Ryan ChartrandI believe in freedom of speech, the right to voice opinions that don’t match my own, that it is important and necessary. But that several-story high, disgustingly bloody collage of photos on Dexter Lawn was an outrage.
I believe in free speech, but I also believe in ethics, morals and common courtesy. I felt visually raped after walking past it to class. Gory movies disgust me, so I don’t watch them, but I felt as if I had no choice but to look at that, which was the point, wasn’t it?
Why dead baby pictures? If your point is so impressive, so right on, why do you need the shock values of those pictures? To anger, disgust and scare? Is that the only way there is to explain why you believe abortion is wrong? At a meeting, conference or speech on abortion I would have been ready for those pictures, prepared, but you decided to take over a busy part of campus, to force your opinion onto others on their way to class.
I believe in free speech, but I also believe in the right to an abortion. Any woman who actually chooses to have an abortion, to extract a part of herself, is going through hell already. Does she need you to show her what her baby would have looked like when she did this?
You made your point so loudly it hurt. But at what cost?