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To: pa mom
I also hope we all don't forget the lives of the children after they are born. Please be active in your community, teach children to read, show young women that they have a future so they don't chose to bring children into the world before they are ready to raise them. Give the young men a future so they can become stable husbands and fathers...There are many ways we can witness for Christ. Pro-life is one. But we need to care for life at all its stages

This [non]argument so often insinuated by those who are "pro-choice" --namely that "pro-lifers" don't care about babies after they're born-- is a straw man. And false.

I've never seen any people more active in their communities than pro-life people.

I see pro-lifers volunteering their time and money for homes for unwed mothers, post-birth, trying to help them get their lives in order.

I see them volunteering for athletic youth leagues and church activities for teens, to try to help fatherless kids have a good role model.

I see them making financial sacrifices so that one parent can stay home to raise their own children properly; and oftentimes homeschooling them so they are kept away from the cesspool many of our public schools have become.

It's also true that sometimes pro-lifers understand that make a better world, we have to first concentrate our energies in our own homes. It makes no sense to be like Dickens's Mrs. Jellyby -- who devoted so much of her considerable energy to saving the poor starving children of Africa, while her own children at home in England suffered from neglect.

So yes, there ARE "many ways we can witness for Christ." And pro-lifers do all of them.

627 posted on 05/06/2005 10:58:08 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (The 'right to choose' = The right to choose death --for somebody else.)
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To: shhrubbery!

Not all pro-lifers do all of them. All, never, always are words one should avoid in a debate, since generalities have exceptions.

My argument was not that ALL pro-lifers don't care about children after they were born; one here made that statement and I have heard it from others.

That post was supposed to be a rumination of how we can come together with our shared beliefs and a hope that we could concentrate on those beliefs instead of the hate some are feeling. It was supposed to be a healing post; one to bring us together.

I included other ways to improve lives in America because I felt it was a place of common ground. I did not mean it to insult, attack or to be argumentative. I thought the works I mentioned would be universal goals for all of us.


758 posted on 05/07/2005 9:16:18 AM PDT by pa mom
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