The following was submitted by former Oregon Right to Life executive director Gayle Atteberry.
Having worked fair booths for the past 35 years, I thought I had seen it all so I was not expecting the sweet encounter I had this year.
I was setting up the booth before it opened when an older teen sauntered over. By the vest he was wearing, he looked as if he were a fair employee.
He saw the box I had just put on the table which held models the exact size of unborn babies from 6 to 9 weeks.
“What’s that?” he asked.
“Those are babies,” I answered. “Those aren’t babies!” he retorted. “Well,” I gently asked, “what would you call them?”
He picked up the box. He looked at the models. He turned the box. He studied them. He thought. “These are little humans”, he finally said.
Smiling from ear to ear, I replied “You are exactly right!”
For the next five minutes, we discussed the growth of the “little humans” and he listened in awe to the telephone which played the sound of an 8-week old “little human” heartbeat.
I watched as he finally walked away and I thought to myself, “And THAT is why we keep doing fair booths year after year!”
