This title may sound strange, but read on, and you’ll understand what it means. Following on yesterday’s post about Right to Life issues, and protecting the unborn, I have personally witnessed and prayed and marched for the Pro-Life issue over the 35 years I spent serving in US parishes. I know up close and personal how devoted people were for the rights of the unborn, and this is certainly a response to their never-ending prayers, vigils and appeals. Back in 2014 I blessed a sonogram machine in my parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Bend, Oregon. This was bought with money raised by the Knights of Columbus to encourage young women to reconsider a decision they had made to abort their unborn child. The Pregnancy Resource Center was set up to encourage pregnant women to monitor their unborn child, and when they saw the movement of the foetus, and hearing the baby’s heart-beat, the majority of the pregnant women decided to continue with their pregnancy, instead of heading to an abortion clinic. Who knows how many babies were saved because of this machine which was bought with $26,000 by the K of C members. Yes, it was such a blessing for me, blessing the sonogram machine, a true blessing for many babies.
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