Young pro-lifers vow to give up something they enjoy Until Abortion Ends | LifeSiteNews.com: They care about the dignity of all human life, especially the dignity of unborn children. They . . . can be found in practically every humble town or great metropolis that spreads across the North American continent. And they have united together under a common cause to deny themselves something they like until the day comes when babies in the womb can no longer be legally killed.
Until Abortion Ends is a movement from a new generation of pro-lifers who are aware of the spiritual merit of personal sacrifice in the battle for the lives of the unborn. . . . The pro-lifers in the group say they believe their sacrifice will make a difference in the fight over the greatest humans rights issue in history.
. . . Founder Marion Jones, age 20, noted that the beauty of the Until Abortion Ends movement is how it has united the pro-life movement in “prayer and sacrifice. As a Christian, I believe in the power of prayer.” The group has received the ridicule of abortion proponents in the liberal media.
Editor: I'm touched by the sincerity and willingness to sacrifice of these young people. It is certainly impressive and humbling. I don't want to come off as critical, but I can't find accord with the idea that personal sacrifice accrues "spiritual merit." If foregoing Facebook or one's iPod results in more prayer for abortion to end, well and good. But is it fasting that makes a prayer more righteous?
I would point them to Isaiah 58-59 for the kind of fasting and prayer that holds God's attention. And I would pray for them to uphold and maintain the power of purity in their own lives and before their peers (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8).
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