Think of a newborn baby. Consider that this baby just didn’t magically somehow appear at birth, but, rather, was exquisitely knitted together in the mother’s womb through a myriad of mathematically incalculable step by step, resulting in the formation of organs, blood, bones, muscles all interacting with each other to form the most wonderful reality in all of God’s marvelous creation–a human life!
Be inspired by the marvelous nine-minute TED Talk “Conception to Birth” and please widely disseminate it as part of a much needed comprehensive, ongoing strategy to educate as many children and adults as possible about the truly awesome wonder of the conception and miraculous development of each human life inside the womb of every mother!
Social media, podcasts, T.V. and radio ads, billboards, homilies, church bulletins, university seminars, peaceful demonstrations with photos, school curriculums, are some of the routes we need to take to educate society regarding the wonderous scientific facts associated with human development in utero.
As essential as it is for us to mount well-organized, comprehensive educational strategies, it is also vitally important to commit ourselves to being legislatively active. Well-coordinated, comprehensive pro-life legislative efforts are especially needed as pro-abortion groups–particularly in the U.S.–are aggressively mounting a strategy to enshrine into state constitutions the guarantee that abortion on demand will be the law of each state.
This should be a wake-up call for us to redouble our efforts–not only in the U.S. where over 800,000 abortions occur annually, but globally. A large majority of countries allow abortion for numerous reasons resulting in 73 million abortions taking place every year worldwide.
According to The Guardian, it is estimated that 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza are facing uncertainty about how they will give birth due to Israel’s destruction of 14 hospitals and 46 clinic and its blockade of essential supplies.
One bombed out woman, Noor Hammad, 24, said “I have no idea where I will give birth to my daughter and how I will receive her without shelter or clothes.”
Just as advocates for the unborn need to better realize that war is an enemy to the unborn, anti-war advocates need to better understand that abortion is war upon the unborn.
And may we remember that God is the God of life! And in his awesomeness continues to wondrously create unborn life–and all life. And our God-given mission is to nonviolently protect and cherish it all.