Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Are you going to the March for Life on Friday, either in DC or in your state?  If so, are you planning to display graphic photos or videos of aborted babies? 

If you are, I'm begging you to reconsider.  Fr. Pavone
famously said, "America will not reject abortion until America sees
abortion."  Most pro-lifers understand that Americans are tragically
ignorant about what abortion really is — what it really does to real
babies.  Many of us remember seeing those bloody images for the first
time, and can recall being shaken out of a vague, fuzzy support for the
pro-life cause into the realization that this is a life-and-death
struggle — real life, and real death.

But a  public place is not the place to use these images — ever, I'm
convinced.  These images are like a terrible weapon which should be used
with fear and trembling, and only as a last resort.  Why?

There will be children at the march.  Do you let your
kids watch gruesome war movies or slasher films?  No?  Well, those
movies show actors with fake blood, pretending to be tortured and
killed.  Why would you let them see the real thing?  The pro-life cause
is about protecting innocent life, and that includes protecting the
innocence of young children.  Studies show that violent images stay with
us for a lifetime, and damage us.