Pro-Life Concerns in Senate Health Care Bill

Can you believe summer is already here? I love the summer months, and yet always feel a bit anxious at the beginning of the season because I fear that it will fly by too quickly! I need to remind myself to enjoy each day, savor the moments and make the most of these months. How about you?

Do you know what will also fly by? The time leading up to the 2018 March for Life! Today is exactly seven months until the 2018 March for Life, which will be held on Friday, January 19, 2018.

You can even start planning now – first and foremost by marking your calendar!

If you are not already receiving our email updates, the next thing you can do to prepare for the 2018 March for Life is to sign up! In the coming weeks, we will be regularly sending out updates with event details, and you won’t want to miss out on any important announcements!

The March for Life is more than just a one-day event; it is a movement of pro-life awareness and activism. It’s critical that we work each and every day to build a culture of life.

At the 2017 March for Life, we talked about the “power of one” – how every person has the capacity and opportunity to influence our culture for good.

Even during the summer months, there are many ways you can use your gifts and talents for the pro-life cause. Below are a few ideas – but don’t let this limit you!

1. Host a pro-life movie night!
2. Throw a baby shower for your local pregnancy resource center!
3. Contact your lawmakers to urge pro-life protections in health care legislation!

Dig deep and find your “power of one!”

Guest Blog Post by Corinne Zay, March for Life Intern

Many people make abortion an issue regarding only the mother and child. There is a tendency in the arguments surrounding abortion to neglect the father’s role and responsibility in pregnancy or in parenting. Having just celebrated Father’s Day, I’d like to share about the importance of fatherhood and how my own father has blessed my life.

The love and gratitude I have for my father is unconditional. He has helped me to become who I am in countless ways. My earliest memories involve my dad, whether it was riding on the big lawn mower on his lap, playing tennis ball in the backyard, or my very first 5k race in 4th grade. He taught me the value of hard work, how to serve others, and he taught me how to love and forgive others.

One of the most significant things my father has helped me with is my relationship with God. My parents not only introduced me to my faith by raising me in the Church and providing for me a Catholic education, but they showed me how to live my faith daily. It was by their example and support that I was able to grow into the faith-filled ambitious woman I am today. The root of my relationship with God stems from my parents’ love. In their decision to give me life and nurture my soul with Christ’s love I am blessed to be who I am today.

A father is crucial to understanding God, but also to the function of family. It is a father that teaches us how to love as God loves. Thank you to my father, to all fathers, and to the fathers-to-be. Men, be life affirming by representing real love in this culture. Your love can save lives. Support your wife, your sister, your mother, your girlfriend. Be a real man and lead them to God and love them on their journey because your love can impact countless lives and generations.

At the 2017 March for Life, Baltimore Raven’s Tight End Benjamin Watson had a powerful message for the crowd, particularly men.

“We need to be the leaders, caretakers, and providers that we were meant to be. We as men must stand up for the lives of the innocent and their mothers in crisis.”

>>>> Read more about Watson’s appearance at the March for Life.

Watson hints at a very important point. When a woman faces an unexpected pregnancy, she is more likely to choose life IF she has the support and encouragement of even just one person.¹

In fact, research from the umbrella Pregnancy Center group, Care Net, finds that “the father of the baby is (by far) the most influential factor in a mother’s decision to keep or abort her child. Sadly, so many fathers either push the mother to abort or leave the decision to her, essentially stepping away from their responsibility.”

Watson ends with an encouraging note in his exhortation:

“Even if it wasn’t demonstrated to you by a father, you can be different. You can change the course of generations.”

>>>> Facing an unplanned pregnancy? Find help at OptionLine.org.

Each of us has our own sphere of influence – this is the “power of one.” We can each influence others – whether it is one person or a group of people – to choose life and to end “the unthinkable practice of abortion in the United States of America.”

How will you use your influence today?

>>>> P.S. Do you know an expectant father in your life? With Father’s Day coming up, check out Ben Watson’s bestselling book, the “New Dad’s Playbook: Gearing Up for the Biggest Game of Your Life”

¹ http://vitaefoundation.org/a-new-understanding-of-the-trauma-of-abortion