If We Vote for Them to Be Born, Can We Not Hold Them Once They Are?

There’s a lot of talk about how to be pro-life on November 3rd.

But what we really need is to know how to be pro-life on November 4th.

And the next day. And the next.

Because regardless of who wins the presidency, there will still be a huge job to do.

This beautiful girl was born addicted to so many substances I can’t even remember them all. But her mama, for all her brokenness, chose life.   

But I remember in our foster training, the social workers saying, no one wants the babies any more. They used to, there were hardly any babies who needed placements, because wasn’t it a dream come true to get a fresh little bundle? But not anymore. Not since the opioid crisis. Now no one wants the “drug babies”.

And I remember learning about the cots. The cots they keep at DSS so that foster children can sleep in their social workers’ offices. Because there’s not enough foster homes for them to have a placement.

I mean we know that, right? You know that? We talk about it, we talk about how there’s not enough foster homes. But do we stop and think about what that actually means? Children are pulled from their abusive, toxic, broken homes, and instead of even being able to be put in another home, they have nowhere to go. So they sleep in their case workers’ offices. On cots.

And for all I hear about being pro-life, for all the push to vote a certain way and keep these babies alive, I have to ask myself, then why do we let them sleep on cots in offices?


Emily Hart
Emily Harthttps://sorrowrejoicing.blog/
Emily Hart is a disciple of Jesus, pastor's wife, and homeschooling mama. She is a foster mom, bio mom, and "hope mom" to little ones in heaven. Her honest and hope-filled blog is about loss and life, grief and God, and heaviness and hope. Read more from Emily at sorrowrejoicing.blog, and on Facebook.

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