Last Tuesday, the nonprofit organization The Center for Bio Ethical Reform exhibited their Genocide Awareness Project at the University of West Florida next to the Commons. The display featured graphic photographs of aborted and abused and neglected children.
I was taken aback by the exhibit as I walked from the Commons to the library. First, I had just eaten lunch so you can imagine the ramifications the images had on my not yet settled stomach. But more importantly, I was unsure of what to make of the graphic photographs, or moreso what to take away from them.
I have always been pro-life, however, I have never vilified those who oppose my stance on abortion. I believe that life begins at conception and that an embryo is a living human-being. My stance on abortion is undoubtedly shaped by my moral convictions and principles which are undoubtedly influenced by my Christian beliefs.
Though I believe that abortion is morally unjust, I don't know if the huge exhibit was entirely effective at driving that point across and convincing others to acknowledge the unjust factor though it certainly did exhibit the brutal nature of abortion and child neglect and abuse.
Every passerby had an opinion on the exhibit and that is for certain. While I sat on the bench in front of library, the students who walked pass me either proclaimed their outright disgust, utter indifference, or agreement of the message of the exhibit.
As for the subject of the exhibit, I can say without hesitation that I agree completely that abortion is immoral. I don't know if getting that message across by shoving it down everybody's throats via a huge graphic display was necessarily an effective approach.
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