We Are the Future of the Pro Life Movement:

Today, my sister and I met up with some others at the abortion clinic in Greenville to pray and sidewalk counsel. I remember, it was after being there the first time a couple years ago, seeing women come and go, realizing that they were killing their own children, that I knew we had to do something- anything about this great tragedy. Afterwards, crossing the road with two of the older men who were there, we started talking.
A conversation that started out kinda depressing turned out to be kinda amusing( well, that is to Hannah and me....). " We need more young people to get involved with the movement.........Because we (older people) won't be around much longer( depressing part)." Then the other guy in front turned around with an emphatic, "Speak for yourself! I plan to be around at least 10 more years......" And then......they continued their strange conversation while Hannah and I stifled laughs in the back.( ok, we are rather bad at stifling...) Who knew this was what goes on in old man conversations........

OK, so I really was trying to get at something important before I got distracted....:)

What the older man said( lets call him Bob), What Bob said was so true. Out of all the times I've been to the clinic, I've only ever seen two young people there. It's always the older people, bless them, that come out that early to pray and counsel, sometimes even in the cold and rain. Now, I know there are young people in the pro life movement and they are awesome! But we need more of them! It's true that the pro life movement needs us, the youth, to carry on the battle for life. To stand up for the innocent and to speak for those who can't. Because when the older people are gone, who will take their place? Will people cease to care? Will all the hard work put in by others in the movement fade away because we didn't stand up to take their place and do our part?

I don't think so. I believe we will carry on the battle. We already are. So, stand up for life. Use everything God has given you in defense of life- your time, your talents, your energy. And believe me, I know that it's not fun, its not always encouraging and definitely not popular to be actively pro life. But it's not about having fun or being popular. It's about doing what you're supposed to do. About doing the right thing. As a human being and as a Christian.

Pope John Paul II said,

""You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion."



~ Pope John Paul II, during his visit to New York, 1995 ~


So, What do you say? Let's answer the call! <3

Congressman Henry Hyde

" When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God- and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I think that those in the pro life movement will not be alone. I think that there will be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world- and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, " Spare him, because he loved us!"

Mother Teresa on Abortion:

"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters" And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign." ......................................


"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "


"Notable and Quotable" Wall Street Journal- Mother Teresa

Just Another "Anti Choice" Fanatic.....

"Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so that their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them."


~ Susan B. Anthony, quoted in The American Feminist, Spring 1998 ~




http://www.feministsforlife.org/