Posted on 04/29/2010 12:04:33 PM PDT by marcbold
Pro-lifers like me love science and technology. Yup. We're like science geeks without the comic books. And we've got girlfriend and wives.
For years, religious people have been called backward and anti-science while pro-lifers actually couldn't wait for scientific and technological breakthroughs so we could all get a better look inside the womb and understand better what it is to be human. I think everyone must remember the first time they saw a 4-d ultrasound. It changes you. It's changed lots of people.
The moment America saw the delicate, beautiful, and strong hand, the human features, the smiles, the thumbsucking of a 20-week-old baby in the womb much of America reconsidered everything we took for granted. When we see five beautiful fingers that only a loving God would take the time to create reach out, it changed everything.
Poll numbers in recent years have taken a decidedly pro-life turn and while part of that is simply that pro-lifers have more children another aspect that shouldn't be dismissed is that the more we see inside the womb the more difficult it is to believe the lies of abortionists who say it's a blob of tissue.
The unspoken message of the ultrasound is clear to all with an open heart: “I'm human—just like you.”
It was the same message of Harriet Beecher Stowe whose novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin” made the horrors of slavery impossible to ignore. It was the message of Rosa Parks who awakened a slumbering country to the evils of racism by the simple act of sitting down. It is the message of the victims and the oppressed throughout our history: “"I'm human—just like you.”
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I asked my state rep to introduce an ultrasound law over 8 years ago. I still don’t think she has been able to get it passed.
It is good to see it getting to this point. I have believed for a long time that an ultrasound requirement would permanently marginalize pro-abortion groups. It is kind of amazing because as Rhinos always tell us that we need to be more liberal on the issue of abortion it has been on the prolife issue that we have made the most sustained and real progress. I don’t see any other issue where we have succeeded so much and so thoroughly. Energy? Spending? Taxes? On all the issues we have seen a steady push towards the left. We did lose on Health Care but there is no doubt that most of that will be undone and the fact that it was so called “prolife” Democrats that held up the bill for so long shows how much things have changed.
The next key thing we need is a way to get parental rights laws. Not just notifications but rights laws that give parents who have legal custody full rights to choose what medical procedures and what kind of information can be given or presented to their children involving such personal issues. We need for parents to be empowered by law to sue when their kids are encouraged to get abortions or given activist liberal sex ed. I believe parental notification is the most important thing we need to accomplish to stave off not just abortion but the whole radical liberal sexual activist agenda.
The key to us winning is to empower the individuals to make the right choices and to empower them over leftist school bureaucracies who need to be taught to fear repercussions for their activism.
Delicious irony. And a finger in the eye of “scientific” atheism.
An ultrasound certainly helped my grandson to make up his mind. Of course, his mother, father and grandfather informing him of the truly unpleasant consequences of getting a young lady in the “family way” and walking away didn’t hurt. But he looked at that ultrasound and saw his little girl and that was all she wrote.
Bringing Good Things to Life (ULTRASOUND)
Citizen magazine ^ | June 2003 | Karla Dial
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