Seth & Aubrie Drayer

“I had an abortion a year and a half ago.” “How are you doing now?” I asked “Julie,” who’d approached our display at Columbus State Community College. “Every day is like hell.” Over the past seven years, we’ve had countless conversations with women and men who, like Julie, find themselves oddly placed in our culture. They hear pro-abortion propaganda seeking to make abortion seem normal, commonplace, even good (e.g., 1in3campaign.org), but this rings false in light of guilt, sadness many feel within. While emotions can already be difficult to sort through, how much more complicated must it be when your society tells you those feelings are illegitimate—that you should only feel good about what you did? Julie told me she knows now that she killed her child. I acknowledged this reality, but then presented her with the good news that God forgives those who believe in His Son. In response, Julie said she is not convinced God exists. Instead of starting with evidence for G

“If you have any scientific questions about this, please ask me!” While I was holding a microphone and had been taking questions from the crowd of students spread across the commons at University of Akron, I was not the one who had made this appeal. Rather, it had been a pink-clad woman proudly bearing the vest of a “clinic escort”—signifying that she works outside abortion facilities to quickly escort women past pro-life men and women offering counsel on the sidewalks. When no student responded, I raised my microphone and said, “I have a question.” Madonna, the clinic escort, turned to me expectantly. “What is a zygote inside a mother?” She replied, “A one-celled embryo.” When I pressed her to tell me what kind of one-celled being, she asked what kind of being the mother was. Even after I clarified that I was talking about humans—which I thought had been implicit—she continued to dance around the simple truths of embryology. Nevertheless, her clarifying question provide