Ideologues

As has been the recent custom, today at Dr. Emily the pro-choicers came out as well. They block any attempt to counsel women and have even chanted us down while we were praying and singing Christmas Carols.

Today though, it became obvious to me that many simply do not care, or cannot accept, what reality is. To her credit, one of the clinic escorts came over to engage in a polite dialogue today with me and my friend. When I showed her what a baby looks like 12 weeks after conception using a model she simply did not believe it was accurate. When I pressed her and asked her that if it was true that the fetal model I presented, which looks a lot more like a smaller version of a newborn baby, than a 'clump of cells,' is an accurate account of reality - if that would cause her to reconsider her position - she didn't respond.

My friend offered to purchase her the National Geographic (hardly a pro-life or Christian publication) documentary, "In the Womb," which illustrates fetal development, on DVD, she declined. When confronted with the cited evidence for the accuracy of such models she dismissed the embryologists claim because she thinks he works for a Catholic university. I would like to emphasize however, that I was impressed by at least a willingness to talk to us as human beings.

Oftentimes, pro-lifers will be cast as ideologues. However an ideologue is somebody who holds to a claim despite overwhelming contrary evidence. It is the pro-choicers that are ideologues - and how sad that our youngest brothers and sisters in the womb must die in part because many people simply cannot accept the overwhelming evidence.