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IT'S NOT A PARADE, IT'S A PROPHECY
On Saturday morning I woke up and read my Twitter feed. Among the tweets were comments from someone who had marched in a parade that morning and someone who had started walking to end abortion that morning. The contrast of the two was striking to me. Of course there’s nothing wrong with marching in a parade; that wasn’t the issue. Instead, it was the just a position of a society that praises parades and pardons abortion.
While most weekends across the United States, bands, drill teams colorguards, and floats line the streets and show off their talents to a community or even to Times Square, this past weekend 39 women started walking over 270 miles to bring awareness, open eyes, and fight the injustice of abortion by being a prophetic testimony across Texas.
WHEN WOMEN DO BRAVE THINGS
On Saturday, thirty-nine young women, each one representing a year of legalized abortion nationwide since 1973, began a walk of 250 miles in southern Texas. Over the course of t19 days they'll cover the distance between the nation's largest abortion center in Houston to the courthouse in Dallas where the case of Roe. V. Wade was first heard.
The journey is being sponsored by an organization called Back to Life, whose founding mission is to stir America’s conscience to the injustice and tragedy of abortion. Their founder is Laura Z. Allred, a woman whose vision for the event is bold and straightforward:
“While there are many prominent voices on both sides of the abortion issue," she said
BRINGING AMERICA BACK TO LIFE
As Laura Allred prayed with other leaders and engaged in what she calls “prophetic brainstorming” nearly two years ago, the Holy Spirit dropped an idea in her heart. She thought it was crazy at first, but loved it all the same.
That’s how the Back to Live Movement was born. And from March 17 to April 6, Allred will see the vision come to pass as 39 young women—one for every year abortion has been legal in the United States—will walk nearly 250 miles from Houston to Dallas.
The goal is to not only raise awareness about the devastating reality of abortion, but to take a stand and break the murderous cycle in the U.S. Each day during the walk, a different woman will record her story and it will stream live on the Internet.
by Gina Meeks | March 9, 2012
WALKING OUT THEIR FAITH
A girl in her preteens sat journaling among thousands of tiny white crosses on the lawn of Herman Park in Houston during the mid-1980s. The girl had come to visit this Cemetery of the Innocents with her Sunday school teacher and one other girl. Although she already believed in the sanctity of human life, that day the call to battle abortion became a personal burden for her.
The young girl confided in her journal about the grief she felt. Millions of lives had been lost since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 ruled that preborn children could be aborted during any point of pregnancy. Were friends missing from her life because of Roe v. Wade? Two things were certain when she left the park that day: She was passionate to protect the sanctity of human life and frustrated that she didn’t know what to do about it.
by Julie Smyth | Dec 26, 2011
SILENT NO MORE
Today, in our nation, approximately 4,000 of our fellow Americans will be murdered. In truth, these lives will be sacrificed … not for the sake of our nation’s freedom, not for a noble cause, but to the “god of convenience”. This will happen every day until Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion 39 years ago this month is overturned. I believe there will be a day when this law that has been in place for my entire lifetime will be overturned. I have always “known” abortion was wrong. I voted only for pro-life candidates, but that was about the extent of my involvement. Over time, my own heart began to grow dull on the issue. Without even knowing—I had grown so familiar with this practice that there was an underlying thought in my heart, “Would it ever be any different?”
Does it seem impossible to you? Does it seem that our nation will never again know the day that abortion is illegal? It did to me, until 2000.
Jan 12, 2012
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