Jezebel features a column by Gaby Dunn, writer, journalist and comedian in New York City. The title is Talking to an Abortion Clinic Protester. Her first sentence hooked me. She started by saying she fundamentally disagreed with the young lady, Sarina Duvall , but liked her very much. Gaby was doing a series called 100 Interviews, and found Sarina on Facebook, messaged her and asked to interview her.
What took place turned out to be a great conversation between a pro choice interviewer and a pro life activist. Very uplifting and if you ever did sidewalk counseling (it is not accurate IMHO to call it protesting as those are two different activities) ...this young lady has demonstrated knowledge and maturity.
She is able to articulate the issue quite well and having the interviewer describe her as warm and friendly is quite a compliment. Sarina has street cred too. She had a rough beginning in life, made some bad choices herself, but understands that reaching out in love is key at this critical time. Interesting side note is that her own mother was conceived as a result of gang rape; her mother almost aborted her to the point of being on the table when she changed her mind. Wow, two generations almost lost. Her mom later did have an abortion when the doctor told her the baby girl she was carrying had serious defects.
"One [sign] said, ‘Babies Are Killed Here.' I don't disagree with the statement, but I don't know how warm and Christlike that is," Sarina purses her lips. "I just think you can be less vulgar. Jesus wouldn't put a sign in their face and say ‘Baby killer!'" She prefers to emulate a man, "he's maybe around 86 years old, and he goes out there every day and just loves on these people. So many women have decided not to just because someone said, ‘Someone loves you.'"
But she thinks it's okay to have more graphic images in the pamphlets. "It's just education. A lot of women go in and don't know what the doctor is doing...There's the saying, ‘If the womb had a window, no one would get an abortion."
For being 24, Sarina is quite mature. I am impressed. She understands that someone entering the abortion clinic is already hurting and confronting them with hostility and anger is not the key. The interviewer mildly chides her for not giving a good answer to the question about the feminist viewpoint but I think her answer was spot on.
"I don't really get a clear answer out of her when I talk about abortion as a feminist issue. She indicates that she finds that concept to be a misdirection, when it should be about the children."Exactly....what about the children? I strongly suspect that Sarina planted a few seeds with the interviewer and the readers. I am so glad to have someone like Sarina out there. May we all learn to give a reasonable defense of life with love not anger.
photo: via Jezebel
3 comments:
Wow, a surprise that this wasn't a "set-up" to just bash, but honest dialogue. We may never see the harvest but a seed was indeed planted, that is where we know we can give glory to God.
So awesome to be able to randomly stumble upon this page and see that someone read the interview that i had with Gaby some two years ago. Thank you for your kind words! God bless you!
Thanks for posting the comment. Made me re read the article. I found you on Facebook and followed you. Interested in seeing what you are doing these days. You have so much to offer the pro life community. I hope you are still involved.
Susie
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