For The Price Of Postage
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 09:44PM 
How often is it that you have the opportunity to send a powerful message in the defense of innocent life, in exchange for a minute of your time and $.42? Just such a chance presents itself on Red Envelope Day, March 31, 2009.
I hope you will join me and multitudes of other pro-life advocates who are banding together to bombard President Barack Obama on that day with what we hope will be tens of millions of empty red envelopes.
That's fifty million.
As explained here, each empty red envelope should bear this message on the back:
This envelope represents one child who died because of an abortion. It is empty because the life that was taken is now unable to be a part of our world.
This is an excellent project for Sunday School classes and entire church congregations to promote and do together, as it only takes a few moments to write the words and put a stamp on the front of the envelope. You could even use red postcards. For convenience, mass-produced labels could be used to address the mail to President Obama at the White House.
It is hoped that President Obama will receive one envelope or postcard for each child murdered by abortion in the United States of America since Roe v. Wade ... a number so astronomical, it is practically meaningless to the average mind due to its sheer volume and magnitude: 50,000,000.
That's fifty million.
And the number is rising every day at a breathtaking rate.
For these and more astounding statistics, listen to this wonderful speech written and delivered at her school by 12-year-old Lia, a brave and eloquent Canadian girl who is passionately pro-life.
As you watch Lia and listen to her speech, bear in mind that her teacher and her school's administrators all but forbade her to use this topic for the assignment. If you care to, you may read more about that here.
Please participate in Red Envelope Day! It's for the babies.
Reader Comments (9)
Wow - she is incredible. I can't believe she was so articulate and she's only 12. I've heard about the red letter campaign and have to get the envelopes.
Out of the mouths of babes. Think of all the wisdom we've lost by killing them...
Kind of makes you think of the Emporer with no clothes. So many adults seem to have their fingers in their ears "la la la I can't hear you" and yet here's this child articulating a logical, even obvious, argument. Part of the problem is that it has become a major money-making industry.
I kind of like the red envelope campaign. So simple, yet eloquent.
@ Mari ... I so hope millions of people will get behind this and participate!
@ Tracie ... Right you are; very few people seem willing to acknowledge the obvious FACT that abortion is the murder of a human being. We have become so decadent in so short a span of time ... from the moment we began devaluing life in favor of immorality.
I was inspired by your post, so I posted an essay I wrote in 2003 about how abortion not only kills children, but doesn't even help women, who are being blatantly lied to, and often coerced in to having one. It's pretty long, I don't know if anyone will stick with it, but if you do have time to read it, let me know what you think, ok?
Tracie, I sure will do that.
NOTE: If anyone else would like to read what Tracie wrote about abortion, her blog "All About Whatever" can be accessed from a link in my sidebar.
Thanks for your thoughtful comments (and kind ones) regarding my post. I am no fan of Planned Parenthood either, believe me, but I was just trying to point out how even they flip-flop with the times. Actually, my sympathies lie predominantly with the babies, but no one seems to be listening anymore (as evidenced by the lack of comments either one of us received!) so I was trying to show the whole deal from another angle. I guess no one wants to debate it, because they already know it's not right and can't defend it. But we can only try to change hearts one at a time!
Tracie ... oh, absolutely. Nobody wants to talk about anything but their pocketbooks these days, but happily mine is empty and there is nothing to talk about, leaving me free to ponder things that really matter. I'm not trying to be a smart aleck and I do not think I am morally superior because this is my viewpoint, but as you say: right is right, and people know what is right. They just don't want to do it. But as you know, someday every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Praise His Holy Name, He lifted me out of the kind of life that does not recognize the value of sexual purity, the sanctity of marriage, and the precious irreplaceability of human life. But for the grace of God, there go I.
I despise Planned Parenthood. Could you tell?
I just found your blog and enjoyed it immensely. (haven't had time to read all of your posts.)
I was wondering if these envelopes had to be gotten from a specific place or if they can just be from the store.
Hello Daniel! What a joy to hear from you! I plan to go to someplace like Kinko's or Staples anywhere else that sells stationery. The envelopes do not have to be any particular size. God bless you! Give my love to Chelsey and the children!