Over the years I have attended the March for Life in Palatine and in Chicago. I have paid attention to social media accounts of the March for Life in Washington D.C.
Despite the thousands of young adults and families who have turned out year after year, the coverage by the main stream media has been limited. With relief I can say that this year the coverage might be better.
For the first time ever, the President of the United States attended the March for Life and spoke to the tens of thousands of high school and college students, men and women. It was refreshing to hear the President say, “Mothers are heroes.”
When we hear the defense of a woman’s right to choose, the implication is that careers taken precedence over children. An actress at the Golden Globe Awards stated that if she had continued her pregnancy, she wouldn’t have been able to finish the movie she was in.
Some women choose to abort the life growing in them, but others don’t really have a choice. They are pressured to abort the baby by parents or boyfriends.
My daughter led a young life group. One of the girls became pregnant and called my daughter for support. She wanted to continue the pregnancy. But her parents threatened to take away all financial support, and she gave in to the pressure.
Another woman told me with tears in her eyes that she had forced her daughter to have an abortion.
Abortion is contrary to life and health. The procedure has risks and longterm consequences for women. We know that from conception the baby is developing as a unique individual.
The President said, “Every child is a precious and sacred gift from God.”
I am thankful for growing number of pregnancy centers that offer support to women that are in a difficult circumstances. I am grateful for groups that help women to heal after an abortion.
This post is linked with the Five Minute Friday writing community. Today’s prompt is: RELIEF
They say that he’s the devil,
that he will steal your wife,
that all he does is evil,
but he values unborn life.
They say that he’s a racist,
to LGBT he’s vicious;
of all men he’s the basest,
but he said that life is precious.
He puts his image on the line
to follow his devout belief,
and after politician-time,
that’s really a relief.
So if you want, yeah, you can lump
me right in with Donald Trump.
Good post!