{"id":237135,"date":"2021-01-01T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=237135"},"modified":"2021-01-27T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:33:32","slug":"pro-lifers-unite-2021-abortion-unthinkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-lifers-unite-2021-abortion-unthinkable\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-lifers must unite in 2021 to make abortion unthinkable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For all the chaos of the year that was 2020, gains<\/a>\u00a0were made toward saving the lives of preborn children. But as Americans head into 2021 and face what may end up being the most pro-abortion presidential administration in U.S. history, pro-lifers must come together and become the community that women need in order to confidently choose life for their children.<\/p>\n

Village morals<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s a saying believed to be an African proverb, though an accurate attribution has yet to be given to a specific country or region. “It takes a village to raise a child” has been “used to the point of\u00a0clich\u00e9,” said scholars<\/a> after Hillary Clinton used the proverb to title her 1996 book. However, while Americans like Clinton have used the saying to imply that children don’t belong to parents but to the “state” or to the\u00a0community<\/a>, a necessary component of the proverb is common morality.\u00a0Lawrence Mbogoni, an African studies professor, told NPR:<\/p>\n

Proverb or not, “It takes a whole village to raise a child” reflects a social reality some of us who grew up in rural areas of Africa can easily relate to. As a child, my conduct was a concern of everybody, not just my parents, especially if it involved misconduct. <\/em><\/p>\n

Any adult had the right to rebuke and discipline me and would make my mischief known to my parents who in turn would also mete their own “punishment.” The concern of course was the moral well-being of the community.<\/em><\/p>\n

The point is that everyone in the village had the same moral beliefs, unlike the so-called “village” of American society. But a basic common belief system does<\/em> exist<\/em> in\u00a0the pro-life community which, at its core, says that abortion is both a moral wrong and legalized murder. While true pro-lifers may disagree on other social issues of our time, they all agree on this.\u00a0Building the pro-life community into a village for women is a necessary step towards making abortion unthinkable.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: \u2018We need to make abortions unthinkable\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Changing hearts and minds<\/strong><\/p>\n

While it is vital to continue to work towards criminalizing abortion throughout all 40 weeks of pregnancy, this may prove to be a longer haul than helping individual women to choose life and changing hearts and minds on abortion — especially as pro-lifers face a heavily pro-abortion presidential administration.<\/p>\n