Emily, over at After Abortion, mentions an advertising campaign to discourage smoking through portraying the regrets of former smokers, and compares it to similar attempts to portray the regrets of those who had abortions.
That reminded me of how anti-tobacco activists are trying to put gross pictures of the effects of tobacco on tobacco packaging. I remember at my previous church (that political one), which was very active in anti-tobacco politics, they had a picture of a woman with half her body showing what her internal organs looked like after smoking. Not obscene, just very gross and disgusting. Yeah, that'll make me want to not ever smoke. Pretty effective.
One little problem, though. These same people are also trying stop similar pictures of abortions from ever being shown at abortion clinics or at political rallys. Abortion brownshirts, as Mark Shea might say. They say it's gross and disgusting. Yeah, that's the point. Make people confront what they are doing, just like we're doing for tobacco, just that pro-life people are more consistent in their values, and not trying to protect a killing industry, whether it be tobacco or abortion.
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