pro life

After receiving the typical deluge of 'new faith-based movie coming soon!' marketing emails from The Maximus Group, my wife and I decided to go watch October Baby last night.

I'll just offer a few observations here, as I don't want to get into a full-on review, especially since there are hundreds of more-detailed reviews online. To preface this review, I'm going mostly on techincal/production quality merit... the story was compelling, and the movie is worth watching, but I don't feel this movie was worth a full $10+ ticket price at a movie theater.

Last night I was in attendance at 40 Days for Life St. Louis' Benefit dinner, and was happy to hear about a new initiative, the St. Louis Coalition for Life, to help put an end abortion in St. Louis (and Missouri!), and to raise awareness about other life issues.

Browse around their website and check out some of their upcoming events. This coming year, the 39th since the passage of Roe vs. Wade, promises to be interesting, as Missouri is one of the states with only one Planned Parenthood providing abortion 'services' (the one at Forest Park Pkwy in the Central West End.

Now here's a music star (and TV show host) I can sympathize with:

"The greatest gift on earth is a child" ...

<Reporter:> Would you like to a dad? <Nick:> "I mean, yeah, that's the purpose of union and gettin' married, to have a family. We'd love to expand!"

(Source).

The Bilingual version of the PROLIFE wristbands have arrived, and are available for sale via the Vida Humana website (English | Español). You can still order the original PROLIFE wristbands through the wristband website.

I am pleased to announce that, within a month or two, a Spanish version of the popular PROLIFE Wristbands will become available. Vida Humana International affiliates will be distributing the wristbands, first to Latin American nations, and then, hopefully, to other nations. The new wristbands will be bilingual, pronouncing 'PROLIFE' on one side, and 'PROVIDA' on the other, and will be the same color blue as the original PROLIFE Wristband.

Over 100,000 youth and adult-sized PROLIFE Wristbands have been sold since my sister and I received our first 10,000 in November of 2004. For more information, please visit the PROLIFE Wristband website. Please pray that the success of these wristbands will help to spread and strengthen the right to life throughout the world, no matter what language a person speaks!

I just wanted to remind anyone who has forgotten or enlighten anyone who doesn't yet know about the PROLIFE Wristbands. I have a picture of what one looks like on the sidebar of this blog, and I wanted to post some new information on my blog so more people would know about it.

As of right now, there are four nationwide vendors (three even accept worldwide orders!), three of which sell both adult- and youth-sized wristbands. Two of them accept credit card (in addition to personal checks and money orders). The original vendor, the St. Louis Pro-Life Office, still only sells the adult-sized wristbands, but I recommend you go through them if possible, because I'm sure they do many great things with whatever money they earn from the wristbands, and they are close to where I live!

My sister and I have just received our final shipment of wristbands - 10,000 youth-sized (180 mm circuference) PROLIFE Wristbands, to be exact! If you would like some, we are selling them for the extremely low price of 25¢ each, for quantities of 50 or more (sorry, we can't sell them in smaller quantities), plus a small shipping fee.

Here's a size comparison of the youth (180mm) and adult (208mm) sized wristband:

A front-page article in the St. Louis Review: Siblings Make Wristbands for Life

I will continue to update the 'PROLIFE Wristbands in the News' page as more stories/mentions come in. My sister and I are relying entirely on word-of-mouth for the spread of these wristbands, and it is encouraging to hear a kind word or two.

Have a Merry Christmas!

For those of you who haven't heard:

PROLIFE Wristbands are here!

These wristbands are made of durable silicone rubber, are waterproof, can fit most any wrist (they stretch) and, most importantly, they proclaim to the world that you are a PRO-LIFE Person! Click on the above link to find out how to purchase one (for only a dollar!).