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Maybe the facts should be confronted

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Friday, Jun. 22, 2012 | Comments: 1

In regards to the article “Anti-Abortion Posters Shock Women’s Resource Centre Staff” (June 14), I would like to quote a point feminist (and abortion advocate) Naomi Wolfe makes in a New Republic article, Oct. 16, 1995:

“The pro-choice movement often treats with contempt the pro-lifers’ practice of holding up to our faces their disturbing graphics. … (But) how can we charge that it is vile and repulsive for pro-lifers to brandish vile and repulsive images if the images are real? To insist that truth is in poor taste is the very height of hypocrisy. Besides, if these images are often the facts of the matter and if we then claim that it is offensive for pro-choice women to be confronted with them, then we are making the judgment that women are too inherently weak to face a truth about which they have to make a grave decision. This view is unworthy of feminism.”

And to quote bio-ethicist Gregg Cunningham:

“If something is so horrifying we can’t stand to look at it, perhaps we shouldn’t be tolerating it.”

Irene Perey

Brandon

Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition June 22, 2012

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Posted by:Miss Funk

June 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM

Thank you for sharing the quotes and for taking the time to defend those who
cannot defend themselves.

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