The response of Rebecca Clark-Homer to the ghastly photos displayed in front of an abortion center (“In Cranston, hideous anti-abortion show,” letter, Dec. 23) is typical, but only half of what we expect. Once someone sees the horrible results of abortion, we hope she would want to put an end to the hideous practice itself, rather than simply keep the visual evidence of it away from public view. If she complains that the images are disgusting, which they are, then let’s put an end to the activity they reveal, and with genuine love protect the unborn children who would die this way, and the many mothers who will later regret their decisions.

Ms. Clark-Homer wonders what trauma young children might go through seeing those shocking photos. Pro-life activists ask her to imagine the extreme agony that children in the womb suffer as they are aborted. People in the abortion industry would prefer that their bloody work continue behind windowless walls, as the public passes by unknowing and uncaring. Our primary intention is to invite a woman entering there to realize the plain truth about the identity of her child, and learn how we can help her address her problems and also give birth to her son or daughter.

In New York there is a Holocaust Museum for Jewish victims of the Nazi regime that shows many photographs of the atrocities those 6 million people suffered. The Jewish nation eagerly displays those documentary pictures and says “Never again.” Pro-lifers today hold up a few graphic photos of the 50 million aborted American fetuses and say to mothers, fathers, doctors, politicians and everyone, “For God’s sake, no more!”

DAVID O’CONNELL

East Providence