around the website. Ten minutes after discussing my reasons for being pro-life, I took a pregnancy test, which came back positive. At the time, I was unmarried, a freshman in college, and only 18 years old... I thank God for your website and that He gave me the opportunity to get my facts straight before facing the biggest change of my life...
This young mother is not alone. All over the country, there are people who are “pro-life” because they’re Christians (and “Christians are supposed to be pro-life”). Perhaps they’ve even been to pro-life marches, rallies, or concerts, where they’ve been urged to be more involved, but have never received anything in the way of education. They go home as ignorant as when they came. The pro-life movement is plagued by activities which put the cart before the horse, hammering away at conclusions (“It’s a Child, Not a Choice”), without demonstrating why those conclusions are correct. All the while, we wonder why more people don’t get involved. Maybe it’s because they’ve never been adequately convinced that abortion is really as bad as some people say it is! And a mere lack of involvement is actually the best case scenario. What happens when abortion-ignorant, Christian teenagers become pregnant out of wedlock? Do they bravely confess their sin to their parents, church, and community or does abortion’s ability to conceal one sin with another suddenly become a more palatable “solution”. As the email above indicates, this scenario is by no means hypothetical. What if this young woman hadn’t visited Abort73 before finding out she was pregnant? She’s already conceded to how little she knew and how vulnerable she would have been to abortion. When a mother at the Pro-Life Music Festival was offered some information about Abort73.com, and told that it’s a website to help educate students about abortion, she replied, “Oh, I don’t have to worry about that, my daughter is already pro-life”. That is an all-too-common, and dangerous, response. It’s possible her daughter has a real handle on the case against abortion, but chances are she doesn’t. Chances are, if she were pressed, she would have a hard time demonstrating to someone else that abortion is, in fact, an act of violence which kills an innocent human being. And if she can’t articulate the case to someone else, how could she articulate the case to herself, should she suddenly find herself pregnant?
So far this year, 169,386 different people have visited Abort73.com (we had 34,170 unique visitors through the first six months last year). Since the first of January, Abort73 visitors have viewed almost a million pages of content, and almost every one of those pages is aimed at educating them, not about an organization or project, but about abortion itself. Activism begins with education, and virtually everyone who is involved in any kind of steady, pro-life activity can point back to a decisive moment in their own life when abortion first became real to them, real enough to compel them to action. Why, then, does education play such a small role in most pro-life activity? For whatever the reason, you can be assured that Abort73 remains committed to educating large numbers of students about abortion, knowing that there will ultimately be no change in behavior, and no change in public policy, until there is first a change in understanding.
comparing a woman’s choice to abort to Eve’s choice to eat the fruit, is essentially granting that abortion is sin. The argument goes like this. God left Eve free to sin by not preventing her from eating the fruit. We should leave women free to sin by not preventing them from aborting their children. What is totally ignored is the fact that while God did not prevent Adam and Eve from sinning, He neither spared them from the consequence of their sinful choice. What came of their decision? The condemnation and death of all humanity, a lifetime of toil and labor for all of mankind, pain in child birth, relational strife and exile from the garden of Eden. If abortion is again outlawed in the U.S., women will still be “free” to break the law and have an abortion, just as Eve was free to break God’s law and eat the fruit. The difference will be in the legal consequences which result from that decision. While Dr. Mollenkott tries to use Eve’s example as an argument in favor of unrestricted abortion, it is a scenario much better suited for illustrating exactly the opposite. It is right and good for appropriate legal consequences to be attached to immoral choices just as it was right for God to attach legal consequences to Eve’s immoral choice.
