Thread by @ABustedBoomer

Per @twitter, if I want to avoid a permanent ban, I will not post "gratuitous gore."

I posted an accurate photograph of the result of an abortion. This particular photograph included the dismembered but recognizably human face of a tiny child.

#twitterisproabortion

You've seen photographs of Picasso's abstracts. You know you were seeing a woman. You might have asked yourself, "what does it mean, why has Pable reconstructed the human visage in this manner?"

But you never asked yourself, "Is this a horse? Is it the moon?"

No. You knew it was an abstract interpretation of Picasso's vision of some woman.

When you saw Dali's "Persistence of Memory," you knew the surrealist had chosen watches/clocks as the medium of a message. You might have asked yourself, "why has Dali caused these clocks to melt, what was he thinking?"

But you didn't ask yourself, "what are these things?"

No. You knew it was a surrealist rendition of clocks/watches melting.

So too the face of that child. The haunting face of that dismembered, murdered child.

And @Twitter makes it a "gratuitous display of gore" to post the image.

No one that sees that image can unsee it.

And no one that sees that image can be both a reasonable person and ask, "is it a horse, a clock, or a gobbet of meat?"

In 1977, my sociology instructor at #CoastalCarolinaCommunityCollege invited me to participate in a debate on the topic of abortion. I agreed to do so until he divulged that my debate opponent would not agree to participate unless the ground rules prohibited one thing:

The display of photographs of aborted human babies.

The proposed debate never took place because the local abortion business owner had convinced the instructor that a picture actually was worth a thousand words. And there was no unsaying the words that photographs say.

So he would not create a forum, an opportunity, in which even a single, accurate depiction of the results of his "medical arts" exposed him as a dismemberer of humans, a snuffer of life, one of the REAL Terminators.

And now @Twitter has set its porky ass down on the pan scales on the side of secrecy, of dishonesty, of lying about what the nature of abortion is, about the humanity and suddenly stolen lives of little people murdered by abortion.

Undeniable humanity. Destroyed by undeniable inhumanity. It can ghost the conscience. And it can sear the Conscience of a Nation, as Ronald Reagan understood when he published a small book with those words, "The Conscience of a Nation," in its title.

That unconscionable cruelty and murder, accompanied by the entire social disregard for it, is why Allies compelled those residing near concentration camps to pass through those camps and bear witness to what they had tolerated, what they had allowed in their name.

And that is why photos of dead human babies cannot be tolerated by @Twitter. Because the pricks yet have a conscience, and it is pricked thereby, or because they fear that others yet have consciences to be pricked.

So I will, for now, refrain from using photographs to prick the conscience and testify to the truth that induced abortion murders human children.

And when @twitter makes words violations of TOS, that will be the end of things.

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