November 11, 2010
by Kortney Blythe
SFLA Field Director
Cigarettes cause death. Sometimes it’s self-inflicted death. Sometimes it’s 2nd hand smoke that kills a non-smoker. This is the reasoning behind the FDA putting graphic pictures of corpses and other horrifying things on cigarette packaging – to warn smokers about the risks of cigarette smoke to themselves and others.
Why does the government care? Because life should be cherished and maybe the pictures will cause a smoker to second guess taking that next puff of poison.
Without getting into the politics of the government telling companies what they must put on their packaging, let’s just assume it’s a good thing to warn people about risks and side effects, especially the grisly and deadly ones.
According to the Associated Press, “The images are part of a new push announced by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday to reduce tobacco use, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths per year.”
Well, according to Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood and other facilities are responsible for 1,200,000 abortions per year. Using this logic, when is the FDA going to announce their “push” to “reduce” abortions by mandating images of preborn genocide victims be placed on Planned Parenthood killing centers? It would certainly be an accurate warning of the fate that awaits a preborn person whose mother enters an abortion facility.
Smokers choose to smoke, and in the process, they sometimes kill themselves or others. But the government wants to warn them about the deadly effects. Mothers choose to procure abortions, and in the process a child is always killed and families are always scarred. Sometimes women are killed by abortions. Oftentimes they are rendered infertile. Always, the risk of breast cancer skyrockets after abortion.
Maybe we could put large pictures of cancer infested breast tissue on the walls inside abortion facility waiting rooms? What about ella, the newly FDA-approved pill, labeled as a contraceptive, that actually causes abortions and increases cancer risk. Where are the warning labels?
Hormonal birth control pills are labeled as Group A carcinogens (same label as cigarettes) by the World Health Organization, did you know that? It seems that more people know of the cancerous effects of cigarettes, than they do about the detrimental chemicals in birth control. So, why aren’t there pictures of cervical cancer patients on the packages of birth control?
Shouldn’t a government that seems to care so deeply for the lives of adult smokers and other non-smoking adults and children impacted by cigarettes, warn of the devastating consequences of abortion on women, children and men? When will our society and government choose truth over politics and stop suppressing the toxic side effects of abortion on human beings?