I am SO mad - (Kinda racy beware)

MyBabeMaddie wrote: **Abortion mentioned***


Don't get me wrong here, I admit I am Pro Choice, and I agree with the Constitutional right to protest or whatever it is but.......

I don't know if people do this around your house or not but, around the mall by my house there are always Pro-Life petitioners. There is not an abortion clinic anywhere near here so I don't know why they choose this spot all the time. There are about 10-12 protesters with 6 foot tall posters of 3rd trimester abortions. Graphic pictures of aborted fetuses, plain as day in your face six feet tall. If you protest abortion fine thats your opinion, your right, but is it necessary to include GRAPHIC pictures of babies? Here's where my big problem is. I got stopped at a red light RIGHT smack dab next to a poster of a dead baby. Madison starts saying "Baby, baby baby baby, Mommy baby!" MY TWO YEAR OLD DOES NOT NEED TO SEE DEAD BLOODY BABIES. I was going to Boston Market for dinner and there was a protester on the sidewalk outside with another graphic poster. Before I got Madison out of the car, i said to him "Would you like to explain to my 2 year old why she sees pictures of dead babies? That is inappropriate." He turns to me and says "Not my problem". WTH! Put your signs up, say whatever you want but DON'T show PICTURES! ( You can see these pictures plain as day 2 blocks away that is how big they are and theres like 10 of them).

Cece00 replied: I'm fine with people protesting too (although I think abortion should remain legal) but yeah, thats inappropriate.

Too bad the cops cant arrest them & charge them with SOMETHING for the graphic pictures. You can make the point without those, its all just scare tactics & intimidation & graphic information with some of those people and children could VERY easily see that (as yours did) and I dont think that should be allowed in public where children can see. You cant be NAKED in public, why can you show pictures of torn apart babies? I'd rather see someone naked over aborted fetuses.

Calimama replied: That's SICK!

Sam & Abby's Mom replied: yah -- that's totally not right!

PrairieMom replied: I had the same problem last year. only the people here were driving around in huge semi trucks with the pictures on them, so sitting at a red light, there you are, right next to a 6 foot picture of a aborted baby. I didn't know what to tell Ben either.
I just don't see the point in the pictures. I mean, really, people believe the way they believe, and I don't think that those posters are really going to change peoples minds, all it does is annoy the "pro-lifers"

Insanemomof3 replied: Ok, gonna admit something...flame me ALL you want but I had 2 abortions. I had to or I was going to die. I had infections in my uterus that was killing me....that being said....

I HATE the protesters. They protest but do NOT know every woman's situation about abortions. I did NOT want to get mine done, but had no choice. The day I went in for my second one, I had a protester come up to me and start screaming at me about what a murderer I was and called me a whore. I was not impressed...then AFTER the procedure I had to ride by the protesters with those signs with graphic pics. I was devastated. I STILL have nightmares about that. All I can see in my dreams are those pics and hear a baby crying. God it makes me just livid what people do.

A&A'smommy replied: OKAY I will NOT say my opinion on abortion BUT I agree that the graphic pictures is WAY too much no child needs to see that!!!

redchief replied: That's freedom of speech for you. Is it really any different than Newsweek showing pictures of dead children in Afghanistan and Iraq? I suppose the argument could be made that you actually have to look at the magazine to see the pictures. We had similar experiences with Pro-Life protesters when our kids were growing up. It was difficult to explain, as the truth often is, but we managed. We just told them that some people believe that it's OK to to take a baby out of it's mother before it's born because they have decided they can't have the baby for their own reasons. Those people want them to make it against the law again for people to do that.

Yes, our children asked why it was allowed, and we just told them that even though our
God believes that all human life is sacred, some people don't believe that babies that aren't born yet are human children. Three of the four kids said that was a stupid way to think. I had no argument for that, especially since they were right. Is it too much for a child to see? A lot of what our children will behold in their lifetimes would fall into this category in my opinion. It's a shame that we can't make all of those images fade into the history books, but as long as we're human and bent on killing ourselves and each other, I'm afraid we're going to have to find ways to deal with such images.

Mommy2BAK replied: eek I would not want to subject my children to that either, I see your point!

punkeemunkee'smom replied: While I absolutely agree that those pictures are disgusting,disturbing, and horrible to anyone especially a child. As a mom it irks me to no end when I have seen those protestors. I have not explained murder to my child yet which is the reason I don't allow her to watch the news, I certainly do not want her to be exposed to pictures of dismembered children on the way into Chili's. But I do ask Does it not make you stop and take a moment to see..... does it not make you pause for just a second to really see the victims of abortion? To honor that lost life or to wonder what that person would have been or become or contributed to this world? There in that horrible and sad picture could have been the cure to cancer, a great world leader OR just someone who would have touched your or mine life in some special way....maybe something as simple as an offered smile on a rough day. I know the pictures are horrific...but I understand the intent.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: There is an abortion clinic in my downtown area. It is above a McDonald's, on one of the busiest streets in the core, Bank Street. There are protestors there all the time, but I have yet to see any pictures. That's disgusting...sorry that Maddie had to witness that.

PrairieMom replied:
actully, those pictures don't make me wonder or think that way. In MY mind they acutally take the horrors of the act and flip them around to reflect badly on the person holding the sign.
Those poor babies are being exploited by those protesters, and really where did they get the pictures from? Its not like they are working in the clinic to have access to that kind of "photographic material"





I want to add, this is a very touchy subject... please lets all be sensitive to each other and play nice.

Kirstenmumof3 replied:
I'm so sorry you had to go through that! That's horrible!

I too am offended when I see that kind of stuff on the news, the protest never happen here! I believe in pro choice and not everyone knows the womans situation. That's an awful thing to have to see on the news I couldn't imagine seeing the protesters in person.

lisar replied: I think people can protest whatever they want to, however if my 7 year old was to see those signs there would be 20 million questions about it. And she is old enough to read now she would read them and just make her more curious.
They can protest it all they want I think they just need to do it with a little more class in it.

TheOaf66 replied: I agree the pictures definitely take it way to far.

cameragirl21 replied: TBH, my biggest problem with this is that while this protester claims to be doing this to save children's lives, he showed total disregard for the well being of a 2 year old child (Madison) who is already out of utero. While I am pro choice, I personally would never have an abortion unless it was medically necessary but I'm a big proponent of free speech. However, I have a big problem with pro lifers showing total lack of compassion for existing children while only caring about those in utero. You should have asked that protester how many unwanted orphans he adopted.
Btw, the above question (why pro lifers seem only to care about babies in utero) was meant to be rhetorical and I don't expect it to be answered but if anyone wants to express their side of it, please express it to me privately via pm so as not to start a debate here unless that discussion can be had in a civilized fashion on all sides, myself included.

Crystalina replied: I think people should be allowed to protest until they are blue in the face but pictures like that are not necessary. If you want to have an abortion then have one. If you don't then don't. Children should not have to see that and neither should the general public who may never get pg or have an abortion or anyone. It's just tastless and rude. We never have anything around here like that but I would hate for my kids to have to see that. I hated the fact that they had to see roadkill before let alone an aborted baby.

My2Beauties replied: Nomatter what my stance on abortion is, those pictures are classless and too much IMO, no one wants to see that especially children and I would have a very hard time explaining that to my child.

MyBabeMaddie replied:
Thank you, that's my point exactly.

HuskerMom replied: My kids aren't old enough to understand it or even ask questions about it but I wouldn't even want them seeing that! Sorry Maddie had to see it!

jcc64 replied:

Ita! Or how many social programs to support all of these children he's willing to pay for???