{"id":207914,"date":"2019-08-01T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T17:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=207914"},"modified":"2019-08-01T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T17:54:20","slug":"ben-shapiro-abortion-images-changes-minds-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ben-shapiro-abortion-images-changes-minds-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro says showing abortion victim images changes minds: ‘If it’s that ugly, you should do something about it’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ben Shapiro has a history of shutting down<\/a> pro-abortion arguments. The conservative speaker and bestselling author is not one to mince words when it comes to abortion, including whether or not the use of graphic photographs is an acceptable way to change pro-abortion hearts and minds to pro-life. Shapiro seems in favor of it, despite the controversy.<\/p>\n

“Show them a picture of a dead baby. End of story,” Shapiro said during a campus event when asked what he thought the best debate tactic against an abortion supporter would be. Life Site News<\/a> reports that Shapiro told attendees the pictures may be “uncouth” but “screw uncouth – they’re true. The fact is that people have a ‘You Ruined My Day Syndrome,’ which is that they don’t want to see things that are ugly in everyday life, and if you show them things that are ugly, they get upset.”<\/p>\n

He’s right. People often take issue with knowing about the sufferings of other human beings, preferring at times to hide from the controversial humanitarian crises in the world. When confronted with an image of a dismembered preborn child, a person would have to accept that this is what abortion does and it would ruin the happy place of denial in which they have been living — especially if that person supports abortion and chooses to ignore the fact that each abortion actually takes a human life. People rightfully should be upset, angry, and heartbroken about abortion (which is a blatant violation of the human rights of preborn children and a human injustice) so that they do something to prevent it and end it.<\/p>\n

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Shapiro also voiced his support for the use of graphic images during a podcast<\/a> in which he stated, “It’s truly incredible to me, the way we can blind ourselves to this. I remember when I was at the 2012 Democratic National Convention… and I walked past this exhibit — it was the anti-abortion crowd, the pro-life crowd — and they were there with these pictures of aborted babies And I walked past, and I thought […] those are ugly pictures — should I really have to look at that in the public square? That’s really ugly. And then I realized that’s probably how people treated pictures of slavery back in the 1850s, that’s probably how people treated pictures of the Holocaust in the 1940s. The bottom line is that maybe if it’s that ugly, you should do something about it instead of whining about how ugly it is. It’s not a matter of personal choice. I have a stake in whether my neighbor gets murdered, and I have a stake in whether my neighbor’s baby gets murdered, too.”<\/p>\n

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