Moral Outcry

Police say the girl's 16-year-old boyfriend, who is the father of the child, another 17-year-old boy and Imler stole the hormone ProstaMate from a farm. The 17-year-old allegedly put a drop of it in the girl's Gatorade in March 2008. The girl's mother has said a friend told her daughter about the drink's contents later that day.

I think it was providential that today I unexpectedly ran into Father Frank Pavone outside a hotel in Washington, DC. I got to pray with him briefly and encourage him for bringing leadership to a crisis that many of you may be familiar with.

Bound4LIFE has exploded recently, especially in Canada! And as a result the media is drawn to our stand. That’s not to say that the media likes us – no. On the contrary, they don’t. But they do like the way our red LIFE tape looks on camera. Seriously, that’s totally fine. Without meaning to, the media speaks our message to an entire nation. It’s brilliant, really.

 Every once in a while you stumble across a story that leaves you speechless, and this, for me, is one of those stories. Meet Myah and her now 11 week old baby girl Faith.

My name is Myah. I'm 23 years old and a single mom to a very special little girl. 

When I was 19 weeks pregnant, I was told that my baby had no brain. This condition is known as "anencephaly." I was told that my baby was only alive because she was attached to me, but that she couldn't survive on her own. The doctor said that I could continue the pregnancy safely, but that my baby would die shortly after being born. Or I could choose to terminate the pregnancy then, which would mean being induced at 20 weeks and letting my baby die without ever seeing or holding her (I don't even want to know what they do with babies in this case). Well, to some people this would be a difficult decision, but it wasn't for me. I knew there was nothing to gain by terminating the pregnancy and I already loved my daughter more than anyone else in the world. Even if she was unconscious like the doctors said and lived for only a few seconds or minutes --even if she was stillborn --it was worth it to me. And so we began our journey...

That, I think is the kind of justice that I’m looking for — somebody who respects the law, doesn’t think that they should be making law ... but also has a sense of what’s happening in the real world and recognizes that one of the roles of the courts is to protect people who don’t have a voice.