Pro-life question

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Yesterday I traveled to a city about 40 miles from my home. On my way back from my destination on a well trafficked street, I saw these young women wearing Planned Parenthood t-shirts trying to recruit youngish women (college students and 20 somethings) to sign one of their petitions. They did not approach me because I haven’t been in my 20s in over 30 years.

I basically walked on past them… didn’t do anything… Wondering if this was wise. I am a very shy person and public debate is not something I enjoy. However, I felt really bad about them literally preying on younger women who are clueless about PP’s whole agenda. .

If you were in this situation what would you have done?

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As a younger woman, I was fully aware of what PP was. It may be that they were targeting younger women not because they are ignorant, childish fools, but because they are selling abortion and that’s a service that women who haven’t been in their twenties for thirty years don’t generally have much use for. Besides, they’ve pretty much successfully brainwashed that generation a long time ago. I understand that the next generation is collectively less tolerant of abortion than their mothers’.
 
I would have looked at what they wanted me to sign and then probably disagreed. If they were open to a nice discussion, ok otherwise keep walking.
 
Maybe ask them if they’d considered that they used to be fetuses once. Could they try to see things from that point of view?
 
I would have walked by as well. Public debate is not my forte either because I choose not to engage in debate in a public forum. I think God uses all of us in a different manner and perhaps you can help the pro life cause by praying or in some other way as I do.

It IS sad to see PP push their agenda so readily to our youth.
 
I would walk by as well. Since there was only 1 of you and more than 1 of them, you probably would have just fueled their fire. Unless a genuine prompting of the Holy Spirit gives you the exact words, there is not much you can say to change their minds
 
I think I might have asked them to 'splain it to me like I didn’t understand what they were pushing and maybe by asking questions the younger girls could get the message and avoid them like the plague…
 
Come to think of it, if these women are in their 20s, they are not having anything new pushed at them. By 15, most women’s minds are made up about their stance on abortion.
 
Often the best thing to do is continue to continue walking. People who are actively recruiting others to their cause are not generally open to hearing a different side, especially if you are uncomfortable with public debate. We are not called to contention.
What we do have is the power of intercessory prayer.
A simple prayer may be “Lord, please be with these women to turn their hearts to you. May they learn that life is a gift to be treasured.”

Nobody needs to know that you are praying as you walk by them. If I am not in the position to speak to somebody, I may ask God to give somebody else the words he/she needs to hear. Perhaps one of the young women being approached will have the right words, and those words will be better received from her than somebody older who may appear to be lecturing or not understanding what young women today go through (as if each generation hasn’t been through the same issues).

After I voted in the last election, the workers for a certain candidate who barely lost re-election said “I hope you voted for women’s rights.” I replied, “I voted for human rights.”
 
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