Our Survivors Campus Life Team has been traveling for about three days now, and we just took our first stop to reach out to college students in Oklahoma. Today started out as a normal kind of day. I set up a pro-life info table while the rest of my team set up signs and began to distribute literature. Our experience at this college was probably the best this semester! We handed out over two-thousand pieces of literature to the students and had amazing conversations.
One young woman came up to my table and seemed interested.
“Hi, how are you?” I asked her.
“I’m doing well,” she answered in a sweet southern accent. She was looking at the baby models on the table and then told me that she taught high school students how to have “safe sex”. I asked her what she thought of birth control and the use of condoms. She thought they were fine and dandy. I pointed out that condoms are never one-hundred percent effective because they can break, and that even the tiniest hole in a condom could result in pregnancy.
“Well yeah, I agree, but there is always birth control, and that doesn’t do anything wrong, right?” she asked.
Then I explained to her that even birth control wasn’t one hundred percent effective either. I also told her that some forms of contraception can cause abortion since the pills thin the lining of the uterus.
She looked at me with disbelief, “Are you serious?”
“Yes, I am totally serious, and Planned Parenthood is one of the biggest abortion providers in the whole United States.” She looked down and began to finger the literature I had placed on the table, “I am a volunteer for Planned Parenthood.”
“Oh, really?” That definitely took me by surprise.
“Yeah, but I am going to leave them now that I know what they really do.” I was wondering if my words had actually changed her mind.
“I am definitely pro-life now, thank you so much for telling me these things.”
I mentioned to her that for the upcoming election she could vote for the most pro-life politician possible.
“Well, what is Obama’s view on abortion?” she asked.
I sighed to myself, “He’s not a pro-life politician, in fact, he is probably the most pro-abortion president that this country has ever seen!”
She raised her eyebrows in surprise, “Are you serious?”
“Yeah I am! He voted against a bill when he was a senator that would protect babies if they survived an abortion. He said, and I quote, ‘The bill is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.’ Would you vote for someone who votes against that two times?”
She thought about it for at least a second. “Hell no! I am registered as an independant so I am going to vote for whoever I want, and that person will be Mitt Romney. Sure I may not agree with some of the things that he says, but if he is pro-life and not voting against laws that can save a baby’s life, I will vote for him!”
She took every piece of literature that I had on my table, “I am going to read this, and I am going to pass on this valuable information to all of my friends that volunteer with Planned Parenthood!”
We shook hands and she went on to spread the truth about abortion to her friends. Out of all of the semesters I have been with Survivors, I think this was the most successful discussion I have ever encountered! It’s not everyday that you can say that a Planned Parenthood volunteer just switched sides seconds after learning what Planned Parenthood actually does with our money.
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