Protect Children of All Ages

The shooting in a Catholic school by a transgender individual that took the lives of two innocent children and wounded several others is a horrible tragedy for all involved. It's a tragedy for the confused and hurting individual who took their lives and for those who were innocent, who through no fault of their own, are no longer with us. It's a tragedy for the parents, families, church, school, community, and everyone whose lives would have been touched if not cut short.

It's a tragedy every day when children's lives are lost. Sweet innocent children with faces and names and personalities and futures we will know nothing about because their lives are cut short. We grieve for them, too. And we are trying to stop holding the door open for those who will kill them. Children smaller and younger need the same protections we want for their older siblings.

Is it alright to cut their lives short?

We have become so accustomed and so numb to the needless deaths of children every day that we are hardly outraged. We can get outraged over the new kind of mutilation of those children before they reach adulthood, but do we really care about those same children tortured to death before they reach birth?

These children getting oxygen through an umbilical cord until their lungs are ready, their hearts pumping, their brains dreaming, their hands grasping, their faces smiling and grimacing, their arms and legs moving away from an abortionist who will kill them - their lives cut short are a needless tragedy, too. Especially, because we can stop them from dying.

If these same two children had been killed prior to birth, would they be mourned? Would their faces and features be splashed all over the national news? Would someone be asking who killed them? Would someone be calling for surgical clamp control or blaming a political party for allowing just anyone to buy surgical clamps?

It is wrong for anyone to pull out a gun and shoot at innocent people. And we are particularly outraged when, like this one, it violates both school children and the sanctuary of a church. Can we get equally outraged at those who pull out surgical clamps to tear apart the innocent by violating a mother? Are their deaths any less tragic?

We can be outraged and saddened when children of any age die an untimely death. All children are our future. They all want to live. They all have dreams and a lifetime of potential ahead of them. They will be our next leaders, pastors, nurses, teachers, firefighters, military, and taxpayers. Isn't it in their best interest (and ours) not to kill them?

My heart goes out to the parents, families, friends, community, church, and school that has experienced this senseless tragedy. They will never be the same. My heart also goes out to the parents, families, friends, community, churches and schools who have experienced the loss of children we hadn't met, yet. Our lives will never be the same.

National Day of Remembrance for preborn children lost in the 50-year abortion holocaust is Saturday, September 13th,

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