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Anti-abortion display ignores larger injustices in the world

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Last updated: 10/07/09 3:14pm

Editor,

The Justice for All anti-abortion exhibit was extremely upsetting to me, and not because of the graphic photos of fetuses.
The name of the organization is a farce. I see no grotesque photographs of the millions of starving and diseased people in Africa or of the maimed and poorly compensated factory workers around the world who produced the clothes that most of us are taking for granted as we wear them around campus today.
A group with a name like “Justice for All” needs to be representative of something more than the typical political controversies within the United States that presidential candidates discuss every four years. It should force us to see the suffering of those to whom we, as a nation, have turned a blind eye because they are not in line with political and economic ambitions and, instead of simply arguing, take action.

Sarah Minor
UNM student

Published October 6, 2009 in Letters, Opinion

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Steve

October 7, 2009 at 5:12 PM
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You’re right, Sarah. It is Justice for ALL. There are those who focus on hunger; those who focus on labor injustices; those who focus on violence or war; those who focus on racism. This is another injustice. When I see large displays of hunger, labor, war, and racism appear I don’t accuse them of leaving something out. I won’t ask an anti-hunger advocate to put up pictures of abortions; or spend my time telling an anti-war protester that they should be discussing labor issues. Seems it’s OK for all other injustices to speak up … except abortion. These people also see their plight as the need to “see the suffering of those to whom we, as a nation, have turned a blind eye…”

Themage

October 7, 2009 at 7:47 PM
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Your suggestion is moving in the right direction. If these anti-abortion people would take their energy and motivation to fixing things like poverty, hunger, shelter, and water for all people I have a feeling that abortion would be less of a problem. They cannot seem to see the big picutre though. When you talk to them you can easily see that there’s not much more to their arguement than what you thought they would argue in the first place.

Steve

October 8, 2009 at 8:59 AM
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…and the same can be said of the all those groups: If these poverty, hunger, shelter, and water people would take their energy and motivation to fixing things like abortion, I have a feeling that poverty, hunger, shelter, and water would be less of a problem. ALL of these are a problem. They are part of the big picture and in turn are doing their part, just like you. Poverty, hunger, shelter, and water are not the only issues.

Linda

October 8, 2009 at 1:52 PM
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Free speech is one thing, but free speech in huge signs that don’t even add up to reality is, in my opinion, stupid. They get little respect from me. Their approach is like a giant ad that says we support overpopulation, babies left to die by dumpsters, child abuse, rape, teen mothers, and perpetuating the dysfunctional family.

Abortion is a health matter, a personal matter. Isn’t health care supposed to private? That is what HIPPA is all about, so that these kinds of people cannot seek me out at my home address and make me rethink my decision. Instead, they make it their business to push what should be a private matter in the face of people who don’t need nor want to hear their opinions on the matter of abortion.

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Next week I’d like to see huge posters of uncles incestuously raping their child relatives. I’d like to see pictures of babies after they’ve been thrown against a wall. I’d like to hear the sounds of a father beating his kid with a belt and see tons more pictures of hungry homeless children.

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