In our Blessed Mother, we have the counter-sign: Mary reflects the order with which God originally created the universe, and re-creates it through her Son. This is what it means to be pro-life: to recognize, accept, and live out this entire order. It means to organize our whole lives around respect for this ingenious divine order, living it out in our bodies as well as in our minds and hearts, our attitudes and our values. Then Christ’s words will be realized in our lives: “I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” Then we will know happiness with him now in this life, and perfect happiness with him forever in the life of heaven.
