In a message dated 2/11/1999 5:43:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Listing the names/addresses of abortion doctors and bombarding people with
those pictures of aborted babies was just too much. >>
All:
I think that listing anyone's private addresses on a web site against their
consent is wrong in any case.
However, if they choose to show pictures of aborted babies, then that is
their right to do so. Would the clamor be so much if an animal rights group,
in order to publicize its strong feelings against the abuse of animals, makes
a web site showing abused or maltreated animals, perhaps in a lab? Pictures of
dead animals? What about those little collection cans in many stores with the
picture of the abused cat or dog on it?
With all the horrid content on web sites, we all have to (a) avoid such sites
and (b) just click beyond them. Anyone can set up a web site on virtually
anything, putting whatever pictures they want up. If there is no legal problem
in the the "getting" or "ownership" of the pictures, then what is the issue?
Is it that it is just not something people want to see, little fetuses? Why
not? They aren't babies are they? What is the opposition to those pictures
existing on the internet? Can't we peruse the internet and see all sorts of
hideous tumors, diseased portions of bodies, autopsy pictures, etc.?
Not to add to the already gathering war, I would like to ask why is it when a
woman is happy she is pregnant, from the first day she knows she is pregnant,
and others know, it is considered a baby coming. People get involved in
addressing the pregnant woman as mommy, the father as daddy, the mother acts
with the realization that she is with child, even that phrase "with child"? -
she eats better, avoids negative things, etc. Many cultures around the world
even have special ceremonies, special dress, hairstyles (mom) for this news.
And when a woman miscarries, who says to her "it wasn't a baby anyway"?
If a woman is physically attacked, perhaps by an abusive partner, and she
miscarries, who doesn't feel that a life was lost? (taken?)
However, when a woman is not happy she is pregnant, doesn't want to have a
baby, it is deemed not a baby.
I think the hypocrisy on both sides of the issue needs to stop. Whatever you
choose to do, just do it, it is your choice and don't try to make it into
something different.
nicole
