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One way to influence people you will never meet is to get pro-life books into your library. This involves a fairly small time commitment on your part, but has the potential to reach many people you will never meet on this side of Heaven.
Some libraries may have boxes on their homepage where you can suggest books they should buy. Or maybe they have a suggestion box you can slip a note in next time you go.
You may want to talk to your library about their donation policy before you buy the book yourself, since you’ll want to make sure it gets on the shelf.
You may also want to think about making a donation to your church’s library, since they probably can’t afford to keep up with all the latest books—and if the person in charge isn’t pro-life, they probably won’t make these books available.
I think you’ll want to choose books that will be persuasive for “undecided” or “pro-choice” people. It should be something people will want to pick up and read and that won’t alienate them.
One book I found to be excellent—but available in almost no libraries—is Victims and Victors edited by David Reardon, Julie Makimaa, and Amy Sobie. This book breaks open the lie that abortion is necessary in cases of rape and incest, which (unfortunately) too many otherwise pro-life people accept as true. Every person should read this book.
Another excellent and persuasive read is Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion by Theresa Burke and David Reardon. It documents the pain that follows the “choice” to abort.
What books would you like to see in your library? Let us know if you’re successful at getting them on the shelf!
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Rather than suggest other books with a pastoral care approach to the abortion disaster, let me recommend a short book on the basics of conception.
“Embryo” by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefson (Doubleday, 2008) is a purely scientific and philosophical argument that the fetus, from the moment of conception, is a human being with all of the moral and political rights inherent in that status. The book contains a short scientific description of the process that creates embryos (Chap 2) and then argues what conclusions we can draw from this.
The new person is present from the beginning and is not “part of the mother”, but is an independent human being with its own genetic make-up and its own future.
Posted March 3, 2010 at 8:13 am