While learning to make a case for life in the marketplace of ideas will change minds and save lives, a different approach is needed when walking alongside someone who is encountering an unintended pregnancy. The pro-life arguments still hold true, but a woman cannot recognize the value of the unborn unless she sees her own […]
While we all of us agree, that sex trade, gang shootings, or spousal abuse is wrong, most of us do not know anyone who is affected by this. Abortion stands out in that virtually every family has, at some level, been touched by abortion.
At the same time it is much more disputed than other social issues. We do not have to defend that sex trade, gang shootings, or spousal abuse is wrong. Abortion is different: 50% of Americans have a strong opinion on abortion, approximately 25% for and 25% against abortion, while 50% are fence sitters. Here it is important to be equipped to defend your view.
Silver moonlight pours in through a window and floods the wooden panels of my bedroom floor. As I lay tossing and turning in my bed, unable to sleep, with questions swirling in my head like the twisting body of a tornado, the one question echoes, am I valuable, am I worth being alive? I pull a soft blanket around my shoulders and readjust my pillow desperately trying to pursue fleeting sleep. Like most stories, mine begins far from my birth, and as I lie wrestling my mind drifts back to the life that helped set my story in motion.
My birth was unplanned. My home-life was not easy. I ended up homeless for 1 1⁄2 years and then checked myself into an orphanage in order to have the stability to graduate from high-school. At that point I was invited to a pro-choice meeting. Out of curiosity I decided to go.
Dear Friends, Big News! I am taking a huge step and I wanted you to be among the first to know about it:
