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<p>Of all the things I remember about the Texas March for Life in Austin last January, the memory that stands out the most is the look on the faces of the counter-protesters who followed us along Congress Avenue and down to the capitol that frosty morning. When I glanced over to see the source of the epithets that were being screamed at us, I met the eyes of one young woman wearing a black bandana over the bottom half of her face. She happened to look over and meet my gaze, and in her eyes I saw one thing: hatred. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2559" title="Permanent Link: A Former Pro-Choice Atheist Reflects on Sex, Abortion and Anger" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(1119 words, estimated 4:29  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>A Former Pro-Choice Atheist Reflects on Sex, Abortion and Anger</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2559" title="Permanent Link: A Former Pro-Choice Atheist Reflects on Sex, Abortion and Anger" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (1119 words, estimated 4:29  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":2559,"date":"2014-02-01T14:39:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T19:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2014-02-01T14:39:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T19:39:50","slug":"former-pro-choice-atheist-reflects-sex-abortion-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"A Former Pro-Choice Atheist Reflects on Sex, Abortion and Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of all the things I remember about the Texas March for Life in Austin last January, the memory that stands out the most is the look on the faces of the counter-protesters who followed us along Congress Avenue and down to the capitol that frosty morning. When I glanced over to see the source of the epithets that were being screamed at us, I met the eyes of one young woman wearing a black bandana over the bottom half of her face. She happened to look over and meet my gaze, and in her eyes I saw one thing: hatred. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2559\" title=\"Permanent Link: A Former Pro-Choice Atheist Reflects on Sex, Abortion and Anger\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(1119 words, estimated 4:29  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>A Former Pro-Choice Atheist Reflects on Sex, Abortion and Anger<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2559\" title=\"Permanent Link: A Former Pro-Choice Atheist Reflects on Sex, Abortion and Anger\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (1119 words, estimated 4:29  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Former Pro-Choice Atheist Reflects on Sex, Abortion and Anger - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2559\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Former Pro-Choice Atheist Reflects on Sex, Abortion and Anger - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Of all the things I remember about the Texas March for Life in Austin last January, the memory that stands out the most is the look on the faces of the counter-protesters who followed us along Congress Avenue and down to the capitol that frosty morning. 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