Miranda is 28. Her younger brother had Downs Syndrome, which motivated her to pursue a career teaching and helping special needs children in public schools. Her students loved her dearly.
Miguel is 32. His mother’s love of music inspired him to pursue life as an artist. He was accomplished on piano, guitar, saxophone and cello. He won 5 Grammy’s before he turned 30, all for his amazing fusion of Latin rhythms and blues soul.
Bruce is 36. He recently finished his residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and was one of the most gifted neurosurgeons in the United States.
Jiao turns 16 this year. She was exceptionally gifted academically and was looking forward to her first year at Georgia Tech next fall studying physics.
Stefan is a senior systems engineer with NASA. He’s the only one who would’ve seen the warning signs of the imminent disaster that destroyed the Columbia space shuttle and its crew. He could have aborted the landing in order to allow the crew to repair the damaged tiles.
Brian is 28 and is one of the most gifted evangelists ever. He has already travelled to 39 countries and spoken to as many people as Billy Graham.
Hope, age 31, is a pediatric nurse at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Her winsome bedside manner brings a smile to both her young patients and their families.
Xavier, age 35, is a Professor of History at the University of Texas. His classes, where he brings events of the past to life, are so popular that each semester there is a wait list of several hundred.
Deirdre is only 18 but she loves science, especially geology. While working on her masters in a few years, she and a couple of others will discover an alternative energy solution that will change the world.
Phil, age 30, is a middle school social studies teacher in Fort Wayne, Indiana. By the time he would’ve retired, he would have instilled his contagious love of learning into thousands of our children.
Sharon is 25 and an amazing negotiator. Her debate skills earned her a job as a Senate staffer right out of college. In 2020, she’ll become both the youngest and the first women president.
Frank, age 36, is a small business owner. His restaurant and bakery is a favorite hangout of kids in his Chicago neighborhood. Many of the kids look up to him as a father figure because he always makes time for them, despite his hectic work.
Mark is 30 and Maria is 28. They are just your average American family. But John, the oldest of their four kids, would pursue a career in medicine and discover the cure for cancer in 2034.
Eleanor, or Ellie as her friends caller her, is 10. She is very charismatic and could light up a room just by being there. If she were still here, her mother wouldn’t have become so depressed and spiraled into self-destruction ending in suicide.
These are just a few of the possible stories of a handful of the 40 million people that were aborted in the last 37 years in the United States since the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v Wade. Each abortion represents a voice that didn’t get to sing, hands that weren’t allowed to work, minds that were not allowed to dream, hearts that were not allowed to love. Abortion has killed future school teachers, doctors, police officers, mayors, secretaries, business executives, lawyers, bakers, factory workers, baristas, students, professors, engineers, flight attendants, soldiers and peace makers. It has taken from us brothers and sisters, sons and daughters that we will never know. When we complain about our problems and a lack of solutions to those problems just remember all the human potential that has been wasted in the name of convenience and choice. Abortion is not just the murder of an unborn life, it is slowly draining away the potential and life blood of this country.
We are killing ourselves.