Sunday, January 23, 2005
Parents' Rights Now!
The Texas Rally for Life leaves no parent behind
In the face of climactic variations that must seem symbolic for the ebb and flow of societal attitudes, the Texas Rally for Life stood firmly for parent's rights at Saturday's rally in Austin.
An expected crowd of 1500 trekked nearly 1.5 miles from Republic Square to the foot of the Capitol to hear Republican luminaries, pro-life organizers, grass roots activists, and women who have tread the painful path of abortion who were all of one mind: pumping up support for the as-yet unfiled Parental Consent bill, a bill that will require the explicit consent of parents before their minor children can have an abortion.
Texas Alliance for Life's well-organized and tightly-focused program featured several recurring themes designed to animate the Texas pro-life community to action on this issue:
- Abortion is based on lies
- Women are hurt by abortion
- Godly people must be ready to intervene between abortionists and protect emotionally vulnerable, young women
- The parental consent bill this legislative session is a practical way protect young women
So, let us strive without failing for the cause of life. Affirm life, defend life, pray for life. Equip yourself for battle in the arena of ideas. Take steps to take up the cause of single mothers and the fatherless:
- Go to Texas Alliance for Life's website to learn more about pro-life initiatives planned for the current Legislative session. Contact them at info@texasallianceforlife.org to subscribe to their email updates
- Identify your state representative and senator now
- Check out Texas Right to Life's website to research all manner of pro-life issues
- Be ready to contact or visit your legislators when pro-life bills are heard and debated. As a former legislative aide, I can assure you that phone calls, letters, and, especially, personal visits from constituents make a huge impact on legislators.
Press on!
"Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow." Isaiah 1:17
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. " James 1:27
