The Ultimate Visual Aid Putting a Face on Abortion.

It's nearly impossible to fathom. Thousands of lives lost every day, over a million every year and upwards of 47 million since 1973.

Early on in my pro-life career I realized that there was no way I could grasp this reality unless I could see it laid out in front of me. It made sense to my 14-year-old self that if people could see the toll abortion was taking, they would be less likely to allow it to continue.

So I naively set out to make "the ultimate visual aid." I got out my glue stick and scissors, raided the catalogue shelf in the living room, and set out to cut and paste baby faces to represent the number of children killed by abortion every year. At the time, in the early 1980s, that number was 1.5 million.

Anyone with a math gene is laughing right nowperhaps loudly. After all, only a really mathematically challenged child would think such a thing were even possible. By the end of the day every catalogue child under the age of four in our house was headless. There was glue everywhere, and I was sobbing inconsolably.

After a day's work I had only enough baby faces to represent the number of children killed by abortion in one hour. It occurred to me that unborn children were being killed faster than I could cut them out and glue them onto paper. I was devastated. For years I traveled with that single sheet of paper representing the number of babies killed by abortion every hour.

About a decade later, a group of resourceful teens took up the project, this time with a more reasonable goal: representing the number of babies lost every day to the scourge of abortion. They succeeded in putting together an incredible representation of abortion's devastation.

"The Babies," as they are now known in Wisconsin, have attended state and national conventions, teen leadership camps, college training seminars, and have even visited college ...