Will You Speak for the ‘Little Ones?’
Someone recently shared with me a video of Mother Teresa circulating on social media. It was recorded in 1979, but relevant 40+ years later.
Someone recently shared with me a video of Mother Teresa circulating on social media. It was recorded in 1979, but relevant 40+ years later.
The video features Mother Teresa’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, in which she used her platform to speak for the “little ones.”
As we prepare to vote now via absentee ballot or at the polls in November, I hope we, too, will speak for the little ones. The thought of placing the right to abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy into our state constitution is almost too much to stomach.
As Father Joe points out in his column on page 14, at some point, from a scientific standpoint, we must all (pro-life and pro-choice alike) be able to agree, “This is a life.” Proposal 3 would forever, by virtue of a constitutional amendment, allow abortion up through birth.
As you will see on the pages that follow, there are many others concerns hidden in the carefully crafted and radically extreme Reproductive Freedom for All, Proposal 3 ballot initiative.
Women and children deserve better than what is being offered to us by Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Please take time to read more about Proposal 3 and when you’re done, share it with someone else.
In this battle for the right to life, the little ones are counting on us to speak for them. If not us, then who?
Come Holy Spirit!
Erin Looby Carlson is editor of FAITH Saginaw magazine and director of communications for the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw.