Why Am I Pro-life?

I've had to ask myself the question: Why am I pro-life? 

I guess in the midsts of starting a crisis pregnancy centre and doing pro-life advocacy work, you start to--ironically--lose your sense of purpose, your sense of direction. Or maybe this is just something that happens as you grow up, and you start to forget some of the subconscious convictions you held onto before adulthood started to occupy most of your brain cells. 

It's okay, though, because, while you're sitting around, browsing Facebook when you should be in bed, you can come across stories that somehow reteach you who you are and why you do what you do.

This man in the picture...

...he didn't have to do what he did.

In fact, if you had been his neighbour, you might have felt a little uncomfortable, if you knew that he was forging illegal travel passes for Jews who were trying in escape Nazi persecution. He was a Japanese diplomat, living in Lithuania at the time of the Holocaust. He put himself out there: he risked his life for the lives of others. He was married; had a nice job, I would think. But he risked it all. For people he didn't even know; for people in a country he wasn't even from. He saved 6,000 lives, and he didn't want to stop, even as he was leaving the country.

Someone asked my friend the other day,supposedly to combat her pro-life view, if she had ever thought of the legal repercussions of making abortion illegal. Imagine all the mothers and doctors, for example, who might be prosecuted for having been involved in an abortion.

It's easy for a point like that to make a person go cross-eyed for a minute. Gee, I've never thought about that. Well, that's because it's the last thing you're thinking about when children are being aborted by the thousands every single day in America alone. All arguments are irrelevant when you try to answer the only question that counts:

What is an abortion?

As a pro-lifer, I'm trying to make sure that people don't get hurt, no matter the cost, even though I don't have to. I could shut up and hide instead (I'm often tempted to). But, I'm trying to be like the guy in the picture. It was illegal to help the Jews. He could have been shot in his own home. I'm not going to retract my stance or my efforts overs scruples any more than he would have stopped forging to save his own life.

Besides, it is the law that has taught women and doctors to view abortion as a legal right, just as Hitler taught his people that exterminating the Jews was their moral obligation. We didn't give every single German soldier the firing squad for being involved in the Holocaust, but we definitely took their leaders to task. 

The government of a  nation that destroys it's own people cannot last. People like you, me and Sugihara have to remember the bottom line.

Think about it.

Anyway, that's why I'm pro-life.

Facebook photo caption:

Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.
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