Work against abortion... by promoting motherhood

[Beryllos]

The media tends to run news stories about people fighting for free access to abortion. A bit less often, I find news articles that shows the importance of motherhood, often by heroic examples. Such articles usually make little or no mention of abortion, but they may work powerfully to protect the unborn simply by showing that it is possible and desirable to have children, even unplanned, even in difficult circumstances.

I’ll open with two articles that come to mind. The first came out today, about two college students who chose life as they pursued their education:

Pregnant at Oxford University: Juggling motherhood with studying

Please feel free to post any encouraging stories of motherhood (or fatherhood) that you may find.

 

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It’s always good to remember in the midst of difficult situations:

Your life is not about you. Your life is short, and billions of human beings have come and gone in this world, and 99.9% are forgotten other than in the eyes of God.
Your career and worldly prospects have very little to do with the big picture. The significance of your life and your issues has little influence on history outside the love God has for you, and for those around you.

So when a child is given to you, put your life in proper perspective and love the child like God does. It’s the only thing that lasts.

 

[Beryllos]

War and fertility: How losing a pregnancy in Iraq changed my approach to miscarriage

In this article, the author writes about her miscarriage, through which she came to know the Kurdish people:

I spent time with families in villages and towns scattered across north-western Kurdistan and, as I confided with the women I met about my miscarriages, it seemed to unlock a kinship I hadn’t felt before.

In Kurdistan, fertility is front and centre of family life… Everybody I met was focused on how to get a baby…

… I had noticed while writing my book that this focus on reproduction had persisted even during the most dangerous times, where Kurdish people were savagely persecuted, sometimes simply for existing.

My friend Silav was born in 1987 beside a stream in the inhospitable mountains of the Turkish-Iraqi border, where her mother hid in caves while her father was fighting in the resistance…

Those mothers (and fathers) are heroes.