Children and the Right to Life

 Everyone agrees that there are certain inalienable RIGHTS that should be guaranteed in life.  Common sense would tell us that the most basic of all human rights is the Right to Life, yet this right is still being denied EVERY day to thousands of our future generations, especially to girls!

Yesterday the March for Life took place in every city across the county. It was incredible to see the number of people attending; social networking, promotion, and education about the reality of abortion did so much to increase attendance this year. 
Most remarkable about the numbers of people attending is the overall AGE of pro-lifers.  It is so uplifting to see the numbers of youth in attendance; young adults, teens and especially the young children who have been raised with the awareness about the atrocity of abortion. The youth of today are paying the price of the lies fed to the last few generations.  As one of the speakers at the Winnipeg March pointed out in a very eloquent, moving speech, THEY are the ones who have lost out. They have lost out on siblings, cousins, friends, schoolmates, spouses.  We are only now beginning to understand how this has affected our society, and what repercussions there will be for us. When my oldest daughter (now 18) was in grade 6, she came to me after a particularly hard day in school, sadly saying that the reason she didn`t have a "best friend" was because maybe the person who was meant to be her best friend had been aborted".  She cried. I cried.

 We have lost out on future doctors, nurses, teachers, serving personnel, ministers, farmers, babysitters, inventors, researchers.... the list is literally endless.  Think of a profession, and you can be assured that there is a lack of competent people in that particular field.  This has had drastic effects on the economy and the very future of our country. Businesses fold. Schools close due to a lack of students. Waiting lists to see specialists or to receive medical treatments grow longer and longer due to the lack of people filling these jobs.  The elderly of our society are beginning to suffer the consequences as well; there are just not enough people to support them or to take care of them in their old age.

This is why it is so very important to raise our children to be aware of what is going on in our world.  We can no longer bury our heads in the sand, or shield our children from this truth.  Our children NEED to understand what they are battling for, and why. That doesn't mean we show our 2 year olds graphic pictures of aborted babies, but we DO need to teach them to PRAY for unborn children.  We need to teach them that we MUST have respect for Life, and that ALL life is sacred, from conception to a natural death.  Children are far more intelligent and capable of understanding than what we sometimes give them credit for.  We have an obligation to our children to bring them up with morals, values, guidelines and boundaries.  We owe them the truth, and the chance to make right what we have been silent about for too long. That means informing them, educating them, and equipping them with the tools they need to win this war against the culture of Death.

Kudos to all the beautiful families who take their babies, toddlers and school age children to events like the March for Life, the Life Hikes and other pro-life activities.  These are our future warriors and winners.  May they live to see the day when THEIR children will only have to hear about the atrocities of abortion in history books.