September 27, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – I have been working for LifeSiteNews for just over a year. And it's time to tell you why I've learned to believe in what I do.
You see, at first, I almost didn't.
It isn't that I wasn't pro-life. I was. But I've always been the apathetic type. You can believe in something and not “impose it on others.”
I wasn't active at all in my community, I didn't know much about crisis pregnancy centres. I didn't contemplate adoption either, other than that it was something people got involved in when they couldn't have kids but wanted them.
Don't get me wrong, the thought of abortion really disturbed me, but it was easier not to think about it. So I didn't. Even after I was hired, I tried not to absorb what I was reading.
Then one day, about three weeks into the job, I read a message from one of our Facebook fans.
The message was short, containing a question:
“Have you ever seen the pro-life film ‘Eclipse of Reason’? It's very powerful and you can see the whole thing on YouTube.”
Our fan had attached a link to the video. I clicked it. I thought, “I suppose I should be informed. I should know what I'm fighting.”
Nothing could have prepared me for what I would see.
The narrator, former abortionist Bernard Nathanson, describes what is occurring as the viewer watches. It is an incredibly graphic video. His description goes like this:
“And now the abortionist is reaching into the uterus with the grasping instrument to dismember the child. Piece by piece, the extremities are pulled away. Then portions of the back, the spine, and the torso….”
I think you get the picture.
I didn't close my eyes. To this day, I wonder why I didn't close my eyes. But I watched.
I watched a video of a second trimester abortion that took place in the mid 80s.
I was born in the mid 80s.
This little boy would be around my age today. And I watched a video of his death. I watched a man in a white coat kill him. Legally.
That night I didn't sleep. I wept. I wept harder and louder and longer than I ever had. Because this little boy, with a soul, and a life ahead of him, had been killed, and I watched the footage. And he was one of hundreds of millions of babies that have been killed by abortion.
When I finally stopped crying, I realized that my new job was too big for me. I hated abortion. I hated my job.
I hated my job for about five hours. And then suddenly I realized that my job was crucial. I had a part to play, and that part is with LifeSiteNews.
About a month after I watched that video, I played a small part, along with my colleagues at LifeSiteNews, in saving the life of a little girl in Nevada.
I loved my job that day.
And that was the day I realized why I believe in what I do. Because the pro-life movement is a life-saving movement.
LifeSiteNews tells the truth. Truth opens eyes. It changes hearts. The truth of what happened to that little boy whose murder was captured on video almost thirty years ago changed me from an apathetic pro-lifer into a pro-life activist.
Every single one of us has a role to play in ending abortion and saving lives. What is your role?
I hope you too believe in the life saving and culture shaping power of truth.
And I hope you will support the truth-in-news service of LifeSiteNews with your most generous donation today. Because I have seen first hand that saving lives starts with speaking truth.
Right now we are in the middle of our fall fundraising campaign. We have to raise a minimum of $150,000 by October 1, simply to keep this organization running. Please be as generous as you can.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support, your encouragement and your prayers. We need them.
God bless you.