Remembering Roe

40 years ago today, the landmark decision to legalize abortion was made.

It literally brings tears to my eyes.

Mother Theresa said it best in 1994:

"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation.  The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.  It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships.  It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society.  it has portrayed the greatest of gifts - - a child - - as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience.  And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners.  Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign."

Last month, after the tragedy in Newtown, CT our president was quoted as saying something along the lines of this:

The innocent children in Newtown, because of this senseless act of violence, now won't have a chance at life - birthdays, graduations, weddings... 

This same president who supports the killing of over 3,000 innocent lives EVERY DAY.  That's over 1 million innocent lives every year!

Can we say contradictory and hypocritical?

When do we as a country - as a society - say enough is enough?!

This year I pledge to do all I can to protect the lives of the unborn... to be the voice for the voiceless.  If it isn't in God's plan for me to be a mother... I will die praying for, protecting and raising awareness for the thousands of lives given up on every day.