Why pro-life; what about all the other needy people in the world?

I have decided to start by answering a question put by a commenter on a news article recently.

Why all the fuss over a clump of cells?  If you really cared about people you would be campaigning for those living, breathing, thinking feeling people dying every day around the world.

1. A fetus (young one, baby in the womb) is not a clump of cells any more than you or I are.  Our whole life experience can be boiled down to chemical and electrical signals being fired around our bodies.  A fetus might not have had time to build up the connections in the brain an adult has but an unborn baby is just as human as you or I, only smaller.

2. There are many, many worth causes in the world, many people in need, many lives being lost everyday but if I gave money to every cause I would be broke and each cause would get a pittance from me.  Instead my husband and I have decided how much money we will give and then decided the few place we think it will do the most good.  You may have different priorities and that is fine.  And just as my money only stretches so far, so does my time and energy.  Do you think Wilberforce campaigned for fifty different causes?  Or was he sold out to the one thing that mattered most to him?  I have a feeling those who have changed the world are the ones that ate, slept, and breathed their cause not the ones that gave a token acknowledgement to being for or against.

3. I believe I can make a difference.  Right now we are six weeks from a state election.  The policies of the current government are on trial.  Will we reinstate the ones who legislated for abortion up until birth with no protection for babies or women?  Or will we say no to this legislation and vote for candidates who respect life and respect women?  So for the next 6 weeks at least I will be doing all I can to make sure people who will overturn the 2008 abortion laws are in power after the election.

Do you know what the current law is?  Do you know who voted for and against it?  Do you know why I think these laws are not only anti-life but also anti-women?  Follow me as I explore the issues and make an informed choice this November.