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Like many working in the pro-life movement, I just can\u2019t seem to get \u201clife\u201d off the brain. I can\u2019t help but see a pro-life angle on just about anything that comes before my eyes or passes through my ears.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the social media darling,\u00a0Pinterest<\/a>, my ability to thrust a pro-life angle out into the culture to play with and think about has expanded significantly.<\/p>\n

Two images that I have pinned in the last few months have gone viral. What\u2019s interesting about these pins is that neither Ohio Right to Life nor anyone in the pro-life movement (as far as I can tell) created them. All I did was caption each with a message that included \u201c#prolife.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Both are seemingly innocuous, right? The one is a tender thought on sisterhood. The other is a Harry Potter quote. Both would surely pull in plenty of people, pro-life and pro-choice alike.<\/p>\n

Well, both did.<\/p>\n

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Sisterhood got repined more than 1200 times:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And Harry Potter got repined more than 1500 times:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Harry<\/p>\n

Now people can certainly be repinning these images without regard for the captions I create. And many in fact\u00a0didn\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0repin these\u00a0because<\/em>\u00a0of the captions\u2014as they told us in their comments. (Never mind that users are free to repin an image and edit the caption to their liking.)<\/p>\n

On each image, users expressed their frustration that a \u201cpoignant\u201d or \u201cwonderful\u201d post was given a pro-life angle.<\/p>\n

Despite liking the post for what it said, they refused to indulge what I interpreted to be a positive, pro-life message.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notice that I said nothing about banning abortion, and really, nothing political.<\/p>\n

I made reference to \u201cchoice\u201d (the most critical factor in ending abortion being a mother\u2019s choice to reject the abortion industry) and the value of family, a factor that will hopefully inspire more women to choose life for their children.<\/p>\n

Both pins are inspiring. Both speak to the power of human choice and love, things that should prompt us to choose good over evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some people didn\u2019t take these posts well. But thousands of Pinterest users liked them enough to repin them because, at a very basic level, the Pinterest community is one that is looking to inspire and to be inspired. I think the same is true of the pro-life community.<\/p>\n

If one positive thought speaks to the part of everyone\u2019s soul that longs to believe in the power of human choice and human love, then I can\u2019t help but believe that Pinterest is a way of advancing pro-life culture, even if it is a small way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note: This article first appeared at the Ohio Right to Life Blog<\/a> and is reprinted with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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