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You can save pre-born lives this summer
Yesterday
I stood on a sidewalk holding a sign. It read, Pregnant? Need Help?
I watched as the crowds hurried by and saw, on our other signs, what abortion does to a pre-born child.
I asked a young woman what she thought of abortion. Without slowing her pace, she said “I just had one last week.”
Every day, three hundred pre-born children are killed in Canada. A staggering number which, we too easily forget, isn’t just a number. That number represents children – children who were killed.
Yesterday, I met the mom of one of those little boys or girls. I almost cried as I watched her walk away. I have cried since. I cried for the mother who lost her greatest gift and for the child who was mourned only by a stranger.
Today
As I think about this child, I see lack. The lack of advocates – we need more people standing up on behalf of these little ones. The lack of time – we’ll never get last week back; we don’t get another chance to save that precious child. The lack of education – Did she know there were resources available and people willing to help? Did she recognize what the abortionist was going to do? Did she know what “her choice” cost?
It’s not that we did nothing. We were on the street last week and the week before. We’ve been out week after week, month after month. Yet somehow, the something we did was not enough. We missed this mother.
With approximately 300 pre-born children killed every day, we are living in the midst of one of, if not the, single greatest human rights violations in human history, with the victims entirely reliant on people like us to advocate on their behalf. With no legal restrictions in Canada protecting pre-born children, their lives may be extinguished through all 9 months of pregnancy, with little or no explanation required.
We must engage every Canadian on the issue of abortion. Every pro-lifer must recognize their responsibility to help. Every pre- and post-abortive woman and man must understand the value of their sons and daughters. Every pre-born child must be safe in their mother’s womb.
The hard truth is, it’s too late to prevent that mother from choosing abortion; too late to save her little boy or girl. But it’s not too late to mourn for them. It’s not too late to share the truth. It’s not too late to protect others like them.
This is the least we should do.
Tomorrow
Another little girl will be killed. She’ll be all alone with no one to advocate for her, no one to protect her.
Another little boy will be killed. No one will mourn. No one will cry. No one will bury his little body.
Unless we act.
We cannot change yesterday but we could change tomorrow.
Intern Catharine Jordan talking truth about the unborn in Halifax harbor.
Join us
The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) is a national, educational pro-life organization committed to ending the killing of pre-born children by proactively engaging Canadians with the visual reality of what abortion does to pre-born children, together with compassionate and compelling conversation skills to change minds, save lives, and transform our culture.
We are excited to partner with churches, pro-life groups, and individuals to equip pro- lifers with the conversational tools and experience they need to have productive conversations with their friends, family, and members of their community. You can learn more about how to bring members of the CCBR team to your community by contacting us at [email protected].
Additionally, CCBR will be hosting our world-renowned paid internships where pro-lifers can join for either four months (May-August) or two months (July-August) this upcoming summer to receive expert training from global pro-life leaders, before joining CCBR’s team of experienced activists for daily outreach, changing hearts and minds of men and women throughout the Greater Toronto area.
This incredible program will provide you with the confidence you need to engage in your own compassionate and compelling conversations about abortion with all those in your sphere of influence, all while making some of the best friends you will ever have as you serve shoulder-to-shoulder with like-minded men and women committed to ending the killing of pre-born children in our country.
For more information and to apply, go to endthekilling.ca/internships.
Quiana Casamayor is a CCBR staff member. Pictures graciously supplied by CCBR.
News
Saturday Selections – Nov. 29, 2025
One reason God gives us each other
None of us are God, so we aren't going to know it all. And sometimes we aren't even going to know what it is that we don't know, as John Cleese notes below. That's one reason God gives us the communion of saints so we can support each other (Eccl. 4:9–12), including learning from our brothers and sisters. As Solomon tells us in Proverbs 12:15: "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice."
Speak, even if they don't listen?
Ezekiel was commissioned to speak God's truth whether His people listened or didn't. The results aren't in our hands, but His.
Only two-thirds of US Christians believe we've all sinned
If evangelizing to non-Christians is intimidating, George Barna's latest study shows there's plenty of evangelism that needs to be done among those who profess to be Christian.
The lesbian seagulls that weren't
For a while there, Christians who were too afraid or too embarrassed to cite the Bible, would instead try to point out the wrongness of homosexuality by highlighting how "unnatural" it was. And that is certainly true – God designed our parts to interact a certain way, and if you try the other it can result in incontinence.
So it was a thing when an island of lesbian seagulls was discovered – look, homosexuality in nature, so it is natural!
But now it has turned out, the lesbian birds were probably due to some chemicals being sprayed about, and once that stopped, the lesbianism stopped too. So, disappointment for the LGBT advocates.
That doesn't make the "unnatural" argument one to fall back on again. We live in a broken world, so we can be certain that somewhere in Nature homosexuality exists – shucks, as this author notes, some animals eat their young, so Nature shouldn't be our guide for how things should be. And even the world knows that. So let's point them to where guidance can be found, with God, and in His Word.
The secular liturgy of Goodnight Moon
"Here’s the point for Christian parents. Goodnight Moon reads like a bedtime prayer for a reason. Brown’s experimental writing was part of a modernist movement to shape an alternative moral ecology for children.... The next time you read Goodnight Moon with your kids at bedtime, don’t stop at 'goodnight noises everywhere.' End your routine with bedtime prayers..."
The Gray Havens' "Sirens"
The lyrics are worth a read too!
One taste of the sound
From the Sirens in the water
And I'm thinking I should get out
The sharpest sword and suit of armor
So I can be ready to strike
But I pause, one more time
One last taste of the sound
Then I'll cut these Sirens down
But as they sang, I forgot
They were death, so I brought them my heart
To be filled, and I followed them
No trace could I find
Of any joy the Sirens promised
They had found a way with a lie
To turn what's good and should be wanted
Into what is highest above, all desires and loves
Til’ my heart would obey
Whatever it wants whatever it takes
To feel alive and set free
Only bound to the sea
Where the sirens are leading me on
Hold on, hold on, my heart
You once were full and sang of grace
Hold on, hold on, my heart
You've tasted joy that's more than this
Hold on, hold on, my heart
You once were full and sang of grace
Hold on, hold on, my heart
You've tasted joy that's more than this
Today's Devotional
December 5 - Quirinius
“In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered
. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria.” - Luke 2:1-2
Scripture reading: Luke 1:1-4
When we read Luke 2 each Christmas, we treat verse 2 as an afterthought. When we read this passage out loud, we hope we won’t trip over Quirinius. We >
Today's Manna Podcast
Jesus welcomes sinners; Rejoice with Him!
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