I was heading out of my office building to grab some lunch about an hour ago and encountered probably the most disturbing sight I'd seen in awhile. Anti-Abortion protestors (I don't call them pro-life, especially when many I've encountered are ironically also pro-death penalty) have stationed themselves outside my building. FYI, I don't even work in a medical building, just your standard downtown building full of marketing and banking offices.
Anyway, the "most disturbing sight" was not the partially aborted and dismembered fetuses colorfully adorning the posters of the protestors. It was the fact the the signs are being held and carried by children, who cannot possibly be above the age of 10 years old, while their parents look on proudly. Yes. There is an anti-abortion protest outside my office building comprised primarily of elementary school age children.
"How did you spend your summer vacation, Timmy?"
"Helping my mom display posters of bloody fetuses!"
So much for my lunch break.
And another thing. If these parents are the same people who are protesting nudity, sex, and violence on television, I think the pictures those children are carrying outside my office are far more damaging to a child's blossoming mind than "Desperate Housewives" or Janet Jackson's wayward nipple.