Naaman is a commenter on this site. Here is his story:

now.gifAll of my life, I considered myself to be “pro-choice.” What choice did I have, really? I was raised in a feminist, pro-abortion, liberal family. Both my parents were members of the National Organization for Women. I grew up in NOW; I was committed. I attended every pro-abortion march or rally I could.
And I did something worse: I volunteered as an accessory to abortion.
There was an abortion clinic in Falls Church, VA, called the Commonwealth Women’s Center. Unfortunately for the clinic, it was right next door to a Catholic church. Eventually, the clinic became annoyed by the constant presence of pro-life protestors, and it sent a request for help to the local NOW chapters. We responded.
My specialty was “escort duty.” The idea was to have a number of sympathetic people escort the prospective patient from her car, across the parking lot, and into the clinic. Ideally, every escort detail was supposed to include a man or two….


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More than anything else I did as a pro-abortion activist, that “escort duty” still haunts me. Most of the women I escorted were deeply upset. At the time, I assumed the pro-life protesters were the main cause of their distress, but now I know differently. In any case, I had direct, personal contact with troubled women who were carrying new life. Instead of offering them help or hope, I lured them into the mouth of a ravenous beast that devoured their children and spit the walking-wounded women back onto the street.
Fortunately, I drifted away from pro-abortion activism when I went to college. My views hadn’t changed, though.
On Good Friday 2001 the Holy Spirit moved within me, and I was led to a true faith in Christ. We left Quakerism and became Lutheran. We started to get involved with various evangelism classes and activities. The central message of our evangelism training was that everyone matters to God. Jesus died to redeem all of humanity, not just the people who look like us, act like us, or live near us. Every single human being is so loved by God that any one of us would have been enough to send His Son to the cross. It’s hard to accept that message and still support the legalized slaughter of God’s children.

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That’s one part of my conversion. The other part came from being a father.
In 1999, my wife became pregnant with our first child. Early in the pregnancy, there were several bleeding scares. On every scare, our HMO insisted on bringing my wife in for an ultrasound. As a result, we got a good look at those early weeks of pregnancy. Also, the stress of the bleeding pulled me past any point of uncertainty about whether or not our unborn child was a “real” human being. Through God’s mercy, the bleeding all turned out to be nothing, and my son was born in 2000. Still, if God wanted to get my attention, He succeeded admirably.
Thus was I led from being a pro-abortion fanatic, hardened by a childhood of activism, into being one of those pro-lifers I used to hold in such contempt. How anyone can doubt the humanity of the unborn seems to be a mystery to me now. Of course unborn children are human! Even from a secular viewpoint, science tells us that “embryos” and “fetuses” are really just stages in human development.

The Christian perspective reinforces that human life is precious, even (or especially) within the womb. The Psalms sing about the womb as the starting point for faith, righteousness, and/or evil. In Psalm 139, the psalmist praises God for knowing him and forming him within his mother’s womb. The first chapters of Jeremiah and Luke both show us prophets who received their Godly commissions while still within the womb.

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God is King of all Creation, but He still allows us to have our free will. By using that free will to kill untold millions of children, what sort of monstrous sin have we committed? All is not lost, as 1st John tells us, because we can confess our sins and receive forgiveness. But that same passage also tells us that if we attempt to deny our sins, we are calling God a liar and His Word will not be within us. In some ways, that is the worst crime of the pro-abortionmovement. As if killing millions of children wasn’t bad enough, they portray abortion as a sacred right.
Pro-abortion activists have led women and doctors into committing the grievous sin of infanticide and then deny them the possibility of forgiveness by denying that any sin was committed.

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