From an article by pro-abortion activist Jason Deparle:
“In 1985 the North Carolina Independent, a biweekly alternative paper with a history of support for left liberal and feminist causes, put a fetus on the front page, labeled with the blandest caption: “Controversial, magnified images like this one… are credited with winning converts to the antiabortion camp.”
“The phone calls and letters poured in,” said Katherine Fulton, the paper’s editor. “It was perceived as antifeminist.” The graphic seemed like “the other side image. We didn’t coach it enough.”
From the same article:
In 1985 [The Progressive] ran an advertisement from a group called Feminists for Life [it] pictured an embryo at eight weeks. The Funding Exchange, a New York philanthropy that had supported the magazine, wrote to say that it was “greatly offended” was canceling its subscription, and would henceforth “find it difficult for our staff to lobby for funding for your publication.” Michael Ratner, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a civil liberties group, weighed in as well:
“Happily I am not a subscriber so I needn’t cancel my subscription,” he wrote, “I would surely do so after seeing this antiabortion ad.”
Jason Deparle “Beyond the Legal Right: Why Liberals and Feminists Don’t like to Talk about the Morality of Abortion” Washington Monthly, April 1989
Deparle goes on to say:
Share on Facebook“It’s not surprising that the defenders of abortion don’t like pictures of fetuses; General Westmoreland didn’t like the cameras in Vietnam either. Fetuses aren’t babies, and the photos don’t end the discussion. But they make it a more sober one, as it should be.”