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“Begin with the End in Mind”
- Stephen Covey, Habit #2 of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

What is the end goal when you talk about abortion with someone?

Last week, I wrote about how important it is to talk about abortion in your everyday life. This week I would like to talk about the end goals of talking about abortion with people.

What are we actually trying to accomplish?

I suspect that we all have some idea of what the end should be. I also suspect that it varies a lot from person to person.

If we know exactly what we are trying to achieve then we be able achieve it much more effectively, right?

Right.

What are your goals?

When you go into a conversation about abortion what are your goals?

I want to learn from your wisdom.

Even if you haven’t had much experience talking about abortion, I’d love to hear your opinion on what the end goal is!

Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think the best goal is! 

My next post will draw from all the comments left here and from my experiences to come up with the best end goal(s).

This post is from a series entitled “Talk About It.” This series is about how to spread the pro-life message through your personal relationships. Sign-up HERE to get future articles in this series delivered to your inbox.

This is the first post in a series entitled “Talk About It.” This series will focus on how to spread the pro-life message through your personal relationships.

Here at SFLI, we are big proponents of utilizing your personal contacts to spread the pro-life message.

It can be easy to get caught up in wanting to reach ‘the masses.’ In fact, talking about abortion in a blog post, letter to the editor, sidewalk chalking or by posting fliers is usually the default and sometimes the easiest.

However, the fact remains that your personal sphere of influence is where you can have the most impact. Seriously though, when was the last time a flier really moved you to action?

Let’s think about it for a moment.

What got you involved in the pro-life movement?

Was it a flier?

Was it a blog post or facebook status?

Was it sidewalk chalk?

Probably not…

So, what got you involved in the pro-life movement?

The first answer I usually get to this is something like… “I believe life begins at conception and I think it’s important need to protect innocent life” This is a nice answer, but it doesn’t really anser the question that I’m asking.

I’m not asking what made you ‘think pro-life things’ but rather, what made you ‘do pro-life things.’

For most people, the answer ultimately comes back to a person. For most people, it usually comes back to a person who invited them to do more. That person is usually someone they already have a relationship with.

I’m guessing this was the case for you. It sure was for me (and most people I talk to).

Recognizing this is very powerful.

Talk About It

So, what does this tell you?

It tells me that the simple act of talking about abortion more can have a profound impact. It tells me that just talking about it can have a bigger impact than most of us ever expected.

The great thing about this is that just talking about it doesn’t require a ton of time. It doesn’t require huge efforts. It doesn’t require a big change in your life.

You just have to do it.

Work it into your daily life.

You talk to people normally, right?

Right.

But How?

How do you talk about it?

How do you bring it up?

How do you make sure you know what you’re talking about?

These are all things that I’m going to cover in this series.

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What do you want to know?

Is there anything in particular that you would like me to cover in this series? Please leave a comment below and let me know!

Steve Jobs should have been aborted.

His mother was too young to support a child.

His mother didn’t have much support.

His mother didn’t have the resources to support a child.

His mother, no doubt suffered shame and ridicule for being pregnant.

His mother didn’t have the money to support a child.

His mother was a college student. His mother was unmarried.

Steve Jobs should have been aborted.

If Steve had been in the womb in 2011, this still would have likely been the year of his death. In fact, the day he died there were 3,322 other Americans who died that very same day.

Those 3,322 other Americans did not receive the same attention as this one man. Only a small minority of people posted about them on Twitter and Facebook. Those posts were largely ignored and rarely retweeted.

But, of course, they didn’t give us the iPhone.

Those 3,322 other Americans did not die from a disease.

Steve Jobs’ life was cut short by disease yet over 3,322 babies’ lives were cut much shorter by legal abortion.

Jobs should have been aborted, but he wasn’t.

Looking at the data, he was the perfect candidate for being aborted. His mom was in the core demographic of reproductive profiteers (abortionists).

There are probably two big reasons that Steve’s little fetal body was not dismembered back in 1954.

The first, and most obvious, is that abortion was illegal.

Abortion was illegal, but it wasn’t totally inaccessible.

Abortions happened back then and they were usually done in doctor’s offices. They were just done very quietly.

Nonetheless, I’m guessing that the fact that abortion was illegal had a pretty strong influence on Steve’s birth mother.

Secondly, I’m guessing that Steve’s birth mother was very brave.

It takes a lot of guts to be a birth mother. It takes a special, strong woman to know that her child can be better taken care of by someone else.

I’d like to pause here and say thank you.

To Steve’s birth mother, to all birth mothers and to all mothers. Being a birth mother or just a mother takes a lot of courage!

Steve Jobs should NOT have been aborted!

I’m glad he survived until birth.

I’m glad he wasn’t aborted, but I’m deeply saddened by the fact that so many are still aborted every single day.

I’ve been told by pro-choice people that I should have been aborted. They were mad that I thought that abortion (aka fetal-dismemberment aka child-killing) was wrong.

What they meant was that they wished I was dead. I don’t wish that Steve Jobs was dead.

I’m very glad that he survived as long as he did. I wish that Steve was still with us. I wish that all the babies aborted the day he died, today and everyday were still with us.

Unfortunately, babies in the womb today do not have the same protections that Steve had. They have a much lower chance of survival.

Rest in Peace. Steve Jobs.

Rest in Peace. Victims of abortion.

Spread the word

A friend of mine posted on facebook regarding this subject, which is what inspired this blog post. I modified her post and put it below for you to use.

Please copy and paste the section below, click the SHARE button to the left and post it on your facebook wall! It’s on my wall already : )

In 1954, Joanne Schieble was a young unmarried college student who discovered that she was pregnant. In the 1950s, having a child out of wedlock was scandalous. She didn’t have the resources to support a child. She didn’t have the money to support a child. She was too young to support a child. She was the perfect candidate for a quiet abortion.

Joanne opted, instead, to give birth to the baby and place him for adoption.

And so it was that in 1955, a California couple named Paul and Clara Jobs adopted a baby boy, born out of wedlock, whom they named Steven.

Choose Life.
Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs.

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By Michael Yoerger

Those who have gone before us – our parents, grandparents, and others – generally have one piece of advice in common.

This advice is that we should realize how short life is, and do our very best to make the most of the time we have.

Admittedly, those who have not yet come into old age may find it difficult to see the full value of this wisdom; doing so requires nothing less than having lived a lifelong journey.

However, there are certain moments in all of our lives when the reality of what is most important begins to shine through.

For me, one such moment occurred in late December 2005 as I was driving to school. It was early morning, the road was covered in ice, and I was probably going a bit faster than I should have been.

Before I had any time to react, I realized that my car was spinning out of control atop a hill – on one side the ditch was a gentle 10 foot slope, and on the other was a sharp 50 foot drop.

Within this single moment, one overpowering set of thoughts overtook my mind.

I thought to myself, “So, this is the end? Somehow, I always thought I would achieve more. I never thought I would die this young. Am I happy with what I’ve accomplished?”

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By Lauren Kilcommons

We’re probably the first generation in our nation’s history that’s actually become more open about abortion. While it has always been around, the social stigma attached to it has decreased significantly.

Art is used as a medium to create discussion. A variety of different media may be used by artists to reflect on past experiences that have had a significant impact on their lives, and use them as a source of inspiration.

Abortion is one issue that has been memorialized and commodified through art. It has both created discourse and attracted criticism from artists and activists alike.

Singer and songwriter Ben Folds’ girlfriend had an abortion in high school, which he addresses in one of his songs entitled “Brick”. While Folds did not necessarily take a position on abortion, he did say, “I just wanted the song to speak for itself…I just wanted to reflect what it feels like.” [2]

The lyrics read: “The world is sleeping/I am numb” and then later in the song, “I am alone”. Read More→