By Maria V. Gallagher, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation
I was attending a church event recently when one of my fellow attendees posed a brilliant question: What would we have done without those babies?
The query speaks to the heart of the issue of defending innocent human life. So many of us were conceived in difficult circumstances, and our parents truly struggled. Yet, in the end, against all odds, they gave us life.
Our families, communities, and country would be greatly impoverished without the many babies who enrich our world.
When we support abortion, we are tearing apart the very fabric of our society. We need babies, as much as they need us. They make us kinder, gentler individuals and give us a purpose in life. The world would be a lot colder and a lot less hospitable without them around.
Every life has meaning and represents an eternal spark of divine life. When we extinguish that spark through abortion, we coarsen our culture and undermine our civilization.
We have no right to take the lives of others away. They should be allowed to exercise the most fundamental freedom—the freedom to live.
The issue of the sanctity of human life can make us appreciate all the more the little ones who grace our schools and playgrounds.
What would we have done without those babies? I shudder to think.