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<\/em>by Rebekah O’Brien<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was first published at LifeSiteNews<\/a> on March 26, 2013 and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

I had only been working for LifeSiteNews for a few weeks when a friend of mine came for a visit. She’s one of my best friends, and she’s an extraordinary person, full of love and compassion. She is also pro-abortion.<\/p>\n

As the social media coordinator, I have the responsibility of finding stories on LifeSiteNews.com and posting them to Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n

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I spend a lot of time reading articles. While my friend was visiting, I was reading an article that contained the illustration displayed here, of a D&E abortion of a 23 week old baby.<\/p>\n

My friend looked over my shoulder and gasped.<\/p>\n

“What are you LOOKING at?” she asked, horrified.<\/p>\n

“That’s an abortion,” I answered plainly.<\/p>\n

“But, that’s a baby!” she exclaimed. “That doesn’t happen!”<\/p>\n

“That’s a 23 week abortion. That happens quite frequently, actually.”<\/p>\n

I tried to remain calm.<\/p>\n

She’s not stupid. Really, honestly, she isn’t. She’s actually incredibly intelligent, educated. She has a degree.<\/p>\n

I truly believe that my friend has been deceived.<\/p>\n

How else could an intelligent, loving individual be completely “pro-choice”?<\/p>\n

Deception.<\/em><\/p>\n

People are told what they want to hear, that it’s “just a blob of tissue,” or they’re told, “abortion is OK in certain circumstances,” and most importantly, they’re told “abortion is a\u00a0woman’s right<\/em>.” But when they are presented with the reality that what they thought was a blob of tissue was actually a baby, a human being, a lot of them change their minds. Yes,\u00a0a lot<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She just stared at the illustration with pain in her eyes.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if I’m OK with\u00a0that<\/em>.” She said with finality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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