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Excellent article! Thanks so much for posting it! It made me remember an experience I had a few years ago. I am 59 years old and have been a Christian all my life. I was in my early 20's when Roe vs. Wade was decided, but I was newly married and it did not really impact me. I would never have had an abortion, but I did not realize it was (and still is) being used for birth control. Through my own difficulty in getting pregnant and my experience in working at a hospital where the "salines" who were too far along to be an out-patient were admitted, I came to a different opinion. Not only would I not have had an abortion, I began to see that it was indeed morally wrong.

The experience I want to recount came much later when my two beautiful twin daughters were almost grown. I would have said that I was as pro-life as it was possible to be, but I was wrong. I am not the "protest at the abortion clinic" type; and I did not go out of my way to express my opinion about the issue because my husband always tells me to avoid three topics of conversation - politics, religion, and sports. This is hard for me since they are my three favorite subjects!

I was flipping through the channels one night and came upon the late Dr. James Kennedy speaking on the topic of "The American Holocaust". I paused to listen and after just a few moments it became obvious that he was talking about abortion. At the end of the sermon he looked into the camera and seemed to say directly to me, "If someone were to ask you what YOU did personally to stop this terrible tragedy, what would you say?" I realized that, no matter how pro-life I believed myself to be, I would have to answer that question, "Not very much." I am afraid that I still do not do very much, but I do give what little money I can spare to the local pregnancy clinic which tries to give these women another "choice". I teach anatomy and make sure that I have my students look at the pictures of a 20-week old fetus and try to mention, without proselytizing, how abortion does kill a human being, not just an "unviable tissue mass". I also speak out in Sunday School and among my friends when the topic comes up instead of simply trying not to offend anyone with my "extreme" views. Although it is not very much, I have reason to believe that at least some innocent life may have been spared by my small efforts.