The American Spectator

A few minutes earlier a car had stopped on Pennsylvania Avenue and the female driver was furious about the display. What had bothered her? Leslie Sneddon told me that the woman was “just very angry at the pictures and the fact that little children would have to see them. Our experience has shown that sometimes people who are angry are usually angry at themselves for not realizing what it is they support! Some may have participated in an abortion and are angry because they are now confronted with the reality.”

Others may be complicit in friends’ abortions; or may be Christian or otherwise pro-life and realize they should be doing more about it. The need to protect children is often invoked, Mrs. Sneddon said. But a man who walked by with several small children looking at the pictures said that he wasn’t concerned because the pictures were “the truth.”

Gregg Cunningham, the executive director of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, tells an interesting story in his latest newsletter. He spoke to a conference in London sponsored by Christian Concern. But he soon found that one speaker representing a “supposedly pro-life organization opposes the use of abortion imagery in abortion education.” Why? They would never be invited back into the schools as guest lecturers if they showed those horrid pictures! But the exchange between them continued, and eventually at least some timid pro-life Brits were persuaded to be more courageous.

“We cannot fight abortion by covering it up,” says Gregg Cunningham. He’s right about that.