No, Mr. President? No, Mister.

I am traveling next week with my family and with my infant son to meet with doctors, men and women highly trained in the medical arts in an attempt to find a resolution to a life changing problem with our baby's hips.

The goal, Lord willing, is to restore his hips to a normal position and allow for him to grow sockets that will give him the chance to walk and live a normal life with legs that work like you or I. We pray that this will happen. But if it does not, rest assured, we love him and are grateful every day that we have him in our lives. He is a gift from God.

All the more reason however that I refuse to stand by and allow people to minimize the meaning of my son's life, or any baby's life when they advocate the myth of "choice." Abortion of a baby is the destruction of a person, and each person you know is in this world because they were given the chance at life, both by their creation which is the work of God, and the willingness of the mother of that person to endure and give birth, regardless of their willingness to parent. Everyone was at one time a baby. Think of the best friend, brother, sister, or anyone you might not know today if that person's mother had made a different "choice."

With that in mind, again I call upon the men that this blog is directed to.

Men, we are called to act. To fight for life. By word, deed, and by faith we are charged by God in His Word to honor his creation and to stand up and defend the lives of the men (and women) whom no one will know, who will never have a chance at life, who have yet to be born, and who will not exist with us in the world every time an abortion takes place.

How we do this is not with violence, not with hatred against those who would contribute to the horrific practice of abortion, but with love and truth that our Lord has given us with which to use our example and our voices to contrast the myth that destroying unborn people is somehow an act of will that women must feel entitled to utilize. And we do this by supporting women by being MEN. Being FATHERS. Being HUSBANDS. Being RESPONSIBLE.

Rough guess, but I'm willing to believe that many, many abortions in this country and around the world would never have happened if the men in women's lives who were equally responsible for the pregnancy stood up, led, were men, and took responsibility for their own children. How many men, not women, endure the thought that a child that was theirs was aborted.

Recently John Piper produced a message through Desiring God Ministries responding to President Obama's views on abortion. It's worth watching if you have not.



The Hard Truth is that it's much easier to feel pain and loss from the death of a person whom you know, born into this world and seen with your own eyes. Much easier to want to protect a life that is known to you. Harder however to have faith that such a person exists before you can see them, and then sight unseen elevate that person to more than a yes or no answer. Men, act like a father when a gift of a child is known to be on the way and be responsible for your behavior. You will one day know your child and live and die for them. To imagine never knowing them will be terrifying. Women, get an ultrasound before even considering an abortion. Your own eyes will remind you of the life you carry, and choice will have nothing to do with it.
And if there is no man there to help you and you cannot on your own care for your child, placing that child up for adoption is a blessing to a family desperately in need of the chance at being loving parents.

Pray for the President. Pray for our children. Pray for the hearts of those considering an abortion to be open to God's grace. Pray for our men to be men.