My local pro-life group on campus sent me a little informational video in my email today about a national student pro-life organization, and in the middle of the video, a respected authority was speaking about the passion of teenagers and college students for ending abortion in our country; and he said this sentence that blew my mind:
"They [college students] understand that they're a surviving generation. One-third of their generation has been wiped out by abortion."
Think about that - one-third of our generation! There are, on average, about 3.8 million babies born every year in the U.S. - so while our generation was being born, the years between 1981 and 1991, there were about 38 million of us born in the United States alone; and so 12.7 million people of our generation were killed through abortion. Think of the vastness of that number!
And bring that down from the statistical level to the personal level - think about the impact on our lives, those of us who had parents who cherished us and wanted us to live. Who knows what relationship we might have had with the ones who died? Maybe one of those young women would have been my best friend ... maybe one of those young men would have been the young leader that my campus and my church and my community so desperately need!
Our generation has been robbed of millions of people and the light that they could have brought to us - and members of our very same generation, other young women our age, are robbing our children's generation of men and women just the same way that women of our parents' generation robbed us!It's time for us to protest against what society has done to our generation and what it is doing to the generations to come - God places each and every one of us here for a reason, and it is not up to us to decide whether another human being is worthy of having his or her purpose fulfilled! Father, let me always speak on behalf of my lost brothers and sisters who were never given the chance to raise their voices!
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
~ Proverbs 31:8-9
Love,
Vicki
Ouch... have you ever seen that random quote going something like: "Someday my prince will come... he just got lost and is refusing to ask for directions"? Like that it's kind of funny... but when you think about the serious number of MISSING PEOPLE in this country (and around the world - overpopulation in China is like a mantra), it's no wonder there are so many people wondering why they can't find someone to marry. No wonder our country is falling apart. No wonder things are so wrong... when this has been going on for almost 40 years. One-third... the numbers are incredible, and the fact that we as a country can so easily continue to condone it... *shudder*
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