Stop the War

against the Young!

The Abortion Toll

As of 8/15/2008 50,369,737

MBA Calls on Youth

To ‘Say Yes to Life’

By Dennis Howard, President

We’re calling on all Americans, but especially young people who believe in life, to stand up for the unborn the way our founding Fathers stood up for the Declaration of Independence.

That’s the reason for our “2008 Campaign for Life."

We recently passed the 50 million mark in the number of surgical abortions since the abortion boom began.Since then, we've aborted 160,678 more innocent future citizens. We’re looking for pro-life Americans, young and old, who will stand up for each of them just the way we would stand for any other innocent victim of gratuituous violence.

A cynic once said, "One death is a tragedy, but one million is a statistic." How sad a comment that is! In fact, a million deaths is a million tragedies, and 50 million is a national tragedy of enormous proportions.

Think about it! if you saw a little kid being beaten to death in a dark alley, you wouldn’t just stand there, would you? You’d call the police. You’d do something. All we’re asking is for you to do what you can do to help bring the pandemic of abortion to an early end.

Your action can be very simple. Pray. Spread the message by telling friends about this website and sending them a link to http://www.movementforabetteramerica.org. Sacrifice by sending a small donation. Every dollar will be used to help educate others about the critical nature of the challenge that confronts us. It costs $450 for the average abortion; but it only costs us about $25 to change a heart and mind. That estimate is based on actual results from our teen seminars, ad campaigns, and other education programs.

Americans are famous for acting when any helpless creature is in jeopardy. Just ask any rescued puppy. Yet more than 50 million of America's helpless children have had their lives brutally terminated by abortion, and far too many of us have stood silently by.

We’re especially calling on young people because it is their generation that has been under attack for the last 40 years. And it is their generation we must depend upon to change the direction in which America has been going for the last four decades.

Fifty million abortions are equal to the population of our 62 largest cities. It ‘s as if we had been nuked by some invisible enemy and every last person in those 62 cities had been slaughtered. And if the toll from IUDs, RU-486, and abortifacient contraceptives is included, that number climbs to nearly 120 million.

That’s 40 per cent of our total population. If any other enemy had done that to us, is there any question that we would have retaliated against them with all our might? Just look at our reaction to 9/11 when the toll was less than the number of abortions that occur in a single day.

But the most crushing blow is what the abortion boom is doing to our younger generation. Abortion is essentially a “war against the young.” That 120 million toll is equivalent to two-thirds of all the babies born since the Baby Bust began. That has to hurt America's economy and America's future.

Let's not claim we love our young people, and then exterminate them before they have a chance to be born. The womb was designed by God and nature to be the safest place in the whole world. We've made it more dangerous even than death row.

Eliminating that many people has cut the youth market in half. It has dramatically changed the forces of supply and demand in the economy and deeply affected the family and society.

It is the younger generation that is going to have to work twice as hard and pay twice as much in taxes as the one before it. They will pay far more into Social Security and Medicare than they will ever get out of them, if they manage to collect anything at all.

But the real problem is not just abortion.

It is that “we, the people” have allowed a small, vocal minority to intimidate the rest of us into compliance with their anti-life agenda. They dominate our media, and control one of our major political parties, and the other appears too fractured to mount a cohesive front against it.

They have even managed to intimidate our moral and spiritual leaders into fearful silence in the face of evil. Orwellian thought control with a smiley face is a slippery enemy indeed.

The price traditional institutions like the Catholic Church are paying for this passivity is mind boggling. There are 12 million “missing Catholics” as a result of abortion, plus another 15 million who aren’t here because of abortifacient contraceptives.

That compares to just 18 million Catholics who attend church every Sunday. What a decline from the late 1950’s when the Catholic Church was growing at 5% to 6% a year!

Our research shows that there are still 200 million Americans who consider themselves pro-life compared to 80 million who are pro-abortion. This “silent majority” must be silent no more.

Our “2008 Campaign for Life” calls for all Americans of good will to take these simple steps:

1. Help break down the wall of denial that keeps abortion alive. We need to end the moral relativism that says killing an unborn child is just a matter of “choice.”

2. Forget the media. We the People have to assume responsibility for educating ourselves and our friends and families on the very real consequences of abortion – morally, spiritually, economically -- and on the kind of future we expect to leave our children and grandchildren.

3. We have to identify the real victims of abortion . . . the 120 million “missing” Americans and the younger generation from which they came. This “war against the young” must end.

4. We must rally the younger generation to this cause. Half of the generation under 40 has been eliminated by the abortion boom . . . the same toll taken by the Black Death in Fourteenth Century Europe. It is time to join hands – young and old -- and raise a great hue and cry against it.

5. Make a commitment to pray, sacrifice, work and witness for life especially in this election year. To do nothing in the face of evil is to cooperate in its triumph. By all means, vote only for candidates who are unambiguously pro-life.

6. Help spread the word about this campaign. If you will forward this to 10 friends . . . who will tell 10 friends . . . we will have no trouble reaching millions of Americans who still believe in the Declaration of Independence and in their God-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of genuine happiness.

For the full text of Dennis Howard’s call to young people, just click on the pdf link to the left below.

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To facilitate this campaign 2008, we are encouraging local Meetups for Life. The first of these Meetups is starting in Morristown, NJ, on July 12 at 2 pm. For more information, go to http://prolife.meetup.com/138/calendar/8211963/
or email me at mbaforlife@gmail.com.

Welcome to 2008

Campaign for Life

by Dennis M. Howard

The pro-life movement certainly needs a miracle . . . because that’s what it will take for it to make real gains this year. Remember that we are dealing with something cunning, baffling and powerful. Abortion is so contrary to the nature of women and the human family that it cannot be rationally understood. Without help, it is too much for us.

But there is a God Who holds all of humanity in His hands. We need to find Him now in prayer and repentance, and seek His protection through patient, humble prayer. And that is the starting point of our proposed campaign of Prayer, Fellowship, Study, Communication and Action.

Here is what will make this campaign new and different . . .

“Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it.” We need to pray first for our own conversion from the million subtle ways moral relativism and secular materialism have invaded our lives through television, technology, and the media. Even our churches are affected. That’s why conversion is the first step to winning the moral and spiritual battle.

We must also pray for the mounting toll of victims . . . over 50 million surgical abortions in the U.S. alone, and 1.5 billion world-wide. If you include all other abortifacient methods, the real count is more than double that. So we are asking people to pray daily alone or in family groups, in prayer groups at church, in front of abortion clinics, or in public parks.

One prayer group of ten people meets every Saturday to say the Rosary for Life . . . in 20 minutes they send 500 Hail Marys heavenward on behalf of the unborn at risk that very day. We encourage folks to say each prayer for a baby and a Mom who are at risk right now.

2. It thrives on Fellowship.

This is urgently needed by everyone involved in the lonely, uphill struggle against abortion and for life. We cannot sustain the effort all alone. We need to share our experience, strength and hope with each other or we will falter. Start a local Meet Up for Life group, or join an existing Respect Life or other group. Do it for the fellowship as much as for the activism. We all need the friendly exchange of ideas, action, news, and yes, prayer, to be sustained.

3. It is built on study and research.

We need study, research, and the constant exchange of news and ideas if we are not to get stuck in the “same old, same old” rut. We need the vitality of such exchanges if we are to attract others, especially young people. Invite speakers, exchange information, try new ideas and your group will remain vital and energetic. Welcome newcomers. Soon you will realize how much there is to the pro-life movement in terms of issues, economic, social and institutional impact. It goes beyond saving babies. It also involves saving our churches, our culture, our civilization.

4. It reaches out through creative communication.

Carrying the message to others is next. What good does it do to hide your light under a bushel? But make sure your message is positive, compassionate, and far-reaching. When you are talking to new people, keep it personal, friendly and targeted to their situation and needs. We’re here to win friends and influence people, not just to score debating points.

These days, communication means making your presence felt on the internet through emails, blogs, websites, YouTube, Facebook, etc. The better you are at this, the more effective you can be. A veritable communications explosion is taking place. But be careful. Technology is a two-edged sword. It can lead as many people astray as it can bring together for effective action.

5. It results in action.

Action can take many forms at the local, regional and national level. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Work with existing groups where they are filling a genuine need. Help others get started where needs are going unfulfilled. The Movement for a Better America tries to do both. We’re not in this for medals, but to help Him achieve the victory. What is ultimately at stake is the salvation of humanity in Christ Jesus, Our Lord.

To facilitate Campaign 2008, we are encouraging local Meetups for Life. The first of these Meetups is starting in Morristown, NJ, on July 12 at 2 pm. For details, go to http://www.meetup.com/138/ or email me at mbaforlife@gmail.com.

© Copyright, 2008, Dennis M. Howard