I wanted to blog today about something that I have been seeing a lot of lately and I find it personally very disturbing. I'm fairly new to the pro-life active community. I have been pro-life all my life but until a few months ago I wasn't very "active" in the cause as I have stated here several times before. But in just the short time that I have been active in the online pro-life communities I have seen something that has been very shocking to me and I felt I had to say something. I have seen countless instances of pro-life people and groups being very rude, disrespectful, and in a few cases even downright mean to other pro-lifers.

I never expected this from the pro-life community. Now I know that when there are a lot of people involved in anything that there are going to be disagreements and differences in how people think that things should be done that's a given. But what I have seen and even experienced myself is some people that claim to be pro-life, (which to me is a cause that stands for at it's very core love) being hateful, condescending, and trying to tear their fellow pro-lifer's down. This to me is just unbelievable!  Being pro-life we are suppose to be fighting to save lives and do what is right for our fellow human beings. How can these same people that claim to love and defend life not even be civil to their fellow human beings who are fighting for the same things right along beside them?

Sure we may have differences of opinion on things in life that's part of being human. But we should be working together to help end abortion as soon as possible not focusing on keeping our own little cliques together and looking down at and others who are wanting to help end abortion too! Or taking a holier than thou attitude to others who haven't been in the cause as long as others have. These people are focusing on all the wrong things! Over a million children are loosing their lives every year in this country and the best way, the "only" way, to end abortion is if we stand and work together. Not fight each other and waste our valuable energy and time that we should be using to save lives on each other. Now I'm not saying that you have to go along with everything that someone else believes, but you should be nice to them and let them help in the fight if what they are doing isn't wrong. Just because you don't share the same religion or political party is no reason to think that other pro-lifer's can't help in the fight to end abortion! And if you don't agree with someone and want to convert them to your way of thinking do you really think you will ever be able to convince them by being hateful, disrespectful, and mean to them?

We should be willing to help our fellow pro-lifers especially the new converts and those that are wanting to start their own groups and give them tips and a helping hand. Help promote them and encourage them so that they can help us in the fight to end the silent holocaust of thousands of innocent lives everyday! There is room and a place for everyone in this fight for life! And we NEED every good person that we can get to help fight this enemy! This isn't a popularity contest it's about saving lives. It's not a business, it's not a competition. Your fellow pro-lifers aren't the enemy - abortion, Obama, pro-choice legislators, Planned Parenthood, and all the other abortion clinics are! The enemy would like nothing better than to see us fight each other. Because while we are focusing on fighting other pro-lifers we are letting them go about their business of killing innocent babies in peace. A house divided against itself cannot stand. How do you think it looks to people who haven't made up their mind about being pro-life or not yet to see pro-lifers backbiting and being hateful to their fellow pro-lifers? Do you think that this type of behavior that is going to encourage them to join the cause? You need to ask yourself if you are helping the cause or are you hurting it with your behavior and attitude.

Many people in the pro-life community are Christians but the behavior of many that I have seen at least online is many times anything but Christian behavior. I have friends who are atheists who treat people with more kindness and respect than I have seen some so called Christians treat their fellow pro-lifers. That is not right! I am a Christian and the bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. To be kind to strangers even! That is not the type of behavior that I have seen many showing to people that are pro-life just like them. This needs to STOP! You can disagree with someone without being mean and disrespectful to them. The bible says in 1 John 4:20 KJV "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"

There are thousands of babies who need all of us to be their voice for them because they don't have theirs yet and if we keep fighting in amongst ourselves they will die without one! My brothers and sisters in the pro-life cause please stop the prideful and hateful attitudes and put "self" on the back burner and fight for those children they deserve life! Stop alienating those who want to help you save lives and work with them to help end this tragedy that is running rampant in our country! Pro-life is a cause of love and it needs to be represented as one!

I have exciting news to share with you all I am going to be having two very special interviews coming up here  very soon! The first one is with abortion survivor and pro-life speaker Melissa Ohden many of you may recognize her from her work in the Pro-Life movement and others may recognize her from the TV ad that she starred in for the Susan B. Anthony List "How will you answer?" that aired during the DNC and during the Presidential Debate. Melissa's story is amazing and I can't wait to share the interview with you. She tells her story and answers many questions about everything from what it's like speaking around the world, to family, and more!

I also have an upcoming interview with Christian artist Ron DiCianni about his work and his latest painting a Pro-Life painting entitled "Before I formed you in the Womb". Ron is one of the best selling Christian artists in the U.S. but many don't know that he is also an abortion survivor. 

I have also added tons of new products to the Pro-Life Shops at Zazzle and Cafepress. I opened a shop at both companies because I wanted to try to get as much pro-life merchandise as I could out there. And I know that some prefer one company over the other. Please take a look! Help show the world that you believe that every life is precious and should be protected! Click here to visit my Zazzle shop   
Click here to visit my Cafepress shop

Here are just a few of the designs now available on everything from T-shirts, buttons, to yard signs and more! 

The majority of the proceeds from all sales will go to various pro-life organizations to help fight abortion! My purpose in making the shops was not to make profits but to help spread the pro-life message through these products that people can wear, display, and use in their everyday lives. 

If you see a design you like but it's not available on the product you want just contact me and I'll be happy to add it to the shop for you. Also if any of you have any ideas for a Pro-Life design you would like to see just let me know and I'll see if I can create it for you! 

And finally Voice for Hope is now on Facebook and Twitter! Please follow me and let others know about Voice for Hope! I truly appreciate all your support God bless you all!

I'm sorry I haven't posted on here for several days my whole family and I have come down with what I think is the flu. I'm still battling it and it's gotten worse over the last few days. God willing I will be a lot better and be able to post on here everyday like I want to again very soon I pray.

I have been looking for more good articles and videos to share while I'm not able to write like I want to and these are some videos that I have been meaning to share for a while. The first two are on stem cell research and cloning they explain exactly what they do in stem cell research including both embryonic stem cell research and adult stem cell research. They also address cloning and touch a little on the IVF (In vitro fertilization) techniques that cause the production of many embryos that are then not used and destroyed. All of these things are talked about a lot but they aren't very well understood by most people, including myself until I saw these videos. They are very informative and easy to follow so don't think it's going to be one of those videos where they use these huge medical terms and don't explain what they are talking about for people who didn't go to medical school these are not like that so please take a few mins. and watch these. You will see how truly important adult stem cell research could be for so many medical problems in the future they are making some great progress already.

I found it very interesting and telling that you hear so much about embryonic stem cell research and yet not one time have they ever been able to save a single life or help anyone with all their research. But with adult stem cell research where no embryos or anything that would destroy another life in any respect is used they are making huge strides and are already helping people with spinal injuries and other diseases and issues. Adult stem cell research is clearly the right choice and what scientists and researchers should be focusing on and not the embryonic research which has done nothing but fail to help anyone and it's destroying human embryos in the process. If you are like me and have heard about stem cell research and want to know what it really is and how it's done these videos are wonderful!