We attended an awesome and inspiring Pro-Life Rally last night here in Austin. We saw many of our good friends there from around Austin and the diocese. Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or just out of town), you may know that a grassroots effort to stop the construction of a $6.2 million Planned Parenthood facility came to a screeching halt about three weeks ago. The leader of this effort, Chris Danze, is just an amazing role model of faith, evangelism, and persistence. Last night he gave thanks to two special women, Our Blessed Mother–”who DOES interceed for us”– and his wife Sheri, his rock. Knowing both very well, I couldn’t agree with him more. Sheri has co-coordinated the Gabriel Project efforts here in central Texas for 10 years I think. The Gabriel Project is a ministry of the Catholic Church to help women in crisis pregnancies. They have both dedicated their lives to the unborn–including prayer and sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics and taking in unwed mothers into their home. Chris and Sheri are an awesome team and role models of what it means to be disciples of Christ!
I agree with Chris when he says that our society is in a coma when it comes to the scourage of abortion. Feeling our own baby everyday, I can’t imagine the evil it takes to kill a helpless child. What became more and more clear to me last night was that those who are “pro-choice” don’t have a leg to stand on and they need lots and lots of prayer. Having counseled women who were abortion-minded, I know first hand that women who “choose” to have abortions do so because they feel they DON’T have a choice!
And then there’s the idea of relative morality–the infamous, “I would never have an abortion, but other women have a right to choose.” A person cannot be “pro-choice” and Christian with that attitude. They just don’t fit together. Since when is morality relative??? That’s Cain telling God all over again, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” And what did God say? As a matter of fact you are! We as Christians have every obligation to see to the sanctity of our brothers’ and sister’s souls–not their eternal damnation!
Some good friends gave us the following to nibble on… The tide WILL turn. The simple fact of the matter is that those who support abortion are killing themselves off. And years from now, our world will denouce abortion the way it did the Holocaust. Our grandchildren will say, “Grandma, Grandpa, I can’t believe they used to kill babies like that. What did you do to help save the babies?” And I ask you…what are you doing to help save these babies?
Imagine you meet Christ face to face at your death, he’ll say, “Over a 4 million children died of abortion, why didn’t you do anything?” You say, “They weren’t MY children.”? Our Lord says, “No. They were mine.”
God love you!
