Posted on 08/12/2013 2:14:16 PM PDT by NYer
August 12, 2013 (LifeIssues) - Let’s be honest. To truly be successful advocates for life, we can’t just spend our time “preaching to the choir.” We must step outside our comfort zone to reach those who are on the other side. This is no easy task when you’re faced with individuals who hurl obscenities, act combative or are willfully defiant. But if we’re to change hearts and minds, we must first try to understand the motives of those who are for abortion.
Not all pro-abortion advocates are the same, but I believe there are five general traits that exist among this group. They are:
What’s common throughout these characteristics is that the perspective is narrow—they lack the vision to see the entire picture. And that’s the key. Advocates of abortion want to stay focused only on their limited talking points. When a person’s eyes are opened to the full reality of what abortion means, viewpoints can and will change. To learn how this transition succeeds, let’s take a look at some true stories of individuals who were once in favor of abortion.
Jennifer Fulwiler was a self-proclaimed “pro-choice atheist.” It was a comment from her husband that first caused Jennifer to start examining her views on abortion. He said, “It just occurred to me that being pro-life is being ‘pro-other-people’s-life.’ Everyone is ‘pro-their-own-life.’” That single statement made Jennifer realize that by supporting abortion she was essentially deciding whose lives were worth living. As she investigated the issue further, she was faced with technological advancements like 4D ultrasounds. Not wanting to face the overwhelming evidence, she found herself changing and moving her definition of “human.” A turning point occurred when she researched partial-birth abortion and discovered that there were people in professional positions justifying infanticide by calling the victims fetuses instead of babies. She said, “My views were motivated by loving concern: I just did not want women to have to suffer. But I recognized that I had told myself lies in order to maintain my support for abortion. Good, well-meaning people—people like me—can support gravely evil things because of the power of lies.”
Yet, the truth breaks through those lies. An example of that occurred at the recent trial of Kermit Gosnell. Reporter JD Mullane relayed, “There was a journalist who told me that he is very liberal, very pro-choice. But after sitting through the testimony in the Gosnell trial, he’s reconsidered. He’s changed his mind.” In a court of law, faced with profoundly shocking evidence and the gruesome testimony of witnesses, the grisly truth of abortion was revealed. No amount of ideological arguments could counter those facts.
For most of her life, Ronnie Koenig remained, in her words, “a Feminist with a capital ‘F,’” strongly advocating for a woman’s right to abortion. Then last year, she listened as vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan explained why he was pro-life by talking about seeing his daughter on an early sonogram and how he and his wife nicknamed her “Bean.” Ronnie was shocked to realize that she agreed with him! She reflected on her own pregnancy, after suffering years of infertility. She recalls, “There they were on the monitor in front of me—my two little beans. Ba-bump-ba-bump-ba-bump went their heartbeats. From that moment on, life never felt the same.” She’s now a believer that life begins at conception. Although she only considers herself “sort-of pro-life,” she comes to a thought-provoking conclusion. “We are kidding ourselves if we don’t acknowledge that it does stop a beating heart—however defective, weak or unwanted that heart is. And that’s because the heartbeats I heard that day in the doctor’s office were so rhythmic and insistent, already so full of life.”
The truth will always be on the side of life. That’s the reason abortionists don’t want mothers to hear their baby’s heartbeat. It’s why abortion advocates fight against ultrasounds, because women would see a baby, not a clump of cells. They continue to attack common-sense regulations and abortion alternatives in order to embrace their lies and hide from the truth. It’s an ongoing challenge to overcome deceit so a person is open to receiving the truth. And this is the reason why we must remain vigilant in pro-life education and being a voice for the voiceless. Because we never know how something we say or do could change a person’s heart and mind toward embracing life.
Ping!
Maybe the thrill of murdering babies pales after awhile.
I went with my wife and our 3 year old son today to my wife’s pregnancy check up. She is 19 or 20 weeks along and today we found out that she is having another boy. On the ultrasound we could see arms, legs, the head, and even the umbilical cord. How anyone could ever see that and still have a cold enough heart to willfully end that life is beyond me. It must take a special kind of evil to not only condone it, but to celebrate it as a twisted kind of feminine empowerment.
i wonder if their NOT having been aborted had something to do with it?
Congratulations!!!
"How anyone could ever see that and still have a cold enough heart to willfully end that life is beyond me. It must take a special kind of evil to not only condone it, but to celebrate it as a twisted kind of feminine empowerment."
Your heart has been softened to see this atrocity as it is. Some have been blinded by their sin. Pagans of old used to pass their children through fire to appease their cruel (and non-existent) gods...now they pass them under the knife. Still just as lost.
Why bother listening to people who were idiots to begin with? It’s not like they all of a sudden got smarter.
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Abby Johnson: When I was a Planned Parenthood manager, I would have died for abortion
Abby Johnson: Celebrating Two Years Since I Quit Planned Parenthood
Abby Johnson: Parents, Tell Your Kids About Abortion; The Baby is Broken
Two Abortion Facility Workers Quit, Abby Johnson Says [FReepers: we can help them]
The new Abby Johnson?: Another Planned Parenthood manager quits and converts to pro-life
Abby Johnson: Abortion Doc Told Patient “I Will Take Your Sin”
Abby Johnson Joins LifeNews.com as Guest Pro-Life Blogger
Abby Johnson: ‘I would give my life’ to undo the evil I caused at Planned Parenthood
Former Planned Parenthood director: Dr. Nathanson ‘gave me hope I could do the same’
Former Planned Parenthood director, now pro-life, to become Catholic [Catholic Caucus]
A Deadly Domino Effect : Abby Johnson left Planned Parenthood and joined the cause of life.
Former Planned Parenthood director joins staff of Live Action
Former Planned Parenthood director to become Catholic
Former Planned Parenthood director to convert to Catholicism
Former Planned Parenthood director releases book
Escape from Abortion: A Review of unPlanned by Abby Johnson
Former Planned Parenthood director releases book
Escape from Abortion: A Review of unPlanned by Abby Johnson
First Chapter of Abby Johnson's Planned Parenthood Book Unplanned
A friend who is now pro-life told me that even before he became pro-life he could see that babies conceived in rape or incest were in the same category as babies who weren’t. It was either right or it was wrong, and if it was wrong it was wrong for incest and rape as well.
His logical mind kept at it, and he is now a particularly fervent pro-lifer. Still an atheist. We’re all silently working on that one.
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