PAVE-ing The Way To Life

Pray
Act
Vote
Educate

This weekend was the Cleveland Right to Life Symposium. I've never seen so many pro-life activists in one room at the same time. It was a truly incredible event. As an adopted child (Whoohoo!) the pro-life movement has always been close to my heart. Most of the people emphasized how important education was. There were a lot of talks on different ways to spread the message we were fighting for.

One of the most interesting speeches was about abstinence being the number one way to cure abortion which I thought was interesting because I feel like so many relationships (speaking here of unmarried couples) today are only focused on sex and things that aren't holy. A real relationship, however, will focus on God and His Grace to keep the relationship going. It showed how any sexual actions before marriage only effect the relationship for the worse. I really thought it was something teens today needed to hear. Perhaps the most shocking thing about that talk was the way Planned Parenthood defines abstinence. I'm not going to go into in on this blog, but it was appalling and honestly wasn't even close to what abstinence really is.

The second talk that I found extremely intriguing was given by Reggie Littlejohn. Her organization "Women's Rights Without Frontiers" works to abolish the one child law in China and free Chen Guangcheng, a man (and his family!!!) who is under house-arrest and starving to death (he is very near death, and no one in his family is allowed to get food) simply for standing up against the forced abortions in China and the one child law. This man is a hero. But he is being beaten down, physically and emotionally, in the most brutal ways possible. There are so many horrible stories about women being violently dragged from their homes or from the streets to places that aren't sterile or safe half the time and FORCED to abort a child regardless of whether they want the child or not. As a woman, I can't even begin to imagine the terror, grief, savagery, and outrage they must feel when they or a loved one is forced to abort their child or be sterilized against their will. These women have died in this process. Men have been murdered for defending them. So many lives have been lost that this whole thing seems almost unreal. But it IS real. This is our world. This is what our generation is living with and this is what our generation has to stop before this happens in the United States. 


None of this going to stop unless we stand up and fight for life, fight for our freedom and the rights of the unborn. Things have to change and they have to change now!! Pave the way to life. Pray, act, vote, and educate. These are the things we absolutely have to do if we want our nation to stay free. As it is now, it can't last much longer. 


For those interested, here is Reggie Littlejohn's website: http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org
Sign the petition to free Chen Guangcheng and stop the one child law and forced abortion in China. God bless you all and God bless America!