January 4, 2011 8:15 AM
2011 Choose Life - enlighten, empower, equip
January 22 will mark the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade - though "anniversary" seems a euphemistic word for what has amounted to the slaughter of 50,000,000 babies. The effects of this anti-life ethic reverberate throughout our society - legalizing abortion was, indeed, the slippery slope warned of by those concerned more with morality than pragmatics.
I will be publishing daily on pro-life issues this month. All articles will be archived and linked to the Choose Life button in my sidebar. Please - even if you don't usually make it a practice to be a message-bearer, consider becoming one this month. Enlighten, empower and equip those in your circle of influence - using Facebook, Twitter and your email list. Let's do our best to make this the strongest pro-life effort ever - and next year we'll do the same. Pro-life momentum is building.
Whether you homeschool or delegate your child's education to others, I urge all parents to saturate your children with this issue this month The tide has turned for the pro-life movement - a natural outcome of science/technology which has revealed the humanity of the unborn baby in a way 1972 feminists never knew. Then too there is the fact that those who value life tend to have children, often lots of them.
And those who don't are self-extinguishing. Even teens whose parents are pro-abortion don't have to think too hard when pro-life peers start asking questions. The existential crisis of knowing that their parents' generation was taught to think of them as "blobs of cells" which were theirs to destroy doesn't really generate much loyalty. Unconditional love seems pretty attractive by comparison.
I encourage you to share everything you can with your children, to discuss and teach them to discuss the meaning of abortion - not just in moral terms, but from the pragmatic standpoint that their generation is not only being burdened with debt because of political greed and corruption - but also because the two preceding generations have eliminated 1/4 of those they now expect to pay Viagra bills for the most self-centered group of seniors ever.
Give your children the material they need to refute the unchallenged messages our culture continues to feed them: the myth of overpopulation, global warming/climate change (which has already made it into their textbooks though the data was proven to be falsified and our planet is clearly in a cooling phase right now), guilt for living in America.
If you have had an abortion and have kept it a secret, please pray for healing and consider sharing with your children so they have the opportunity to learn from your experience. I will be running resources and materials as I continue my research.
But go beyond the negative arguments to demonstrate daily that life is truly the most important gift. Tell them often how much you love them. Show them that they are more important than the wealth you might have accumulated without them. Talk about the sleepless nights and the trials and triumphs of being a parent. Get out their baby books and remember. Feed their own human yearning for family and meaning.
At the same time, talk about the importance of purity, marriage and family. God's plan for this central aspect of our lives is the only thing that can bring us true happiness, at the same time bringing us closer to God. Love involves commitment and sacrifice. We cannot have it all. At some point you have to choose.
Choose life - and do your best to help others choose, too.
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Comments
I'm looking forward to this series- it's such an important topic!
Happy New year!
Posted by: priest's wife | January 4, 2011 10:03 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/opinion/03douthat.html?_r=1
I thought you might like this article from NYTimes
Posted by: Martha | January 4, 2011 12:24 PM
Fantastic goal !!
I'm praying for my writer's block to vanish in 2011.
I'd love to see an article encouraging women to celebrate
their fertility! Seems like they spend so much of their lives
putting it down and then need to rely on technology to
become a parent, long after the more (logical, natural, normal ?) time for motherhood to begin.
Posted by: Leslie Hanks | January 4, 2011 1:26 PM
