by Susie Allen, TN pro-life activist
Albert Mohler has a tearjerker of an adoption story at his blog about a Dutch couple and their little Haitian boy named Arno. Read with a box of tissues.
Mark Crutcher encourages pro-lifers who have taken on the “George Bailey Syndrome,” as he calls it, who have begun to doubt that their efforts have made any difference in saving the lives of preborn children. He also discusses the Russian population problem as it relates to their high abortion rates.
On a personal note, I am the grandmother to two children (pictured left) who were adopted from Russia. We may never know all the circumstances or why they were spared from abortion; but this world is a better place because they are here. A profound thank you to their birth mothers.
Generations for Life reports this year’s TeenSpeak conference had the largest number of attendees to date. Speakers included Lila Rose from LiveAction.org and representatives from Students for Life of IL and Pro-Life Action League.
Ixoye draws attention to a Family Research Council brief which reveals the onslaught against pro-life pregnancy resource centers by NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
That first story was amazing and so profound.
The second entry shows us how destructive abortion is and to think of the other beautiful children not born in Russia. We must not give up the battle…look at their faces
What a beautiful, if heartbreaking story.
A friend of mine and I were discussing taking in foster children when we retire (which is at least ten years from now for me) and I am really seriously considering doing it someday.
Children fill a home with sunshine!
Sorry but both (first and second) stories depressed me…not just the second…
What happened in Russia could happen here if we allowed the terrible healthcare bill to go through where we basically funded abortions. This could be us. Will we ever learn? We must be vigiliant against this idea.
So, all of you antiabortionists eat meat right?
Explain the hypocrisy of that.
You get all upset about a tiny little blob of flesh while animals are outright tortured so you can have a Big Mac?
Hypocrites.
Enjoy your Big Mac.
Hi Mark.
“So, all of you antiabortionists eat meat right?”
Yes, I eat meat.
“Explain the hypocrisy of that.”
A hypocrite teaches one thing while believing another. So a hypocrite teaches “X” but believes “not X.” As a pro-lifer, I believe that human beings are intrinsically valuable and have moral worth simply in light of being human. I do not believe animals have intrinsic value and moral worth simply in light of being animals (non-human animals, of course). So immediately, there is no hypocrisy being shown.
Now perhaps you believe that the two views I outlined above are CONTRADICTORY. I do not believe they are, but I am open to hearing any argument put forth. But either way, hypocrisy is not the correct term to be using (now I sound like a pro-choicer, arguing semantics) .
In any case, suppose that you are indeed correct, and that every single pro-lifer is a giant hypocrite. How does it then follow that abortion does not unjustly take the life of an innocent human being?
Mark, I should also add that I do not agree with torturing animals. My father-in-law is a farmer, and hunts and buys his own animals which have been humanly raised and killed, using the whole animal. This is something that I most definitely support, rather than the mass production-ways of shooting up animals with hormones so they grow quickly and then killing them. In fact, depending on where my wife and I end up moving to this year, we may be in a position to raise our own chickens, in which case we would eat those chickens rather than anything that was shot full of growth hormones and shoved in a crowded, filthy chicken coop.
Hi Mark…Ellie…Jenna! Welcome. Please choose one moniker and stick to it. It’s just easier that way. Thank you!