Seth & Aubrie Drayer

“That demon laughed and increased the suction. My baby wouldn't come.” My eyes flitted to the brick edifice behind the woman, where other parents’ babies were being killed as she spoke. She continued, “He went inside with a scalpel. He cut him up. And he came out in two pieces. Then afterwards, they said, ‘You want Kool-Aid or cookies?’” Thirty years after her abortion, this mother continued to grieve. But the long winter of her pain found joy on a spring morning when she returned to rescue the life of another from the same man who’d dismembered her baby. She’d been passing by Founder’s Women’s Health Center in Columbus when she saw our team with signs showing abortion victims. One sign in particular caught her eye. It read, “Dr. Blank Kills Children.” She remembered that man and stopped to tell us of her encounter with him decades prior. As she was sharing her story, a couple with whom I had spoken earlier came out of the abortion facility to sit in their car. Seeing them...

I submit the following with grave humility.  A most unthinkable tragedy took place Friday.   I know that some will see this and cry foul with charges of political opportunism.  But this is intended not as a commentary on the little boys and girls killed in the Newtown school but on myself and the rest of the nation watching. Indeed, as I tucked my own one-year-old and her assortment of stuffed animals into bed later that night, I couldn't imagine the pain twenty families are now facing with the loss of their little ones. There has been a thought, though, I cannot shake since my Facebook news feed lit up with exclamations of incredulity Friday.  Reading statuses bearing references to "innocent children" and an "unspeakable crime," a thought haunted me: Twenty children died and the whole world was watching, while on the same day 3,300 children died and few paid any notice. Why are we rightfully horrified by the thought of an intruder firing bullets into...

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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