The Countercultural Times

Last week, our team had just begun setting up signs outside of a local high school, preparing to talk to the students as they walked home from school. While setting up signs across the street from the bus’s exit, I heard three women behind my back (apparently bus drivers) talking among themselves about me. “Who does she think she is, that she can bring this stuff [referring to pictures of the babies] here at a school for everyone to see?” “She’s just here to show what kind of psychotic human being she is.” They continued to chat back and forth. As I finished putting the signs up, I wondered about the best way to respond. I turned to cross the street as I looked up towards them and smiled, pretending that I had not heard a word they said. I greeted them and asked for their thoughts on abortion. One woman named Tina, began defending abortion in the case of a baby being conceived in rape. I explained the logical conclusion of her position, and posed a question: ...

Coretz stood motionless not 10 feet from me. It was not his presence that was notable, but rather his countenance: stopped dead in his tracks; eyes filled with horror, unbelief, and pity; jaw dropped; staring . Staring at our JumboTron TV screen that showed a late-term baby being decapitated during an abortion. He glanced around him as apathetic people walked on past, with a look on his face that asked if this could be real.  I was conducting outreach on the campus of the University of Toledo, OH, along with  the rest of the Created Equal team . I introduced myself and asked him if he thought abortion was ever OK . Cortez had seen the horror of abortion and his heart was beginning to be appropriately softened towards the plight of the preborn. However, he said that abortion was OK if the baby would be raised in poverty. He claimed that bringing a child into an unstable financial environment was worse than having that same child killed by abortion. As I...