This has been a crazy time in my life. I’m graduating college, becoming an officer in the US military, and starting medical school. Times of transition make you put your life into perspective and question who you are. You literally have the chance to completely reinvent yourself. In my journey, I’ve decided to be someone who always stands up for what they believe in, and that’s why I’ve joined Biking for Babies.

Now, who I am has been shaped by the people in my life. I have been blessed with friends, family, and mentors who inspire me to be my best by picking me up when I’m at my worst. They give me cookies when I’m sick, bring me coffee when I’m studying, offer me advice when I’m struggling, and tell me corny jokes when I’m in a bad mood. My relationship with others has helped me answer who I am, but the more haunting question is who might have been. The tragedy of a child dying is the loss of their future possibilities. Every time a woman gets an abortion, the unborn child is robbed of their future. But have you ever realized that all of society loses the contributions that child had the potential to make. Just think, what hero never got their chance to shape our lives?

The slogan for my alma mater is, “What starts here changes the world.” This is our opportunity to stand up and be the change we want to see. Supporting Biking for Babies allows us to protect those who can’t defend themselves and to change our society. Help us make the transition from a culture of death to a culture of life. The pro-life movement isn’t just a bunch of outdated stuffy politics. It’s real people like you and me who want the world to reach its full potential. But, that will only happen if we do something about it.

–Melany Shearrer

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