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Guest Post: Teen Raises $10K to Install Safe Haven Baby Box, Newborn Saved Just One Year Later

By: Zachary Mettler

If you pay attention to the daily headlines, you’ll probably agree with me that there’s always plenty of negative, depressing news going around. In fact, I think the constant drumbeat of negative headlines can be quite toxic for us and our faith.

That’s why for this post, I’m turning over the reigns to our team at The Daily Citizen who covered a newly breaking positive story:

After a teenager raised $10,000 to install a Safe Haven Baby Box for the Seymour Fire Department in Indiana, the box has saved the life of a baby just a year later.

Topics: Current Events Tags: babies, news, pro-life February 7, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Standing for Life in the Black Community

Christina Bennett begins her testimony like this:

“I could have been a statistic, just a number. I had an appointment to die. My mother went to a clinic to have me aborted, but God stepped in at the eleventh hour and rescued me. And I’m going to tell you what He did.”

What follows is a remarkable story of God’s intervention in Christina’s life that has made her an overcomer. Far from being a victim of abortion, she has championed the pro-life cause, particularly in the African American community, which she believes has been targeted by pro-abortion advocates.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, pro-life February 6, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Pro-Abortion Lawmakers Refuse to Applaud a Two-Year-Old Girl?

At just two years of age, Ellie Schneider was likely the youngest person sitting inside the United States Capitol on Tuesday evening for President Trump’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.

Little Ellie was there with her mother, Robin, and they were both special guests of the president.

Born at just 21 weeks, she holds the distinction of being one of the youngest premature babies to ever survive. At the time of her birth, she weighed just 14 ounces and measured 10.4 inches long.

Topics: Current Events Tags: current events, government, pro-life February 5, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

President Trump Defends Life, Religious Liberty in His State of the Union Address

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address last night to a joint session of Congress was a soaring defense of many of the core issues evangelical Christians care so deeply about.

From Mr. Trump’s defense of pre-born life, his conviction to uphold religious freedom and his ongoing commitment to appoint judges who promise to strictly interpret the Constitution, the president’s speech was sweeping in its socially conservative scope and emotionally moving on so many levels.

Topics: Current Events Tags: current events, government, policy, pro-life, religious freedom February 5, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Video: A Groundbreaking Moment at the March for Life

Every year it is inspiring to see tens of thousands gather at the March for Life.

As I shared on Tuesday, this year’s gathering featured an historic moment. President Trump, the first chief executive to address the crowd at the march, delivered perhaps the most compelling pro-life speech of any president.

President Trump affirmed Scripture, proclaiming, “Every person is worth protecting. And above all, we know that every human soul is divine. And every human life, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of Almighty God.”

Watch below to catch a glimpse of the march and hear more of the president’s powerful speech.

Topics: Current Events Tags: abortion, broadcast, march for life, pro-life January 29, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Listen to President Trump on Today’s Focus on the Family Broadcast

It’s always encouraging to return to the office from the March for Life and swap stories with members of the team who attended the rally, whether for the first time or the tenth.

President Trump’s decision to show up in person turned everything on its head. From metal detectors to Secret Service on the roof-tops, the atmosphere was super-charged last Friday.

In fact, out of concern for security, Focus on the Family was even required to vacate its tent – and with it all our special hats and cookies we intended to dispense to our guests.

Topics: Current Events Tags: abortion, broadcast, current events, march for life, pro-life January 28, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

What a Day at the March for Life!

The sun is just now setting across the Mall in Washington, D.C., the site of the annual March for Life.

It’s been a remarkable day.

Amid tens of thousands of pro-life stalwarts, many of them young, this year’s assembly was unlike any of the previous 46 demonstrations. That’s because for the first time in the rally’s long history, the President of the United States attended and spoke in person.

Standing at the blue lectern behind bullet proof clear-glass panels, President Trump’s message was moving and direct:

When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God’s creation.

Topics: Current Events Tags: abortion, march for life, pro-life January 24, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Reaching Women in Crisis

Greta Henry is the director of Living Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center in Champaign, Illinois. She’s also their director of adoptions and oversees their residential program for women called Merci’s Refuge.

Last year, she asked me to come and speak at Living Alternatives to almost 1,000 workers and supporters. I was happy for the opportunity to share my heart with people who are so dedicated to standing for life.

That night, the audience, including me, also got to hear from Greta and from a young woman named Rain Pierce, who graduated from Merci’s Refuge.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, pregnancy, pro-life January 24, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

From Abortionist to Pro-Life Advocate: A Story of God’s Redemption

As a medical student in her 20s, Dr. Kathi Aultman was convinced of two things: God didn’t exist, and women deserved the right to an abortion.

She wanted to help women who were struggling with an unwanted pregnancy. And for Kathi, “unwanted” was the key distinction. Some women wanted their pregnancy. Some didn’t. Kathi felt strongly that she was helping women. She was terminating their pregnancy, not a baby.

It was while she was caring for preemies during her neonatal intensive care rotations that she realized the babies she was caring for were at the same stage of development as the babies she had been aborting.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: abortion, broadcast, pro-life January 23, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Honoring Preborn Life in 2020

Years ago, in the mid-90’s, a colleague at Focus on the Family attended the Beijing Women’s Conference. It was a global event convened by the United Nations and included a diverse level of world leaders and politicians whose stated goal was to achieve greater equality and opportunity for women.

My colleague asked a panel of well-known female political figures, “What woman’s rights are being protected? The adult female? Or the baby female? Because one of those females is taking the rights of the other.”

They refused to answer.

Topics: Current Events Tags: abortion, march for life, pro-life January 3, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura