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Every time a picture of a dead fetus shows up in someone’s mailbox (put there by anti-abortion activists such as ourselves, of course), it’s Rally ‘Round the Mass Grave over on Parliament Hill.

Last week, we started the newest installment of our “Face the Children” Project, placing postcards in the mailboxes of Hamilton Mountain NDP MP Chris Charlton which featured her face next to a dismembered pre-born child and the banal, factual statement: “MP Chris Charlton Supports Abortion.” Which she does.

Pro-abortion politicians, though, very much dislike it when dead fetuses refuse to stay in the trash can/bio-hazard bin/incinerator where they can remain conveniently hidden from those old enough to cast votes. Because often when they do, we hear testimonies like this:

“I just finished listening to News Talk 1010AM and Stephanie Gray was on it to discuss the abortion awareness flyers that were being sent to various communities. I live in Brampton and although I was indifferent to the abortion debate previously, after receiving the flyers in my mailbox my view has changed. The word abortion is easy to throw around until you see what it actually is. It is a destruction of life plain and simple. It's horrible to see these pictures but no one said becoming educated was easy. I would like to commend your organization's efforts to provide us average oblivious Canadians to what this word abortion really is. Please do not stop your efforts. This is very important work.”

Of course, we get other feedback as well. Members of Parliament have been taking to Twitter in spades to condemn us and support Ms. Charlton (inadvertently proving the debate is open, of course), from Carolyn Bennett to Megan Leslie to Rosane Dore Lefebvre to the wonderfully bi-partisan Libby Davies. Some people dislike being faced with the reality of a worldview that has survived for so long precisely because it has been so abstract.

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As I said when we launched this campaign last year, I hate abortion victim photography too. But I hate the victimization more, which is why we are injecting the reality of what we’re actually discussing into the abstract conversation. The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (who I’m sure will forgive us for not accepting its advice on anything, ever) stated that “The CCBR digs more holes for itself.” Metaphorically true, to a degree. But we’re unearthing precisely what ARCC and the abortion politicos want buried: The corpses brought to you courtesy of “choice.”

Politicians count on people merely poking at issues like abortion, rather than grappling with them like our postcards force them to do. Politicians count on the continuation of our cultural cognitive dissonance that allows us to disregard the sharp contrast between what we know intellectually and instinctively about the pre-born child in the womb, and what we politically believe about abortion “rights.” Politicians count on the fact that as long as no one has to face the missing children, no one will bother to ask where, exactly they are.

So we’ll show everyone what happened to them. As Gregg Cunningham said, when you show people an abortion victim photo, abortion protests itself.

Reprinted with permission from Unmasking Choice