"Pro-choice" rhetoric leads to some dangerous places. When the preborn is disqualified from personhood because of her lack of self-awareness, intellectual honesty requires us to also disqualify newborns.
In the middle of high school, I began to spend Thursdays throughout summer on Webster Street in Fort Wayne, IN. Good friend and stalwart defender of life Pam Durdahl called Thursday “the best and worst day of the week.” It was the best because you were with like-minded people—indeed, this is where I met Aubrie! But, what brought us all together is why it was the worst: This was the day each week when Ulrich Klopfer would come to town to kill babies. Details continue to be released in the horrific discovery this month that Klopfer stored babies’ bodies in the garage at his Illinois residence. But one note which grabbed my attention is that these babies died in the years of 2000-2002, the latter half of my high school days. All of these babies came from Indiana. And now we know some of them died in Fort Wayne, meaning while I was on that sidewalk, Klopfer was killing babies and taking them home. It seems it was not enough for him to violate the victims once. I didn’t know the...
Below is the testimony I delivered before the Ohio Senate Health, Human Services, and Aging Committee on December 13, 2011 regarding House Bill 125, which would prohibit abortion after the medical detection of a fetal heartbeat. Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee, my name is Seth Drayer and I come before you interested in the fate of House Bill 125. In particular, I want to refer to Division E of the bill’s language, which prohibits the practice of abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. Lines 1 and 5 of Division E give clarity to the thrust of this legislation—not merely to provide the opportunity for detection of a fetal heartbeat, but to prohibit abortion once that heartbeat has been detected. It is this portion of the bill in particular which I champion—for it is another step in our nation’s long march of civil rights. Civil rights means not only providing education of the humanity of the unborn but protecting them from death—just as veritable civil rights for the...
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