Seth & Aubrie Drayer

The Columbus Dispatch is confirming the closure of Capital Care Women's Center (CCWC), located at 4818 Indianola Avenue.  According to a Capital Care Women's Network spokesperson CCWC will likely close within a month.   This killing center is closing. Capital Care has been plagued with decreased demand and financial problems.  They recently cut back clinic hours due to difficulty keeping abortionists.  An increasingly strong pro-life presence in Central Ohio must be signifigantly credited with contributing to the decision to close. The Gallup organization just reported that Americans that self-identify as pro-choice is at an all-time low (41%).  The closing of CCWC is just one of many indicators that we are winning the battle over abortion. Created Equal Statement: "The fact is Columbus now has one less abortion center.  Additionally, on a national scale, the numbers of abortion facilities have been declining for over a decade.  Thi...

In response to Created Equal , a student at Columbus State today passed out slips of paper as seen in the photo above.  On it are four images: a chicken egg, an acorn, a silk worm and a bit of silk, and sperm-egg fusion.  Each image has its respective caption: "This is not a chicken/tree/dress/person."  And the conclusion at the bottom (which my finger is partially covering): "This is not a difficult concept." I must say that I agree--that this argument is not difficult.  But ease of comprehension does not guarantee veracity. Let's break it down: 1. "This is not a chicken."  I agree.  Here's why: this is an egg which has not been fertilized. A non-fertilized chicken egg is analogous to a woman's non-fertilized egg that is shed monthly during menstruation. Those opposed to abortion do not argue that the egg lost during a period is the death of a human being. Our contention is this: what is made when sperm and egg unite is a new hum...

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...

The Columbus Dispatch today ran a story about the Personhood initiative's arrival in the land of the Buckeyes. The article also referenced other recent Ohio efforts against abortion, such as the Heartbeat Bill . What leaped off of my screen, though, was the first comment following the piece: It's unfortunate with 9% unemployment, children and adults starving in the street, people losing their homes, crime rates increasing, and corporations buying our politicians, these people are fighting to make abortion illegal. We have freedom of religion in this country, but they want to impose their religious ideology on us, in this secular nation. People can't find jobs, and children go without food. The most important thing on their mind is making abortion illegal. Jesus would be appalled at these people. Don't believe me? Read the Holy Bible. Jesus never spoke about abortion. But he did speak a lot about helping the poor and the homeless. - Toni Goodman Here's an experim...

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This morning, after settling into my comfy office chair and firing up my laptop, I found myself stunned by the video below. Be warned. What you are about to see is truly terrifying. Watching the clip, I couldn't help but be reminded of the tragic tale of Hugo Tale Yax , the homeless hero neglected by New Yorkers last year as he lay dying. My first response: sheer horror. To watch a toddler's body crushed beneath large vans is terrifying, but to watch unconcerned citizens stroll by idly causes an even deeper dread of disbelief. I wanted to believe this was a hoax. I even checked Snopes.com to be sure. I didn't want to believe man has lost so much of his mannishness that he would treat the plight of a dying child with such cavalier coolness. But then I remembered: business as usual will continue in America today even though 3,000+ children like Yue Yue are crying out for help. This is not new. And this led to my second response: Why did I find myself cringing more and s...

It's nearing 7:00 a.m., and I've finally given up on the notion of returning to dreamland--a vain pursuit begun nearly two hours ago when I stirred awake for some unknown reason. Now I find myself in the soon-to-be nursery accompanied by a Turtle Twilight casting green constellations on the ceiling and other sundry baby paraphernalia. It is truly hard for me to believe that at any moment a newborn will be occupying this room. A third little person will come into our home not as a guest, but as a permanent member of the family. From this perspective of fatherhood--knowing my baby only via ultrasound images, doppler heartbeats, reading to him/her, and feeling him/her roll around with my hand as I did moments ago before leaving the bed--it can seem tempting to idealize my baby. I'm not only speaking of imagining this tot to be the most adorable, most intelligent (as most parents are wont to do), but I mean thinking that somehow the beautiful little face we're about to...