Best wishes to all LRC-ers for a blessed holiday! I have a couple of presents to make your Christmas a bit merrier: first, here’s a short—5 minutes and 6 seconds—masterpiece from George F. Smith on the famous Christmas Truce during WWI. Mr. Smith’s video gently prompts viewers to question the identity of the soldiers’ actual enemies (hint: it’s not the poor slobs firing away at them). The film is a riveting introduction to the philosophy of freedom, and since it’s especially apropos now, you might want to forward it with your greetings to friends and family. It doesn’t hurt that its soundtrack includes the mesmerizing “Carol of the Bells”!
Second, from Jim Rodgers comes this inspiring story of a Canadian heroine standing firm against our modern-day Massacre of the Innocents:
A Canadian pro-life advocate has spent the last seven Christmases behind bars for trying to save babies from abortion. …
[Mary Wagner,] the 44-year-old pro-life advocate … regularly participates in Red Rose Rescues. These involve pro-life advocates entering abortion facilities to give women red roses, information and prayers as they urge them to choose life for their unborn babies. In most cases, the pro-lifers are arrested for refusing to leave.
In Wagner’s case, … she has spent what amounts to about five years in jail. …
That includes her last seven Christmases. …
She said one woman she met in custody had become pregnant at age 15 and was forced into aborting the child by her mother. The results were devastating: the girl broke ties with her family, fell into substance abuse and was still dealing with the effects when Wagner met her behind bars at age 29. …
The court received thousands of letters, emails and petition signatures supporting Wagner and her work saving unborn babies and moms from abortion. One letter in particular was very special. It came from a woman who decided not to abort her unborn baby after talking with Wagner. …In it, the woman said she felt “hopeless and helpless” when she arrived at the abortion facility; but Wagner showed her “lots of love” and encouraged her to choose life for her child.
“If I had obeyed the law, that child would not be alive today,” Wagner told the court.
Would that we were a nation—even better, a hemisphere!—of Mary Wagners, willing to suffer prison to fight not just the slaughter of the unborn but government’s myriad of anti-life,-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness laws.
5:38 pm on December 22, 2018
