Go check this one out at Inside Catholic.
Jen Fulwiler writes about her trip to the March for Life.
Of all the things I remember about the Texas March for Life in Austin last January, the memory that stands out the most is the look on the faces of the counter-protesters who followed us along Congress Avenue and down to the capitol that frosty morning. When I glanced over to see the source of the epithets that were being screamed at us, I met the eyes of one young woman wearing a black bandana over the bottom half of her face. She happened to look over and meet my gaze, and in her eyes I saw one thing: hatred.
I was caught off guard when my gut response to her rage-filled glare was one of sympathy. In fact, I realized as she turned away to continue yelling angry pro-choice slogans that I knew the source of the rage behind her eyes and had even felt it recently.
Check out the rest of the story here.
January 26, 2010 at 8:06 pm
If Tim Tebow's pro-life superbowl ad gets through, we can expect a lot more of this.
January 26, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Just to clarify, Jen is referring to the Texas March for Life, not the March for Life in Washington.
I really enjoyed this article. Even though I have read tons of Catholic literature on abortion and contraception, Jen brings a perspective that is a bit different than anything I have heard before, and that expresses things in a new way that I hadn't quite considered.
January 27, 2010 at 12:44 pm
I recently have become entangled in a debate ensuing from a facebook poll concerning abortion and actually began laughing at I sat at my computer reading the personal attacks hurled at me from the pro-abortion crowd.
I have since blocked and reported a few people as they were looking at my profile and bringing my personal information into the discussion– at time even slandering my character.
I think it is because once the argument is reduced to the reality of the situation (that the unborn are necessarily human) they are unable to defend their position and see it for what it is, a selfish greed toward "freedom."