Charlottesville Pro-Life

Today is Sanctity of Life Sunday. Locally, you and your church can connect with Thrive Central Virginia to help equip and care for women and men facing an unplanned or crisis pregnancy.

What is the goal of the pro-life movement?

Overturn Roe v. Wade?

Defund Planned Parenthood?

Save babies?

While these are certainly necessary and urgent strategies and tactics, especially since unborn lives are at stake, the GOAL of the pro-life movement should be this:

That every child, as much as possible, is welcomed into the world by a mother and father who love each other, love their child, and love God, therefore giving that child the opportunity to have an abundant life.

We must provide the abortion-vulnerable with the kind of support that makes it less likely that they would choose abortion, even if it were legal, and more likely that they will thrive after they choose life.

Care Net, a network of 1,100 affiliated pregnancy centers, defines this approach as a Pro ABUNDANT Life strategy, based on John 10:10, where Jesus Christ declares that he came not only to give us life but to give us abundant life.

This means that we not only embrace life by reaching pregnant mothers, but we reach, engage, and train fathers of unborn children, and help couples facing unplanned pregnancies build low-conflict, healthy marriages and strong families as much as possible.

In addition, and importantly, we must deploy the Christian Church’s central and transformative mission of offering compassion, hope, help, and discipleship to those at risk for abortion outside and inside the church.

**Read more on our blog: https://www.care-net.org/abundant-life-blog/what-should-be-the-goal-of-the-pro-life-movement?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fy21_social_media&utm_content=111518_blog_what_should_be_the_goal_of_the_pro_life_movement