Why Life and Liberty for Women Uses Graphic Images of Illegal Abortion

Life and Liberty for Women uses graphic and emotional images of illegal abortion as an education and persuasion tool aimed at generations raised since Roe v. Wade. According to the group's own description, the pictures are meant to show what illegal abortion looked like in practice and to make the case that women need accessible, safe, and legal abortion services. The organization also displays those images publicly during counter-demonstrations.

What the group says the images are for

The organization describes itself as an abortion rights educational group. Its stated approach includes:

• Educating post-Roe generations with pictures that depict what it calls the horrific sights and sounds of illegal abortion.
• Counter-demonstrating in public, displaying those images on street corners.
• Making a policy argument: that protecting women who are determined to end an unintended pregnancy requires combining accessible, safe, legal abortion services with other measures.

The images are not presented as neutral historical material. They are used to argue that restricting legal abortion does not stop abortion; it pushes women toward unsafe conditions.

Who the intended audience is

The group explicitly targets people who have grown up since Roe v. Wade. The premise is that younger generations may not have seen or understood what illegal abortion involved, so visual material is used to close that gap. The street counter-demonstrations extend that audience beyond people who seek out the group's materials.

The broader argument the images support

Alongside legal abortion services, the group lists several related positions:

• Abstinence-based, age-appropriate comprehensive sex education
• More birth control research
• Greater availability of birth control
• Greater male responsibility in pregnancy prevention

In the group's framing, the graphic images illustrate the risk of the past, while these measures describe the prevention side of its approach.

What to keep in mind

The images are intentionally disturbing, and the group says so. Readers who want to understand the organization's position should treat the images as advocacy material rather than as a neutral survey of abortion history. The group's contact information is listed as PO Box 1129, Johnstown, CO 80534, with phone 970-217-7577 and email [email protected].