Response to Harding's Abortion Talk

I would like to thank John Harding for his time and effort in presenting his views on the pro-life/pro-choice battle at OUC. He was very effective in capturing the essence of our battle with the OUC student's association.

While I am, of course, in agreement with the central message of his editorial, I would like to confront one comment he made in which I am not in agreement, that being his reference to the acceptability of disallowing the display of aborted foetus images.

Yes, pictures of aborted unborn babies are horrific to look at and yes, they are disturbing. However, there are crucial questions we need to ask ourselves. First, why do we as a society deem it inappropriate to display images of babies torn to pieces with an abortion while deeming it appropriate to tear babies to pieces with abortion? Second, what is worse: showing a picture of a baby killed by abortion, or killing a baby with abortion? If anything needs to be censored, it is abortion itself, not the pictures.

So long as society unknowingly tolerates and encourages the killing, caring, pro-life intellects will continue to display the pro-aborts’ handiwork in an attempt to educate and arouse compassion, even outrage.

These images prove beyond a doubt that abortion is an act of violence that kills a baby. We are deceived into tolerating the killing, even elevating it the level of a constitutional right. The terrible reality of abortion needs to be exposed to society in order for us to act. If not, the killing will remain out of the public eye and out of the public mind, hidden behind the walls of KGH and in the abortionists’ cold, stainless steel pans. Precious lives will continue to be lost and precious women will continue to be deeply wounded.

The reality is legalized abortion is as morally repulsive as legalized slavery. We need to recognize that abortion, like slavery, is an injustice tolerated because the dominant segment of society has defined the victim as something less than fully human, a non-person.

When science proved that blacks are human beings, slavery finally ended. Today, science has proven that life begins at conception and therefore the unborn are living human beings… it is now time to stop the killing.

Marlon Bartram
President, OUC Student For Life