Anti abortion paraphenalia - may be sensitive

katerena · July 2011

I was walking off the subway today when I was confronted by two people who were trying to raise awareness for their group. I have no idea what their group was called because I was shocked to my core by their full size body posters of very graphic pictures of 12 week old aborted fetuses that they were wearing on their bodies.

The one guy tried to approach me and hand me a pamphlet and I immediately barked back at him "I have ZERO interest in anything you have to say" and walked away.

I have seen these posters before of course, and it's always been unsettling to me, but my god I was totally unprepared for how completely shaken I was after seeing them today. Maybe it's just because I'm pregnant, but it brought up a lot about my miscarriage a year and a half ago and I almost started crying right there on the street.

Regardless of views on the subject, I can not understand how some organizations believe this is the best way to get their message across. I do not side with prolife, but I understand their perspective, but this just seems so extreme to me. This does not encourage me to engage in a discussion, this makes me shut down to their entire argument and further cement my position on the pro choice side.

Sorry, I hope this doesn't offend anyone, I just needed to type this out. I'm still really disturbed by it and as someone who is generally unflappable about things, I'm just.... I don't even know. It's lingering with me and I wish I hadn't seen that today.

etoyama · July 2011

I'm sorry you had to see that. I get very upset by those images, too. I wonder if it ever occurred to the protesters how upset they're making women who have miscarried.

JM1977 · July 2011

I'm so sorry that you had to go through that. I know that would have stuck with me, too. (((HUGS)))

mikeandangie · July 2011

I would've had the same reaction. It also upsets me that children can see that. And I completely agree, inflammatory rhetoric like that certainly drives people away from a cause.

JM1977 · July 2011

mikeandangie:
I would've had the same reaction. It also upsets me that children can see that. And I completely agree, inflammatory rhetoric like that certainly drives people away from a cause.

Very well said!

diego299 · July 2011

I don't know how you couldn't be upset by those images regardless of where you stand on abortion. I would have had the same reaction and I am so sorry that is how you had to start out your day.

kkdavie15 · July 2011

I totally agree with you and everyone else. I don't think I could have not said something to those a-holes! You are a better person than me. Who approaches a pregnant woman about anti-aboration stuff anyway... duh your pg and obviously didn't want one??

It hits so much closer to home having been through a loss and it would have really bothered me to too. It really is so out of line to put images out there where people and kids are forced to look at them. I'm really sorry you had to go through that.

Swede25 · July 2011

I completely agree with you and everyone else. I'm appalled that someone protesting would even approach you. At 26 weeks pregnant, I'm sure you're showing somewhat!

I got in a heated argument one time with a good friend of mine from high school who loves to start political BS with me (I really am not into politics at all unless someone hits a nerve). He was saying something about abortions that are medically necessary and how they are wrong, blah blah blah and I finally had to tell him to stop being an a**hole because I had to have one after my second miscarriage and that's what it is labeled as on all the paperwork. It was the last time he brought it up.

kthappy76 · July 2011

etoyama:
I'm sorry you had to see that. I get very upset by those images, too. I wonder if it ever occurred to the protesters how upset they're making women who have miscarried.

Ditto this. But from my experience, they don't really care about women (though they claim to). Because if they did, they would keep their opinions out of our utes.

Sunshine05 · July 2011

I'm sorry you had to go through that, it is very upsetting to see those images. That's why they use them, as a shock factor. I saw them in high school and it's very traumatic and definitely stayed with me. I'm pro-life but I don't think the way that some groups go about things are right.

scooterq · July 2011

I am so sorry you had to see that. I get very upset by those kinds of images too. There were protestors with signs like that just down the street from REs office the day I went in for beta after IVF#2. I was so pissed to see them. There is a hospital and fertility clinic right there...just seems completely insensitive!

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