Mary Washington University is a public college in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It’s down the street from SFLA’s headquarters and a few miles away from where I live in Fredericksburg. It has a beautiful campus and seems like a really good school where Students for Life also has an awesome and active student group. Plus, they sometimes leave their track unlocked and open to the public, so as a runner, they win huge points from me.
That’s why it was so disturbing to hear from a few of their students last week. I was on Mary Washington’s campus last Wednesday, October 24th. We had set up over 200,000 baby socks to show how many babies would be killed by abortion in one semester. Most people engaged us in conversation and talked about how horrifying that is. Even some pro-choice students agreed with us on issues like regulating abortion facilities or prohibiting abortions at least after five months (late-term abortions). We even recruited more pro-life students for the group!
But… I also heard from some students who told me that they didn’t care if infanticide happened. These people were trying to make the case that “abortions” should be legal until eight months post-birth because that’s when a baby has a personality. Like, would we even call it an abortion at that point? What if I run into this guy at a restaurant in Fredericksburg and I’m having a bad day? He might decide I don’t have a personality and then proceed to hack me apart with a chainsaw. After all, he said all life is worthless.
Another girl, who for all I know lives in the apartment next to mine, started screeching and swearing at me, claiming I shouldn’t have an opinion on the issue because I am a man. She had pretty obviously lost the argument we were having about abortion and thought screaming might help, I guess. I pointed out that there were female Students for Life leaders who agreed with me, so she moved on to them and repeated her pro-38th-week-gestation abortion arguments.
Luckily, the majority of college students are pro-life, but I’m still a bit worried. As a resident of Fredericksburg, I now know for certain that there are people, in my neighborhood, like this guy who said personality determines when life begins, or the girl who YELLED AT ME for being 1. A man 2. Pro-life.
I think I’ll be looking over my shoulder a bit more in Fredericksburg just in case my personality isn’t good enough to give me human rights that day.
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