This is one of the more ludicrous things I've read recently. TMZ, the trashy website that posts celebrity gossip/news, posted the above photo last week. The story was about Michelle Duggar, who recently miscarried her 21st child, and the photo of the baby's feet the family showed at the funeral for the child, Jubilee. TMZ blurred the baby's tiny feet in the photo and warned that "images may be disturbing." Really? Disturbing to whom? I'm very confused by this.The images of Jubilee's tiny feet may disturb TMZ's readers, yet it is perfectly legal to abort fetuses of this size and gestation in this country? I'm sorry, but it cannot be both ways. If it is legal and acceptable to kill a baby of this gestation, then no one should be "disturbed" by a photo of the wanted baby of married parents who died of natural causes. As a matter of fact, all fetuses should have an ultrasound image - hey, why not one of the 4D images that are so en vogue now for parents who want their baby to be born - captured and framed for posterity. Then, when the baby is killed, the image can be hung on a Wall of Shame somewhere. How about a museum dedicated to those killed in utero? There is a museum in Washington, DC, dedicated to the estimated 11 million victims of the Holocaust. Why not create a museum of abortion victims, of which there have been an estimated 50 million since Roe vs. Wade in 1973?
Whether you are "for" the legality of abortion or not, you should recognize the hypocrisy inherent in "protecting" people from the very images of what is being put to death. Of a life willfully ended. If we are confident enough of our right to end a baby's life, then we damned well should be confident enough to face up to the fact that there was a living human being there, and he or she had tiny fingers and toes, and was a person, not a blob.
Here is what the photo of Jubilee really looked like:
Say there are two fetuses. Both have hands like this. One has a mother who has prayed for her to be. One has a mother who has prayed for her not to be. One continues growing until she is delivered into her mother's arms; one is killed and discarded. Basically, what we are saying is that the wanted fetus is a baby, a joyful happening, and the unwanted one is a thing, a problem to be resolved. They are the same thing, no matter how the mother feels about them. I feel like a Vulcan and this is the most illogical thing I have ever encountered.
I don't understand.
