Sidewalk Chalk and Hecklers

On Sunday November 14, my college Pro-Life group had side walk chalked several, for lack of a better word, nifty Pro-Life sayings all over our college campus. Examples were “abortion hurts women”, “Pro-Life = Pro-Woman”, and Ronald Reagan’s famous quote on abortion only being advocated by those who have been born. Our hope was to raise awareness on the issue, since our campus had a lack of a pro-life voice in 2009-2010.Well, we know that people certainly read it. The next day my group and I had looked at our masterpieces to see that they had been altered by a very concerned pro-choice student. The saying “Abortion hurts women” was suddenly changed to “Abortion saves Women” and Ronald Reagan’s famous quote was altered to say that “everyone who supports abortion has already been born [by choice].” I had heard some members of Students for life warning pro-life collegians to not be surprised if pro-choice groupswill pop up in reaction to us. I suppose I should have known what I was getting into.I admit I was feeling a little disheartened, but the rest of my group wasn’t. Our group president gleefully assured us that this meant that someone read what we wrote and actually went to the trouble to take a trip to Wal-Mart to buy pink sidewalk chalk to react to it. It meant we were making an impact. While we can debate whether or not we had the last laugh in the end, the important thing to remember is to keep a positive attitude when being heckled. We are the only defense for the unborn and it would be foolish to let a little pink sidewalk chalk stop us.- Nick Neal, Guest Blogger