A distasteful reality
When I was in seminary, I briefly worked in the mail room. A mailing arrived from a pro-life group featuring lurid and bloody pictures of aborted fetuses and parts thereof.
"Well," a pro-choice classmate said, "so much for reasoned discussion!"
I didn't have time to point out that until we confront the fact that what those pictures portrayed is what abortion is, reasoned discussion is on the topic isn't possible.
Apparently former President George W. Bush was moved to his pro-life position by his mother, Barbara, showing him the fetus of a miscarried sibiling.
Disgusting? Perhaps. But grounds for coming to grips in a way that many Americans refuse to with just what that nice, clean, sanitary word "abortion" actually means.
"Well," a pro-choice classmate said, "so much for reasoned discussion!"
I didn't have time to point out that until we confront the fact that what those pictures portrayed is what abortion is, reasoned discussion is on the topic isn't possible.
Apparently former President George W. Bush was moved to his pro-life position by his mother, Barbara, showing him the fetus of a miscarried sibiling.
Disgusting? Perhaps. But grounds for coming to grips in a way that many Americans refuse to with just what that nice, clean, sanitary word "abortion" actually means.
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