Moral obligation to watch abortions? Please. There is someone that photographs abortions. And it's not what "pro-lifers" claim it is.
There are "pro-lifers" that say that pro-choicers should watch abortions as some sort of gotcha. I browsed for a while and I found a professional photographer that photographs late-term abortions. Like the 9 month ones these people rant about all the time. And it turns out that:
ALL of the babies from the photographer's clients, yes ALL OF THEM, were WANTED.
That's right. It's not this gore porn that these people say it is. This photographer is hired to photograph families that have to make the one of hardest choices anyone can make. The babies were too sick to live. They were never, ever going to have a chance to have a real life. The families go in to induce labor or have a c-section and these photos capture the last moments of people saying goodbye to babies they actually wanted.
This is from the site:
>I'm an Abortion Photographer.
>Babies are being aborted at 9 months gestation and I am there to photograph it.
>Yes. You read that correctly.
>This is the narrative that is being shared over and over on social media and in the news, and even in the presidential debate - that babies who’ve spent 35+ weeks growing inside the womb are being aborted.
>What isn’t being told is that these babies are loved, cherished, and so, SO wanted.
>I work with families who are faced with some of the hardest, most devastating decisions they’ll ever have to make concerning their unborn baby. These babies have been diagnosed with life-limiting, fatal prognoses, and if they are born alive, their time on this earth is usually very short - sometimes mere minutes.
>These families, along with their doctors and care providers, collectively choose to induce labor or schedule a cesarean section so that families can meet their baby alive and spend those precious seconds, minutes, and sometimes even hours cuddling and snuggling and loving upon their child that was so very wanted. They choose palliative care (or sometimes called comfort care) for their baby, so instead of being whisked off to the NICU for medical interventions that will only at-best prolong the baby’s life for a short time, they instead get to surround their child with love and family and comfort in their brief moments on this earth. And I am there to capture these families' precious, fleeting memories with their sweet babe.
>And on paper, this is being labeled as an abortion.
>But that sure doesn’t sound like someone who is 9 months pregnant walking into an abortion clinic wanting to rid their body of the healthy baby they’ve been carrying for nearly a year because suddenly they don’t want it, does it?! Because it’s not. It’s absolutely not. This doesn’t happen ever.
>My passion is to give families everlasting memories in photographs of their truly, once-in-a-lifetime moments with their babies, and sometimes those moments on paper are labeled as abortions. And because of this, I am, amongst other things, an abortion photographer.
>I am also a passionate, family-centered, empathetic photographer and human who respects families’ wishes, whatever they may be, and documents for them those moments that they got to choose just how they unfolded.
>When we take those choices away from families, as a total abortion ban would do, we are not stopping these lives from being lost - because they will still be lost, as is the case with fetal fatal prognoses - but instead forcing families into painful, traumatic situations that could have otherwise been avoided if said ban wasn’t in place.
>9-month abortions aren’t happening like is being projected, and we need to do all that we can to protect these rights for families. I don’t want to stop being a photographer - whether it be a healthy, live birth or an abortion due to fatal anomalies - because I know just how important these photos are to families yesterday, today, tomorrow, and years from now. They were for us when we lost our son at 22 weeks into my pregnancy due to severe hydrops, amongst many other fatal conditions. I cherish his photos, and I know the families I photograph do the same with theirs.
>Families deserve choices, period. No one should be forced into a path that they didn’t choose for themselves, no matter what they are faced with.
Link: Abortion Photographer
Okay, It's me stepping in again:
One thing that is starting to piss me off is the idea that these people could be passing someone else's tragedy off as proof why abortion needs to be banned.
Any real photo that they are sharing will have all the context removed so they can push their agenda that helps create these situations. These photos have value and "pro-lifers" cheapen these images by using them without context. These real photos wherever they are from have value and the images don't deserve to be cheapened by being turned into anti-abortion propaganda and ragebait.
We pro-choicers should step in and demand that these all real images of later abortions be treated with the respect and dignity that they deserve.