Just Get Back To Fighting For What Is Right

Growing up in the middle of the civil rights movement in the 60's in Mississippi with a politically active family gave me a great perspective on how so many felt about the possibility of the first African American to become President. I felt and understood the historic nature of it. I wrote a few really positive pieces about Obama, as you may recall.

But, as all of you know, life is my issue. We are living in a culture of death. The more I learned about Obama and his promise to Planned Parenthood to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would destroy 30 yrs of pro-life work, I knew that he was a part of that culture of death. I wished it weren't so. I wished that at least he was moderate on the issue. But he isn't. From federal funding of abortions to partial birth abortion, he was for them all.

So there never was a way that I could get excited about how incredible it is that we have come so far in race relations. And that just made me sad.

I'm a very positive person, as you all know. I don't let things get me down. I've been blessed with a wonderful family and a wonderful life. When God called me into the pro-life movement 23 years ago, I wanted nothing to do with it. It had nothing to do with me and I didn't want to be seen as "radical." But all of you who have faith and relationship with God, knows about 'the hound of heaven." He just doesn't let up. I went into this battle against the culture of death reluctantly, but of course, it has brought me so many blessings in a hundred different ways. I met my best friends through it. I wanted more children because of it, and nothing has brought me more joy than that. That is the way it always is with God. "All things work toward good for those who love and serve the Lord" Romans 8:28. My favorite verse. It has always been true in my life.

I thought no one would be more beholden to abortion and the abortion lobby than Clinton, but I was wrong. Obama is. That is simply a fact that Obama would be proud to tell you. So today I have a heavy heart for this culture we live in and the President that we have elected that doesn't see what abortion has done to our society.

But I will move forward. I'll tell you why with a personal story. Many years ago a girl at my husband's office was pregnant with twins. She had cheated on her husband while they were separated and didn't want the children. My husband and I spent a lot of time trying to convince her not to abort. We offered our home where she could stay and offered to adopt the children. But she went ahead and aborted them.

I laid in bed that night and cried. I thought of the twins that would never see a sunset or swim in the ocean. I thought of all that was lost. I asked God how could he let this happen? We had prayed so hard and tried so hard. This work He had sent me to do wasn't working. Certainly not in society. In my grief, I heard that still small voice in my heart say, "I only asked you to fight the fight. There is free will and people choose the wrong path. You may never see laws change or hearts change. But you are called to fight the good fight. Let me take care of the rest."

It was then I realized that is all we can do. We can try to open society's eyes to the horror of things like abortion and pornography, but in the end we are a free people and we choose. In the end we all either pay for our choices, or we are blessed by our choices.

I pray that Obama will govern more moderately than his past tells us. I pray that he won't overturn 30 yrs of pro-life work.

And I will just get back to fighting for the rights of the unborn children. Because that is what I am called to do. We are blessed, not in winning, but in doing what is right. You guys keep doing what is right and let God take care of the rest.