Pro-abortionists(those that consider the abortion ‘option’ a must) have always claimed that the pro-lifers are only concerned with a baby’s life before it is born. Any time other than that, they believe pro-lifers could care less.
When one considers the mother/child/father programs that are available, it will be obvious how that argument is totally devoid of fact. Have they ever heard about Room at the Inn? How about Rachel’s Vineyard? Silent No More? Prayer Partners? Spiritual Adoption? Voter Registration?
Just taking the Room at the Inn, one can see an interesting trend developing. With a staff of only eight total people, two separate departments have developed. One is a residential location for all those mothers who decide to have their babies without any family support. The other is an Outreach Aftercare program encompassing professional counseling, life-skills in parenting, budgeting, nutrition, and employment basics.
But on the way to helping others help others live, strange things happened with this program. The first year(2004) saw 53 people helped/saved. The second year(2005) witnessed 153 people. But in 2006, there were over 450 people aided with the program. It is expected that they will help save >1600 lives in 2007. Now for those that care to extrapolate on trends, that looks to be >4500 lives saved/helped in 2008, and >13,500 in 2009.
One must ask several questions upon seeing this trend. Why is it growing at the astounding rate of at least 3x the previous amount every year? Keeping this trend in mind, how many are becoming pregnant, but have been using some other means of disposing of the unwanted child? With this kind of trend, how many lives would be saved after 10 years? After 25? Of those that were saved, what % would have considered themselves only ‘blobs of tissue’? Of those that were saved, how many would now consider themselves pro-life at this point?
Of course, these questions open up whole sets of other questions. Of those saved, who will wind up being another Washington, Reagan, Mother Theresa, or John Paul II? Who would have been smart enough to solve oncoming problems of an evolving world? Which one of them would have solved the dilemmas of ‘fusion’ energy, or even time travel, or any other oncoming problem?
Why limit yourself to a single organization out of Charlotte(NC)? We know that in the US alone, 1.3 million deaths are reported by abortion per year. And that’s not even counting the lives lost by the ‘pill’, the ‘morning-after’ pill, “IVF”, and RU-486.
The interesting item in all of the above is that a simple question to anybody still alive is, “Would you have preferred an abortion?” The resounding answer is, “Of course not”. In fact, few ever admit that they are glad that their mom had the legal option to kill them.
The bottom line is that ‘pro-lifers’ are always concerned about life—at any stage. Whether that be the proper care of a fertilized embryo, a five month old who would have difficulty living without help from their mom’s body, or a 5 year old who would have difficulty living without direct help from their mom and/or dad.
Even though huge amounts can be written about any of the other programs offered, that information can be obtained by sending the author an e-mail and the punch of a button.
It’s more than surreptitious that “live” spelled backwards is “evil”.
Kevin Roeten can be reached at roetenks@charter.net or kevin@kevinroeten.us.