Should Abortionists Be Allowed to Advertise on British Television?
Posted: Monday, October 05, 2009
by Carolyn Tytler
Should a Mafia hit-man be allowed to advertise on British television? Both abortionists and hit-men specialize in ending human life for money. It seems only fair that if one can advertise his services on television, the other should also be allowed to do so too.
Actually, the hit-man may have more justifiable arguments for being allowed to advertise than the abortion provider. The hit-man's victim has usually done something to incur the wrath of an enemy. He is hated so much that the hit-man's employer is willing to risk capital punishment or an extensive prison term to wipe him completely off the surface of the earth.
The hit-man works harder for his money. Before the deed, he must stalk the victim for a period of time and learn his habits and routine. He has to plan the crime carefully and plot his getaway route. He has to foresee possible glitches and figure out how to cope with them. He may want to arrange an alibi for the critical time period, just in case.
The abortionist has no such concerns. The mother comes by appointment, he kills her child, she pays his fee, and she leaves the same day. He can do several procedures a day if the patients are available. Sadly, they usually are.
The hit-man's methods of carrying out his gruesome task are usually quick and painless. He doesn't want to attract attention and he needs to make a quick getaway. A shot through the head, a knife in the back, a fast-acting, hard-to-trace poison, a hit-and-run accident, all of these can dispatch the intended target with a minimum of time and risk.
The abortionist, on the other hand, has no time or risk constraints. His customers usually stay in the abortion clinics for a few hours at least. The babies may be poisoned by a strong salt solution injected into the womb, cut into pieces with a loop-shaped knife called a curette, then vacuumed out, or killed and removed by a combination of these and other grotesque procedures. In later term pregnancies, the foetus has been observed by ultrasound trying to move away from the abortionist's tools.
In partial-birth abortions, which are legal in North America for late-term babies, as the head emerges from the birth canal, the neck is slit open, a suction-tube inserted into the brain which is then sucked out. The child dies, the head the collapses and the rest of the body emerges.
If these images were shown on British television, they might have the opposite effect to that the advertiser intended. I would venture to guess that the numbert of abortions would quickly decline in any country where the true pictures of an abortion were made public.
Personally. I would prefer to see the hit-man's advertisement on my TV. At least his victims have a fighting chance to survive, however slight.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)Interesting article.Is it better that abortions be performed in hospitals by medical professionals, or in back streets by amateurs?Is it better for a foetus to be killed in a hospital, or a child killed by neglect within its first year by its desparate, unwilling mother?Abortion isn't a nice thing, but it is the "lesser evil" compared to the alternatives (abstinence isn't one - that has been shown to be extremely ineffective in reality because people simply don't stick to it).So yes, TV ads making women aware of their options should be allowed to advertise in British TV. Ideally they should promote contraception first and make it clear that contraception is far preferable.
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