If you mean a protest might have prevented her abortion and saved her sanity, I'm not sure we can use that as an argument.
I have emphasema because I began smoking in 1962, a time when even the doctors on TV promoted cigarettes.
By the time it got into my thick skull that smoking was bad, it took another 10 or 15 years to finally get off of the addiction completely ... by THAT time .... (siigghhhh )
Anyway, my point was not so much that we must fight, but that protests aren't effective.
“If you mean a protest might have prevented her abortion and saved her sanity,”
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I was not the father. Her pregnancy was a number of years after I was last with her, and I knew nothing about her having an abortion until some years after. It was during a number of years when I had no contact with her.
We later got together at her parents NC mountain retreat many years later, late 1990s..
“By the time it got into my thick skull that smoking was bad, it took another 10 or 15 years to finally get off of the addiction completely”
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Good, you will not be blowing smoke in my face when you come to visit soon :P No one in our group smokes, but on very rare occasion, I can enjoy a good cigar ;)
Here's something that happened this past October.
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Standing on the street with a cold wind blowing, did not seem to be anything happening in the blue building, feeling a bit sorry for myself, wanting to get warm.
Then
A dark haired young woman approached me from the convenience store parking lot. I said, “Hello." She spoke not a word, but extended a hand to shake. She silently looked into my eyes, then handed me a note.
"24 years ago my mother went to a place like this because she thought she was too young and she couldn’t financially take care of me. She saw people like you and stated crying and drove away. 9 months later, she had me. I want to thank you all for what you do and what you stand for. Because of people like you, I’m alive. 2 weeks ago I saved a 3 year old from getting hit by a truck. If I hadn’t pulled him away he would have died. So in a way people like you saved his life too. Keep it up. Pass it along. God bless you all and God bless America."
Suddenly, I did not feel the cold.
They only need to be effective to the female walking into the butcher shop.