people so disturbed by pictures of the results of an abortion?

Question

What is worse, the actual thing someone is showing you? or the messanger?

Sadly, I think people find the messanger worse than the dead bloody "thing", the person who took the photograph, the person who killed it and the person who had it killed.

In which case, you are confused.

It's such a great choice, why not show all the results of what abortion leaves behind as evidence and celebrate it?


And save your bullsh*t because I'm an atheist.

And also, I want to point out that "Mr. Fetus"' picture was taken of a fetus past the time it was able to feel pain.

So basically, it was able to feel pain and in cold blood dismembered and pulled violently from his/her mother's womb.

the wierd guy: though that is true, and I am generally not against abortion if it is within the 8th week gestation,

tens of thousands!!!! of abortions are performed after the first trimester and thousands are performed late term.

It's pretty sick to think that tHOUsands of abortions are performed after 20 weeks, when it is scientifically fact they feel pain after which time.
1 is too many, never mind tens of thousands, and do you know how they are aborted?
it is beyond cruel and ruthless.

the dude: that argument is bunk. Yes. I've seen actual surgical procedures, watched, without even flinching. I have no problem with that. That is not the issue, it is a procedure where the blood is coming from dismembering an actual living being in order to kill it which I have a problem with.

Answer 1

They are disturbed because the truth hurts. They use euphemisms like "choice," but the photographic evidence shows something different--dead babies.

These photos and video show early first trimester abortions, beginning at 7 weeks:

http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html

and there is evidence that unborn children can feel pain beginning in the first trimester:

http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html

Thanks, Jane, for your logic.

Answer 2

First I will say a huge misconception is the "fetus" does not feel pain. That is false. When abortions were commonly done by saline injection, they would inject the mothers womb with saline, this would basically burn the "fetus" and it would move violently away (many women had emotional issues and nightmares to attest to this) and then they would literally bare this dead, burned alive "fetus".

Second the pictures need to be out there, people need to see that if my cousin can survive 5 months gestation that "thing" can survive that was dicarded in the trash.

Third, what is your position?

Fourth, what are pro choicers going to say when technology is able to keep a "fetus" alive in the first trimester? They already can in the second, and well the third you should be called a murderer or blind. Are they going to change the rules and say now abortion IS killing BABIES?

The whole problem with this debate is all this is a moot point. Scientists can believe and teach as fact that we came from apes, they can use stem cell research to cure diseases, they can do incredible things playing God, but they can't determine when life begins?

I as a prolifer, would be more than happy if they banned abortions after 8 weeks gestation b/c brain waves are detected at that time and a scientists determine thats when life begins. I might still think its not enough but . . . . .

Life doen't begin according to your circumstance.

If Beethovens mother felt that all hope was lost b/c all her kids were blind, with some dipilitating disease and by the 9th kid said . . . . abortion I can't go through that again, we would be missing out!!!!!!!!!

God Bless

Answer 3

Oh, well okay, cool - now i get it, you're an atheist. Why in the world does that have anything to do with whether or not a person is disturbed by seeing the dead mangled remains of a baby??
Did I miss something?
And exactly what bull are you referring to? This is a question about a picture, correct? Why do you feel the need to inject something about "bull--" and being atheist?
Sounds like you have more questions to ask than you actually are asking. Look, if you feel the mangled remains are a reason to celebrate, and if you feel your life is without bull-- because you are an atheist, then hey - no problem. God wants you to have that choice, and sounds like you made it. What does a smart, with-it, on-the-ball person like you need with God anyway?
You sound like you've got all the answers - excuse the rest of us, we are just so much less learned than you - perhaps you'll bear with us.
This flesh life is for weeding out. I'm a Christian and you will never catch me begging and pleading with you to save your own butt - not a chance. We don't want to repeat this nonsense in the eternity, and we will not be. You go ahead and live it up -
Get off on all the bloody pictures you want - have your fill -
you gotta sail your own ship, and if it sinks, its your choice.
Have a blast --

Answer 4

Most likely because people are given the freedom to think. And every person grows up with a different moral background. You just pointed out that you don't believe in anything beyond life. That is a result of your background. So because as a child you were reared differently it shows in your lack of remorse.

Your question groups people incorrectly. Not everyone is disturbed by these photos. You've made that clear. You should have stated why do disturbing pictures affect people so differently?

My thought who cares if people are disturbed and quite frankly who cares what goes on in a clinic....that is where the issues with abortion or any other subject begin. People place there nose where it shouldn't be and try to force their garbage on others.

Hope this helps. Take care.

Answer 5

I'm disturbed because I see a dead baby.....how is that not disturbing? its too sad. i dont think the messenger is worse than the one who had the abortion. i am not for abortion but i understand that under certain circumstances (such as rape) people who do get an abortion are not criminals. i may not agree with them but i can understand them when they have no choice. the picture of the fetus on the avatar however is of a baby that is too far in the development phase. its cruel.

Answer 6

People are confused. They say the war is Iraq is the greatest thing since pants wit' pockets, but they won't show the bodies of the dead soldiers. Yet they have no problem showing little Iraqi kids that have been blown the pieces.
I agree with you though, if you support abortion the picture should not bother you in the least.

Answer 7

They feel guilty for condoning abortion. I am against abortion 100%. I am disturbed when I see those pictures because I know that an innocent baby was murdered and it could have been prevented.

Edit:

angk: Not true about those abortions not being legal anymore. Partial birth abortions are not legal, but a woman can get an abortion up until she gives birth. It's a FACT. Look it up!

Answer 8

What the weird guy stated is correct, a LEGAL abortion is only performed up to 3 months. Later gestational abortions can only LEGALLY be performed for strict medical reasons.

Answer 9

They are disturbing because they are gross. I find photos of legs with gangrene disgusting as well as photos of abscesses on a junkies arm from shooting up. It's good to know what the nasty result is if you chose to make a certain decision in your life but I've seen the photos before. I become offended by people who repeatedly shove disturbing images in my face no matter what their reasoning is. Personally, I do not need to be shown what an aborted fetus looks like because I've seen the pictures before. I understand that some people may actually not know what one looks like and it's 'educational' but I do get a bit angry that I'm forced to see these images over and over. I think of it as visual harassment.

Answer 10

It is not the mssg. so much as it is the messanger.
Stupid in the way he posed his question.
People need to see images of viable infant life in the womb, with a visible, beating heart after just 21 days into gestation.
If a woman goes to a clinic and sees her own baby in-vitro via sonogram or scope, there is an 85% chance that she will not abort.
That is what people need to see. NOT mutilated fetuses.