The Chance of a Lifetime

She was eight months pregnant, when an ex-boyfriend pulled out a gun and shot her preborn baby.

In Colorado, preborn children have no protections. There is no prosecution for a man who intentionally kills a preborn child with a gun or with an abortion scalpel.

These are the same sweet babies with faces and personalities we wouldn't shoot if they were born. Literally the same babies.

If a child were handicapped, ill, or helpless outside the womb we wouldn't poison them or pull them apart into pieces.

Why do we close our eyes and let the innocent be tortured to death? What makes this holocaust in America any different than the holocaust we fought in Germany?

I can jump through all the state hoops. I can put my name and face out there to run through the mud of human opinion by people who've never met me. But for what?

God's people have to decide to repent. To pray to save these children. To care about them enough to save them. To treat them like they have themselves been treated.

We have to think about someone else for a change - to love them. What is so difficult about that?

There are plenty of couples wanting to raise them, if we can just get them to the point of birth and let them keep living.

I get that no one wants to admit they were wrong or feel guilty for the children who have died on our watch. I get that.

But we cannot know grace until we know we need it. We cannot find heaven until we realize we don't deserve it.

And we cannot accept these sweet gifts from heaven unless we're willing to let love and faith conquer the lies and fears of the unknown.

We do not have to have answers or be able to look into the future of who they want to be. They just want to live.

We need to become more human - like they are. We need to create a world where children are welcome to share it with us.

They need us only a little while. They will soon learn to walk, ride a bike, go to the prom, dance at their wedding, and hold their sweet babies. Let them share their dreams with us.

We need to be brave for them. Hope for them. And rescue them. We cannot rescue them with good intentions. The best strategies in the world cannot save them.

It will take all of us - each of us - willing to change the law. To stop the poisons and the gunshots and the scalpels with the ammunition of our pens and the armies of our hands.

Like the Declaration of Independence, we need to put our penmanship to paper to change the world.

This is our chance of a lifetime to give children their chance of a lifetime. Out of 6 million people in Colorado, we need only 125,000 of them to care.

Their mothers will thank us later when they trade a few months of discomfort for a lifetime of love. We may be close enough to hear the giggles along the way.

When the petitions come out sometime over the next few months, I pray that God's people line up to sign them and to take them out into every community across Colorado.

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The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Galatians 5:14)