An Unprecedented Opportunity for Hearts and Minds to be Changed
Day 13
We live in a remarkable moment. Right now, for the first time, the world is starting to see. As series of undercover videos has radically unsettled an abortion-tolerating public. The videos depict Planned Parenthood abortion clinic workers trafficking in fetal remains of unborn human beings. The videos also depict abortion.
Pictures have the potential to change how people feel about the practice while facts and arguments can change how they think. Both are vital in changing behavior. Journalist and criminology professor Mike Adams, a former pro-choice atheist, explains how “seeing” changed his perspective years ago:
I am one of those former pro-choicers persuaded solely by the images. After I saw an abortion procedure via ultrasound no further argument was necessary. The case was closed. The film showed me that pro-abortion choice advocates had been lying to me about the ‘blob of tissue’.
Mike is not alone. He describes how a non-Christian friend has also begun to see.
I have been involved in a four-year conversation on abortion with a friend of mine who is both younger and much more politically liberal than I am. At the beginning of that conversation he fully denied the humanity of the unborn and supported abortion with no restrictions whatsoever. That conversation was put on hold for three months (as it is every summer) while I was away in Colorado.
When I returned in August, my friend met me at a local shop to watch a baseball game. He sat down next to me and said, “well I’ve come a long way on the abortion issue.” He then announced that he had changed his position to pro-life with exceptions only for rape and preservation of the life of the mother. In other words, he now opposes abortion in about 98% of the cases, not 0%. I call that progress.
Naturally, I asked him what had brought about the sudden change. He looked at me and told me that it was the Planned Parenthood videos...it was the images that stirred his emotions and then changed his position.
Now more than ever, Christians must pray that the world will see abortion. We’ve been handed an opportunity to shine the light on the darkness. But we must act. Lives hang in the balance.
Pictures have the potential to change how people feel about the practice while facts and arguments can change how they think. Both are vital in changing behavior. Journalist and criminology professor Mike Adams, a former pro-choice atheist, explains how “seeing” changed his perspective years ago:
I am one of those former pro-choicers persuaded solely by the images. After I saw an abortion procedure via ultrasound no further argument was necessary. The case was closed. The film showed me that pro-abortion choice advocates had been lying to me about the ‘blob of tissue’.
Mike is not alone. He describes how a non-Christian friend has also begun to see.
I have been involved in a four-year conversation on abortion with a friend of mine who is both younger and much more politically liberal than I am. At the beginning of that conversation he fully denied the humanity of the unborn and supported abortion with no restrictions whatsoever. That conversation was put on hold for three months (as it is every summer) while I was away in Colorado.
When I returned in August, my friend met me at a local shop to watch a baseball game. He sat down next to me and said, “well I’ve come a long way on the abortion issue.” He then announced that he had changed his position to pro-life with exceptions only for rape and preservation of the life of the mother. In other words, he now opposes abortion in about 98% of the cases, not 0%. I call that progress.
Naturally, I asked him what had brought about the sudden change. He looked at me and told me that it was the Planned Parenthood videos...it was the images that stirred his emotions and then changed his position.
Now more than ever, Christians must pray that the world will see abortion. We’ve been handed an opportunity to shine the light on the darkness. But we must act. Lives hang in the balance.
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