Because I cannot remain silent.

[olde_fashioned]

I stumbled across this video quite by accident, but after watching it, I just couldn't not post it here. To be honest, I think I would have felt guilty if I did not.

If evil triumphs because good men do nothing, and ignorance the root and the stem of every evil, then perhaps I will have done some good by speaking out against this horrific atrocity.

Watch the video, and look at the pictures.


Warning: The video isn't graphic, but the pictures that I've linked to below, are, quite frankly, horrific. This isn't CSI we're talking about, with fake dead bodies, these are real human beings. Dead babies that have been murdered. Living souls that have been snuffed out like so many candles. Tiny hands that will never grasp, little hearts that will never beat again.

Unless you're prone to squeamishness, I strongly advise looking at the images, but also taking care while you do so. They are not pretty. They're sobering, they're shocking, and they're thought-provoking. I know it's not fun to look at dead babies, but I think we need to see this.

I do know that a lot of people don't believe that abortion is murder, because a fetus isn't a baby, right? It's not a human being, it's a "fish" or some other such entity. Right? Well, you take a good look at these pictures, and then you tell me what abortion is.

This is what "a woman's right to choose" is. And this, and this, and this. This baby was beheaded.


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*sits back and waits for the firing squad*

Comments

[madame-faust.livejournal.com]

I was clarifying her statement. It was made specifically in reference to children born to poor families living in America in the early half of the twentieth century. Let me assure you, people living in that kind of poverty were not going to rise out of it without some kind of intervention and it was this intervention that Margaret Sanger hoped to provide by making available contraceptive measures to prevent pregnancy before it happened so that a family that already had more children than they could afford or adequately care for would not have more. Sanger grew up in turn of the century America, she saw first hand the amount of suffering among the poor, the factory workers and especially the children who were dying in great numbers from disease or neglect. She was specifically not advocating abortion, it was horrifying to her the thought that children would die and were dying from parental abandonment and neglect or illnesses born of life in tenements where rats, mold and disease festered. Abortion was already in practice during her lifetime and before, she thought that by making effective contraceptives available to people, it would cut down the number of unwanted or unwise pregnancies. She sought to limit the number of abortions through use of contraceptives.

Edited due to misunderstanding.