Doing the Right Thing!

On Thursday, May 19th, I had the privilege of watching the life story of a dear friend. Melissa Ohden is not your average woman. Melissa is the unintended consequence of a late term salient abortion. That's right, for those who don't speak lawyer, she lived.

Her story, "A Voice for Life" (www.avoiceforlife.com), is so honest and unvarnished that if you make it through without a tear you are a stone. This film is compassionately made by Gunther Meisse II and written by Melissa Ohden and Steve Feazel. We watched it with Melissa, her husband and her beautiful daughter (a second generation miracle).

When I tell people about Melissa, my pro-abortion friends are usually politely awed. My pro-life friends are moved to goose bumps and tears. The reaction that affected me the most was when a retired physician friend asked, "They let her live?"

I had to hear it twice to understand the question. That question proves that Melissa is doubly a miracle, and that Kermit Gosnell (Philadelphia abortion "doctor", indicted for killing children who survived the abortion process and other gruesome acts) is just the worse example of what has been accepted in our society--the death, by neglect, of the accidentally born. Something once advocated by our President on the floor of the Illinois legislature.

Last week we had the opportunity to review our lives. Some seriously considered that Rapture might take place on May 21, 2011. Others hedged their bets by revisiting their faith and beliefs. Others just thought it was all a big joke. Most of us, should be grateful to still be here--to have another chance.

I firmly believe that when the time comes, and we meet our God, we will not just have to answer for what we have done to live a life of faith. I believe we must also answer the question--"what have we done to help others turn from evil?"

Turn from evil--not tolerate evil or justify evil, but turn from it. The nurse who saved Melissa when she heard this tiny child grunting turned from evil. Are you ready to do that? Is our country ready to do that?

Let's thank God for the time to have a do over. Let's make it count for ourselves, our families and our country.

PA Pro Life Federation Dinner

I had the pleasure of attending the PA Pro-Life Federation Dinner last night. The speaker was Rick Santorum. Mr. Senatorum made me remember some key aspects of being an American. To better remember them I reread the Declaration of Independence last night. I remembered that in declaring our independence from England we stated that:
* All men are created equal
* Our Creator has endowed us with inalienable rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
* Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

We long ago defined men as humans in our law (not gender or race).

We have forgotten some very important parts of the these three points. These equal humans include those born and unborn and sick and imperfect. One of the inalienable rights is the right to Life. And finally, that government derives its power from the consent of the governed.

We must reclaim these attributes of being an American. We can no longer consent to a government that tells us that our lives may be inconvenient or too expensive to allow them to start or continue.

We must not allow our government to tell us what is good enough for what we are or who we are in the delivery of our health care.

We must not consent to government by those who read polls that state that over 50% of Americans are Pro-Life or that over 70% of Americans are against government control of our health and our health care system, and yet dismisses us as too scared or stupid to know what we really want.

We must not continue to consent to the patronizing attitudes of liberal or conservative politicians who do not respect the people who elect them or the system in which they serve.

We must reclaim these attributes of being an American on November 2nd. Do not compromise and do not consent to allowing those who do not respect us and our system of government to continue to govern us.