Saw an abortion related flyer today. Didn't rip it down.

[HEyHEY]

I was waiting at the bank machine and saw someone had put a little flyer saying "Adoption, not abortion" on it. I was instinctively going to rip it off thinking it was anti-abortion propaganda. But then I stopped, realized it really wasn't calling abortion people names or anything and was suggesting an alternative, not demanding abortion be stopped.

Did I do the right thing?

[Longhorn]

1. That's what PRO-CHOICE is all about!

Nothing at all wrong with adoption, as long as the woman gets to decide if that's what she wants to do.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

2. That one isn't so bad

The ones showing the photo of the aborted fetus should be ripped down, spit upon, crumpled up, run over with a car, dropped in acid, then burned.

Sorry, but I just think it is incredibly insensitive (not to mention plain sick) to use a photo like that to advance your cause.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Absolutely!

The problem is that we have lost the ability to have a dialogue. All we do is scream at each other. People who keep the dialogue open find common ground, eventually. That is, at its bedrock, what America was supposed to be about. Celebration and buttressing of The Common Ground.

[Larry Tyler]

6. I guess Ive been wrong at times also then

I have used pictures of the war casualties to further my stand on why it is wrong to blow up innocent people, men women and children.

I suppose that by the standards that you bring forward with your post, I have been wrong to do this?


I may not like their posters, but they do have every right to display whatever it is they like.
Maybe if enough people are disqusted by them, they will change their mind on the whole issue and vote against those doing it.
But then, by the same rights, maybe my pictures will disgust some and make them vote against my issue.


you bring a valid point.

Is it good to show the effects of a tragidy in such a graphic way as to produce shock?

[cjm2222]

4. Yes, you did the right thing

It wasn't an over-the-top message; it was simple and unoffensive.

[msanthrope]

5. You did the right thing.....

I am of the opinion that there is a lot more common ground between the pro-choice and pro-life sides than we commonly allow ourselves to recognize.

Adoption, when done correctly, can be a benefit to every party involved. It is an alternative.

I have long encouraged my friends who are pro-life to eschew the violent protests and put their considerable efforts into adoption/foster care reform. Some of them have done so, and have reported back to me that they felt much better helping children than being in front of a clinic.

FYI--I've worn the blue vest enough times to know that the protests and counterprotests aren't the solution: abortion should be safe, legal, easily accessible, and rare.

[murielm99]

7. You did the right thing.

Adoption is a choice, if that is what the woman wants, if she is not pressured into it. It is one of many choices.

I do march for abortion rights. I think we need to be visible, to counter the anti-abortion groups.

My youngest daughter introduced me to a friend at an Iowa demonstration. Her friend had a sign that said, "Adopted and pro-choice."

[NightTrain]

8. You done good!

People are, after all, entitled to their opinion. And as you implied, there was nothing offensive about that flyer. :thumbsup: