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I have been pro-life since my first encounter with a preborn baby as a high school sophomore in a biology class in 1963. From that moment onward, I have not been able to comprehend how any rational person could credibly deny that we are looking at a fellow human being.
Consequently, I was profoundly shocked as several liberal states began increasing legal access to abortion in the late '60s and early '70s. I was, along with tens of millions of my fellow Americans, dismayed when the U.S. Supreme Court tried to take the abortion issue out of the hands of the American people in the infamous Roe v. Wade (1973) decision legalizing abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
Like tens of millions of my fellow countrymen, my heart was further anguished when the number of abortions nationally skyrocketed to approximately 1.5 million annually by 1975. I was an early volunteer in the pro-life army which sought to defend our unborn fellow citizens who were under such sustained lethal assault.
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Consequently, I was profoundly shocked as several liberal states began increasing legal access to abortion in the late '60s and early '70s. I was, along with tens of millions of my fellow Americans, dismayed when the U.S. Supreme Court tried to take the abortion issue out of the hands of the American people in the infamous Roe v. Wade (1973) decision legalizing abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
Like tens of millions of my fellow countrymen, my heart was further anguished when the number of abortions nationally skyrocketed to approximately 1.5 million annually by 1975. I was an early volunteer in the pro-life army which sought to defend our unborn fellow citizens who were under such sustained lethal assault.
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Being pro-Life: The long road ahead
May God give us the wisdom and perseverance to keep our nation from continuing the practice of child sacrifice which they emphatically call abortion
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