Origins

Hi everyone (or anyone...)! This is a blog we're getting started on behalf of Prayer for Life at Division and LaSalle. For the backstory, every Saturday morning a group of young adults in Chicago, IL, meets on the northwest corner of Division and LaSalle to pray.

Why?

Well, I'm glad that you asked. We meet there because that is the location (1200 N. LaSalle) of the Planned Parenthood facility closest to downtown/the Loop that performs surgical abortions. There are other facilities in downtown Chicago, but this is the closest with the surgical procedure in non-emergency cases.

Why?

Oh, I see. We do this because we feel strongly that abortion is the taking of an innocent life, and because we feel that prayer can serve both as a witness for life to those women considering abortion (and the doctors and administrators facilitating them) and, being religious ourselves, can serve to draw God's presence to the location with the intention of closing it.

Why?

I think you are broken.

Are you just more religious nutjobs trying to put your rosaries on my ovaries?

No, ma'am. I would never place my rosaries on your ovaries. That would be kinda gross, don't you think? At least one or two others who join us would also refrain, but for them it would be because they don't use a rosary to pray. And because it would be kinda gross (that one just keeps on giving).

Who are you, then?

We are all motivated by our faith in God and trust for His plan for us, as well as by the light of natural reason that dictates that when a being with separate physical characteristics (especially DNA) resides within a person, that being is distinct from that person and deserves the rights that exist pursuant to its nature. We have heard many arguments for why we are wrong and are terrible people (and no one yet has figured out why I am actually a terrible person), and are more than happy to sit for hot chocolate (during winter), a sno cone or soft dring (during summer), or a beer (yes, please) and discuss it with you.

Aren't there enough of you pro-life bloggers already?

Hey, you want us to stop, there's an easy solution: make abortion illegal. I promise that I will stop. Heck, I might actually get some real work done.