Pro-Lifers and their Abortion Trucks

Starting on Sunday, the day that is commonly referred to as the Sabbath, pro-life supporters began driving box trucks around the Denver metropolitan area. These weren’t just any box trucks though. On the sides and backs of these trucks were some of the most grotesque images I have ever seen. These pro-lifers thought it would be appropriate to deck on their rides with pictures of aborted fetuses and a little, bloody, baby arm draped over a quarter. The images look obscenely real and obviously affect everyone they pass.

Now pro-life or pro-choice, it doesn’t matter to me. It’s the single toughest issue to debate in American politics and in human society as a whole. They have to have limits. And what bugs me the most about these generally deeply religious pro-lifers is that these are the same people who want to rid the public airwaves of anything they deem offensive. So it’s indecent for their children to see a woman showing too much cleavage or hear the “d-word” on a television show, but it’s perfectly okay for Denver’s children to see the horrific image of a bloody, aborted fetus on the side of a truck? Things just don’t add up for me.

Now I’m as big of a proponent for free speech as it gets, but something about these trucks just doesn’t sit right. I mean I can’t think of anyone who would think it would be okay to parade around the city in a truck plastered with images of dismembered U.S. soldiers and bloodied patriots merely to prove their point that land mines need to be eliminated from our society. It would be shocking, like the abortion trucks, but no one would stand for a protest that extreme, so what makes it any different than what these pro-lifers are doing? If Joseph Frederick can get in trouble for his “bong hits for Jesus” antics, then how on Earth can these pro-lifers continue this shocking campaign? This seems way more offensive.

The pro-lifers try to defend their bloody baby buses by saying they are merely trying to get the word out to the people of America about how wrong of a practice this is. They are using the shock and awe tactic – I get it – but in this case it is absolutely inappropriate. Whether people are pro-life or pro-choice, this is something they should be opposed to. How these trucks are not considered indecent, I do not know. These pro-life protesters should be ashamed of themselves for subjecting Denverites to such terrible images as they walk the streets and eat in cafes across the city. We’ll see how long these trucks are able to peruse downtown, but any amount of time is too much time as far as I’m concerned.

I would post a picture with this story, but I cannot bring myself to perpetuate their agenda nor do I want to display that imagery to the world/Columbia. If you really want to see what I am talking about, I am sure you can Google image search for it.