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[wagglebee]

I don't think most of us "become" pro-life, I believe that God makes us this way. Unfortunately, many eventually disavow their need for God and fall prey to the Culture of Death.

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[YellowRoseofTx]

I have a good friend of many, many years, who was conservative in all areas except she supported abortion. I was sickened when I discovered that fact. Then one day she told me she had changed her mind about it and was pro-life.

She said it occurred to her one day that possible future presidents, research scientists and others who could make a great difference to our world were being aborted.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I saw an ultrasound where the baby appeared that she was aware of being observed and was waving to us, I had to question the entire premise of abortion...

[cpforlife.org]

THE POWER OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

We must start with being mindful that young children are naturally Pro-Life. Ask a young child who has a pregnant mother what is inside his mother's “tummy,” and he will likely respond that it is his baby brother or sister. It is so simple to a child. Truth usually is simple. Christian educators must work with this incredible advantage: That their students minds' are open vessels for learning about the sanctity of life-from conception to natural death.

Among the current students who are in kindergarten through twelfth grade in the United States, over twelve million are in Protestant schools or Bible study, 6.8 million are in Catholic schools or Confraternity of Christian of Doctrine (CCD), and over one million are being home schooled. Imagine how different our culture would be if all of these children were to receive a Pro-Life education. These are monumental numbers that can no longer be ignored. The impact of these additional Pro-Life voters would be so tremendous, that the shift in our culture would be of historic proportions. Experience mandates that we must no longer take for granted that children will remain “naturally” Pro-Life if they are not receiving comprehensive education over a significant portion of their formative years.

The spirit in the schools of one generation,
is the spirit in the Government of the next.

Culture of Death: A Failure to Educate: The large majority of post abortive women regret their abortion. A frequent comment is “If only I knew then what I know now about unborn babies I never would have…”

Ignorance sustained by denial is crippling this nations' response to the holocaust of abortion.

For the millions of Christian-schooled people who have accepted choice, one cause is the same: They were not educated as to WHY they are supposed to BE Pro-Life and to VOTE Pro-Life. THEY WERE NOT TAUGHT THE TRUTH, so they swallowed the lies of “choice”.

What will change the culture? At the heart of it, this is truly a basic problem and there is a straightforward solution. The sanctity of life is a simple truth that can and must be taught like any other subject. In Christian schools it should be the preeminent subject and receive the greatest attention. Christian leaders who control schools, Bible study, CCD etc. need only the will to make this happen. Each day this does not happen is another day of victory for the pro-abortion forces, because ignorance of the masses is the only hope they have for survival.

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[Tribune7]

The 'pro choice" movement is predicated on lies.

Confession Of An Ex-Abortionist by By Dr. Bernard Nathanson

[Sloth]

There has been a significant shift in the pro-abortion movement over the last few years. As biological knowledge increases and medical science pushes back the boundary of viability, it has become harder and harder for them to argue that there's ambiguity about when life begins -- in fact, if you see the 'blob of tissue' argument from a pro-choicer now, you know that they are behind the times & out of the loop on the trendy pro-choice arguments.

The current pro-abortion strategy has two main arguments. One, slightly similar to the outdated one, substitutes the nebulous concept of 'personhood' or a 'soul' instead of 'life.' They say that an unborn child does (or might) not have 'full personhood' -- whatever that means -- so their rights are inferior to adults. What's interesting is the shift from a measurable, concrete standard (the existence of human life) to a spiritual/metaphysical one (the existence of a soul). And they say we're the ones trying to legislate our morality.

The other stance is more starkly honest. These pro-abortion types will freely acknowledge that abortion is the voluntary killing of a human being. Some will even use the word "murder." But they argue that circumstances make this choice a preferable or even noble one.

Neither of these are winning arguments in the long run.

[cspackler]

My wife and I could not conceive, so we began the process to adopt. We were chosen by a 14 year old girl to be the parents of her child.

Through conversations with the girls grandmother, it turns out that when the girl's mother found out she was pregnant, she threw her in the car and drove her to the local clinic.

Turns out she was on week past the latest date that an abortion could be performed, so the clinic "apologized" and sent them away.

Hard to believe that my beautiful now 7 year-old daughter was 1 week away from being called medical waste.

[WKB]

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[RKBA Democrat]

I used to be pro-choice in my views.

I guess there must have been a point where I started to think about some of the moral implications of abortion, although I don't remember the magic point when that happened. I guess I just got to the point where I regarded the practice as evil and wanted nothing to do with it.

I also think my Catholic friends had some influence on me. That was also a major factor in my choosing a church when I finally found enough sense to open my mind and heart to His grace. I just noticed over time that the people I liked and cared about were almost always Catholics and pro-life. Once I finally got around to reading some of the underlying pro-life arguments, they made logical sense to me.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

I actually remember what made me pro-life. I read Anais Nin's diaries. I was repulsed by her attitude towards her stillborn child (whose abortion was drug-induced). It was chilling. My mind reacted violently against it.

[LegionofDorkness]

I considered myself pro-choice up until my early twenties. I became a pro-lifer the day my wife miscarried what would have been our first baby. It was a few weeks into her pregnancy. Not once did we ever refer to "losing the fetus". We lost a baby.

[jwalsh07]

I've thought about this a bit and have come to this conclusion. I was born pro life, after all I'm the progeny of Irish Catholics. :-}

When I was younger and abortion became a sacrament in the late 60's and early 70's I was always uncomfortable with talk of abortion. It made no sense to me for folks to be killing their babies.

What radicalized my views were my wife, the science and the numbers. My wife was always adamantly pro life while I took more of a "hey I'd never do it but what other folks do is up to them" attitude. My wife had it right, I had it wrong. Life begins at conception, that is the science of the matter. It is indisputable. And finally the sheer numbers of human beings being killed for matters of convenience was simply appalling to me.

Later in life, an OB-GYN suggested to my daughter that she "selectively reduce" my granddaughter because she was smaller than her two brothers keeping her company in the womb which simply pushed me ever further into the pro life camp.

For many years now we've attended the March for Life which is like being reborn into the pro life movement once again. A wonderful experience to see hundreds of thousands of young teenagers already knowing what it took me considerably longer to come to know, killing babies is wrong.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Interesting. The Summer of Mercy was when I learned first hand that the media had an agenda and would flat out lie to further that agenda. They are not neutral, and more times than not, they are the enemy of truth and goodness.

[Scarchin]

It's not rocket science - killing innocent people is wrong.