The Countercultural Times

Hey! It's Rachel again. Of course, you already knew that because I'm the only one writing this blog. Once every month I'll share an update that's more formal, but as I can, I'll also write whatever has been happening or something that is on my mind.  If you read these regularly, you can tell what is a regular update and what is a informal post. This is the latter.  Last week I talked to a friend who wanted to know how our week in Washington was. I didn't know where to start.  Then I read a great article (click on the title below) that shared stories from myself and 5 of my colleagues: A ‘male feminist called me a piece of s***’: pro-life youth share horror stories from Women’s March “The feminists I saw … both male and female, rejected both of the virtues belonging to their respective sexes,” he said. “I saw women yelling shrilly at others, calling them nasty names and one even [attempted] to sexually assault my colleague. [I saw] women who had no respec...

“I TRIED to change her mind, but it was YOU who did!” On Friday, January 5 th , my colleagues and I were at the local abortion facilities in Columbus, reaching the women going inside. It was a painfully cold morning! At “Founders Women’s Health Center,” one of Columbus’s two surgical abortion facilities, a couple of ladies pulled in the parking lot. They did not get out of the car, but sat in their vehicle - apparently getting ready to head inside the facility where one precious preborn child would be violently torn apart in her mother’s womb, never leaving there alive. My colleague and friend Joseph, our Operations Officer, began talking to the young girl in the passenger seat. The ladies opened the doors of the car to hear Joseph better, even though the weather was so cold.  Joseph began to appeal to her for the life of her preborn child – telling her about the beauty of the life inside of her, how the abortionist’s forceps would end this innocent life, of...