The following comes from a May 2 story by Josh Brahm on LifeSiteNews.
This last weekend I led a Right to Life of Central CA sponsored Justice For All seminar and outreach at Fresno City College. We had a great turnout at the outreach but a lot of our volunteers wanted to listen in on other dialogues before trying it themselves, so I spent part of the morning doing one of my favorite things: talking to pro-choice people.
Allow me to show you the outreach tools we set up.
We had a poll table that asks, “Should abortion remain legal?”
We had another table that said, “Take our equal rights survey.”
We also set up Justice For All’s “Where Do You Draw the Line” exhibit, which holds a basic fetal development chart with a free speech paper underneath for people to interact with.
That’s the exhibit I was standing in front of while having conversations that morning. I was actually in the middle of a good dialogue with someone when I was interrupted. The woman I was talking to first, believed that women should have the right to do whatever they want with anything inside of their bodies. I was asking her about Thalidomide based on the thought experiment that Dr. Rich Poupard originally published and that my brother Timothy later expanded on, when an older man loudly interrupted that Thalidomide had nothing to do with abortion. I turned to engage him and the woman I was originally speaking with quickly left.
I tried not to show my annoyance as I put out my hand and introduced myself to this new person. He told me his name was Howard and that he was a biology professor at Fresno City College, and proceeded to go on a long diatribe about how misleading our exhibit was. (This was the first of many long rants. I probably did about 15% of the talking in this entire dialogue. He repeated himself a lot, so I’ll just relay the main points he made and how I responded.)
Howard’s first rant was about the fetal development exhibit. He dropped his credentials several times while complaining about our use of biology on the sign.
I asked, “As a biology professor, do you disagree with any of the biological evidence we’ve placed on the exhibit?”
Howard responded, “No, it’s all accurate. It’s basic 2nd grade biology!”
I smiled and said, “I agree with you about that.”
Howard’s concern was that we were turning a philosophical issue into a biological one.
I told Howard that I agreed that abortion is not merely a biological issue, and then I pointed to the “human rights” language on the top right corner of the exhibit.
I said, “There are biological pictures on the exhibit, but we’re asking a philosophical question. We’re asking when human rights should begin, and we’re asking people to draw a line to signify when they think those human rights should be recognized. It’s a philosophical question about rights and value, not a biological question about when an organism’s life begins.”
Howard complained that when people walk by, they will assume we’re only talking about biology….
Howard begrudgingly admitted that our outreach tools were obviously working because they not only had stopped a lot of people, (there were about eight conversations going on around us,) but it also stopped him when he had originally planned on ignoring us….
To read the entire story, click here.
Awesome! God bless Josh Brahm! Wow what a courageous young man and all those who helped with this! Its pretty neat! I like it! We can combat the planned parenthood booths with these positive booths! Every college should have them. This is very encouraging! Lets continue praying and supporting these pro-lifers. They really put themselves out there to save more unborn. God bless them!
Knowledge of the truth is power, lets empower this culture!
Many colleges won’t allow our pro life tables. Or if they do, they regulate us to an area with low foot traffic. Let’s hear it for free speech…….oh, that what the head of Harvard spouted about allowing a Black Mass…..things are very askewed in academia.
Things are only going to get worse for Judeo-Christians while the culture exists that is obviously headed in a direction that Patrick Madrid said on his talk radio show today is towards a really radical utilititarian mode that includes state-coerced euthanasia, among many other evils. And that is because of the drastic drop in the population rate, approved of by those who’re always proclaiming to anyone who’ll listen that there’s TOO MANY people STILL, despite all of their so-called “progress” in reducing the number of people extant. There were other points made on his show, but he also dropped this bombshell of a newsstory: Harvard University is going to allow a PUBLIC BLACK MASS as an in INSULT to the Catholic Church in this country. You read right, Harvard will allow it, and possibly to include a PUBLIC DESECRATION of the Holy Eucharist as part of the public black mass. I never thought I’d live long enough to actually hear such a story on the news, to be taken as “just” another newsstory. In fact, I never dreamed such a newsflash would ever be made, just too fantastic to happen. But it happened today, May 7th, 2014. Very disturbing stuff, people, heading for apocalyptic territory. Holy Virgin Immaculate please pray for us. God bless all, markrite
Wow markrite are you sure that it happened? I did not see it or hear about it anywhere except here by your post. Indeed this world is getting worse, I pray that God has mercy on us all and I pray for our youth. Many are taught to not reason well and they will be the ones suffering even greater as they face this world should they choose to reason outside of the box and choose Christ. Don’t be surprised if these scandals have already affected many of our youth, they are taught to bow down to this mentality. They are fearing to not think for themselves but they are tricked into secular mentality. Our youth are afraid to speak up. Yes folks its true, I’m speaking of the ones with morals. They don’t want confrontation and many seek approval so many do not speak up their morals anymore for fear of being persecuted. They are being taught that if they have morals, that it is criminal. So more and more parents of faith, will have to face their biggest nightmares, many are losing their children to the secular. Parents are praying a lot more but many will feel that their prayers are not being answered. Why? Because of the sins that are becoming the norm. This is a dry season folks. Of course we should not give up but just know that it’s here. If you think you have done everything right by God when raising your kids, then don’t beat yourself up when one of your kids goes astray. The secular influences are the rule of the land right now, and if you think you need to hide your children, then how will they learn to combat those evils when they have to fend for themselves.
Abeca, whenever I read anything somebody post’s here, which I have not yet heard of before, such as the story markrite has just informed us about, I tend to immediately do a web search for it. In this case I put the words “public black mass harvard”, (minus the quotation marks), into my web browser and instantly various news stories about this popped up! We should all use the web to our advantage while we still can! If we watch the Main Stream Liberal media for our daily news, especially here in California, we are more than likely going to know more about the intimacies of Hollywood celebrities than we will about our next door neighbor!
Here’s another recent news story most American’s are probably unfamiliar with; The UN has called the Vatican’s pro-life views as promoting torture. The Vatican has in return, responded with outrage!
Josh Brahm is an expert at respectfully dialoguing with those who are either antagonistic or apathetic toward the pro-life message. We now have numerous bright and energetic young people, such as Mr. Brahm, who are effectively enlightening individuals to the reality of just how selfish, hedonistic, and murderous the sexual revolution really is! The devil looks disgusting when his disguise is removed!