“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...
Thank you and God Bless all of you who have the courage to stand up for the dignity of all human life, born or unborn. May God continue to give you strength. May many people learn the horror of abortion as God continues to work through you so that one day abortion will be no more! God's love to all of you!
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
Teresa M