Archive for February 2021
40 Days for Life in Des Moines has begun
The spring 40 Days for Life prayer campaign is from February 17 through March 28! It looks like the weather will improve this weekend, but please be in prayer at home for this campaign, the lives of the unborn, and for the clients and employees of the Des Moines Planned Parenthood location. There are daily devotions…
Read More40 Days for LIFE begins!
40 Days for Life starts TODAY in 567 cities around the world. Visit 40daysforlife.com/location, find the vigil nearest you, sign up, and go out to pray! Joe in Chicago saw first-hand how God answers our prayers. Upon arriving to his 40 Days for Life vigil site, he found the abortion center had gone out of…
Read MoreWhy abortion should not be political at all
By ALEXIS BAKER Abortion morality As a black woman who stands on pro-life values here in America, I tend to be widely disagreed with by certain demographics. I appear to be accepted by conservatives for my unpopular stance on supporting life in the womb and frowned upon by liberals for being archaic or insensitive. However,…
Read MoreMy child has been redeemed
By ANGELINA DAVIS J.C. Watts once famously said, “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.” And he wasn’t all words and no action: when faced with his own pregnancy scandal with a white woman in the 1970s, he chose life for his daughter. Modern day pregnancy scandal Like Watts, I grew up in…
Read MoreHow Auschwitz happened
The Nazis killed 216,400 Jews a year at Auschwitz for the crime of being … a Jew. By contrast, U.S. abortion mills have killed an average of 1,250,000 babies a year since 1973 for the crime of being … inconvenient. Americans can’t understand how the German people could have let Auschwitz happen under their noses…
Read MoreThe Womb, God’s Envisioned Safe Haven for the Most Precious Unborn
By LOIS BROOKHART Although I am not sure of the source of this prayer, I have prayed it daily for over a year: Prayer for the Unborn Eternal Father, we pray that we may hear the cries of the unborn in our hearts. That we may see in the eyes of every child, their brothers…
Read MoreClaiming the Promise of Life in America
By CATHERINE DAVIS In 1945, Julian Lewis, the first Black professor at the University of Chicago wrote about taking birth control as a measure of equality with Caucasians. His essay showcased what he considered a treasure of the Black community – their “precocious fertility” that resulted in a what he called biologic victory. The enslaved…
Read MoreWhat Abortion Doesn’t Offer
By AMINA STOCK I was the 18 year old daughter of a progressive mother who briefly taught me that abortion was a woman’s choice. I also had a father who never mentioned a word about this topic to me in our home. It wasn’t until after my own abortion that I realized how wrong and…
Read MoreGoogle silences pro-life voices
Did Google swing the election? We typed this sentence into Google’s search engine. The first result referred to the 2016 election, and was published on October 25th, 2016. The second result was a “fact-checking” article from the New York Times that said former President Trump’s claim of voter fraud lacked evidence. Neither result referred to…
Read MoreNo one is a “mistake”
By TAMIKO THOMAS Greetings everyone! My name is Tamiko Thomas. I’m an African American woman who grew up in the midwest, in an evangelical Christian home. I am married. My husband Corey Thomas and I have been married for 31 years. We have three adult children ages 30, 25 and 22. We also have two…
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