The 50 year walk through the valley of the shadow of death is over, but not before it cost us over 63 million lives. Lives that could have resulted in political change, scientific innovation, or spiritual leadership gone because they were inconvenient to the people who created them. Despite political rhetoric and angry vitriol, abortion was never a right outlined or even intended by the Constitution. The 1973 Supreme Court created legislation through activist jurisprudence. The 2022 Supreme Court corrected the gross overreach of their predecessors putting the decision back into the hands of the states. That battle will continue on the battleground of the voting booths in each state. This podcast is focused on what we Pro-Life Christians and Non-Christians should be doing now. Our mandate since the first century has been to care for the "least of these." Whether ours or someone else's, we have a responsibility to help where we can. Learning how to parent through trauma is a good start. 

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Alia E. Dastagir, “Rape and incest account for hardly any abortions. So why are they now a focus?” USA Today. May 24, 2019.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/24/rape-and-incest-account-few-abortions-so-why-all-attention/1211175001/

Fleming, Jenna, “TBRI Empowering Principles”, Child & Family Counseling

http://www.jennaflemingcounseling.com/blog-post/tbri-empowering-principles/#:~:text=Empowering%20principles%20is%20a%20term,important%20skills%20like%20self%2Dregulation.

Fleming, Jenna, “TBRI Connecting Principles”, Child & Family Counseling

http://www.jennaflemingcounseling.com/blog-post/tbri-connecting-principles/

NCTSN Parents and Caregivers Website

https://www.nctsn.org/audiences/families-and-caregivers

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healing to your adoptive family. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. 2007.

Purvis, Dr. Karyn, Trust Based Relational Intervention, TCU College of Science and Engineering,

https://child.tcu.edu/about-us/tbri/#sthash.aGLhe8oS.dpbs

Secretariat of Pro Life Activities “Abortion is not Health Care”

https://www.usccb.org/resources/Abortion%20is%20Not%20Healthcare%20final.pdf