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Warning: Parental Advisory. The audio/video clips of JFA's Open Mic sessions contain unedited free speech audio and portions include profanity and frank discussion of sexuality. If you are under the age of 18, please invite your parents to preview this material and approve it for your listening. Once they've reviewed it, you might invite them to listen along with you! These clips provide great opportunities for discussing what you think about life before birth, pregnancy, and abortion.
Open Mic at WSU (8/28/06): This audio is roughly the last third of a 90-minute open mic session. Eva Heath joined the conversation at 15:55 of this clip. See our July 2024 Impact Report for more about Eva and this clip.
Eva (right) joins the open mic at Wichita State University (August 2006).
Eva: Hi, I was listening, and I just wanted to say that I was born in 1959. At that time there was a Rubella outbreak and my mother had Rubella first trimester. Statistically speaking, if you are in utero in the first trimester, affected by Rubella you are born completely deaf, completely blind, stillborn, or with gross facial disfigurations or with microcephalus or hydrocephalus.
I was not born with any of those except that I’m deaf in my right ear. Now I also want to add to that, that now medical doctors who do perform abortions would often tell the mother (as my mother) you know there’s this option, you can abort your baby. Of course they won’t say you can kill your baby. You can abort your baby, it sounds so much better, so much more politically correct. Now I’m here to testify that life is good. However, life was not good as a child.
I was one of those foster children. When you spoke [of] the Vietnam veteran [and foster care], I said I’ve got to speak because I was one of those foster children. I was neglected, I was abused, there was just terrible, terrible things that happened to me as a child, but as I grew up and saw that there was life out there, and I will say that, yes, like the gentlemen said, life is hard. But there is hope. I was human in my mother’s utero. I am still human now, so bottom line in my mind: Is it ever okay to kill a human? Like, was it ever okay for slavery to be legal? To me, if we look at the whole bottom line of that issue, Is it ever okay to kill a human?