From her former pro-life activist who now considers herself pro-choice:
“Pro-Lifers have the much stronger rhetorical position, both verbally and visually.… They compare abortion to the Holocaust – a metaphor no one for choice can rival. They have pictures of what they claim are aborted fetuses, fetuses that appear both human and violently damaged. Such pictures appeal to pathos in a way no logical pro-choice argument can hope to…. [There is] no image to rival the visual horror of the aborted fetus; instead there are only sterile, unemotional concepts in which to believe: privacy, choice, legalization. While feminists may feel the rightness of choice, that rightness can’t compare, on an emotional level, to the emotions associated with the implied opposite of pro-life (pro-death) or with the images of bloody fetuses.”
Elizabeth Wardle, PhD “The Rhetoric of Abortion: Reflections from a Former Pro-Life Activist” Quoted in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 90
This pro-choice activist admits that pro-lifers have a more persuasive case. Perhaps this is why so many young people are becoming pro-life. Read more about pro-choicers comments on abortion pictures here.
See some pictures of abortions here.
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