Earlier this year I had the opportunity to attend SEEK.  A conference held in Orlando put on by FOCUS, Fellowship of Catholic University Students.  While there I went to a talk about becoming active in the prolife work.  The key moment I took away from this talk was that we, as individuals, need to be active every day; because the people that are actively trying to tear you down are not taking any breaks. This hit me the hardest because while I was at SEEK, everything seemed good.  It’s a different experience from when I’m at school rather than with 3,000 like-minded and common moral people.

I got the chance to be active for the prolife work in my Law and Literature class from this past semester.  We were talking about religious freedoms on key law concepts.  The example proposed was should those, living in the United States, whose religious beliefs prohibit them from engaging in violence be mandated to register for selective service? Most of the class agreed that these citizens should be exempt.  Then I proposed a question stating that by this logic, why should obstetricians be mandated to perform abortions if it’s against their moral conscious?  Afterwards, I had to defend myself and subsequently my moral conscience against those who agreed that these obstetricians should be mandated.

And so this upcoming ride is our chance to become active in the fight for the right to life.  Those people who are actively trying to deny the right to life will not stop, so why should we?  It is important that we speak out for those who have not be given that chance, for the babies.

–Chris Melmer

Hello friends,

Living in Madison, WI, you tend to experience quite a bit of political hoopla. People divide themselves on so many fronts; one such front is the ever-so popular pro-life/pro-choice debate. Let’s think a bit about those labels: “pro-life” and “pro-choice.” I doubt anyone you know would ever say that they are “anti-life” or “anti-choice.” These terms are merely coined to gain favor for their corresponding parties–specifically the term “pro-choice.” In reality, advocates for “choice” are more accurately described as “pro-convenient-choice.”

That is the beautiful thing about Biking for Babies. We are pro-choice. Rather, we are “pro the right choice.” The money we raise goes to women’s care centers around the country, supplying them with funds to afford supplies (diapers etc) and counseling for women, thus making the right choice a bit easier to make. Instead of fighting the policy battle (which, don’t get me wrong, is imperative to our mission), we are fighting on the cultural front. If we can help women feel like there are alternatives, judgement-free places where caring people can help you choose life, then we can truly renew the culture of life in America (clever Nick, sneaking the B4B slogan into his blog post…).

This is where you all come in! All we do is ride bikes (or, in my case, drive vans). Without all of your support, we would just be a handful of crazy college kids dripping their weight in sweat across half the country. But with your donations and your prayers, we truly can make difference; it’s only with your support that we can win this cultural battle.

I wouldn’t be doing my job as “social media specialist” if I didn’t insert a little plug in here: be sure to LIKE our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter if you haven’t already. If you have, then please spread the word to your friends! All of your support–both financially and spiritually–is very much appreciated by the entire B4B crew and, more importantly, women and children everywhere. May God bless all of you, and keep the prayers coming! Together, we are all Warriors of Virtue.

Yours in Christ,

Nick