About Us
About this blog:
Aubry started the nationwide We Can't Ignore blog after she decided to get involved in the pro-life movement. After talking to different friends, she realized that some wanted to get involved but didn't know what to do, or thought that it wasn't their place to do anything. Her sister, Taryn, and her friend, Jacob, subsequently became writers on the blog. Unfortunately, Taryn is not writing anymore, but we're looking for more writers if you are interested! We realized the importance of knowing what is going on just in your own area, so we started the Washington link to We Can't Ignore. To visit the original, nationwide blog, click here.
Our Mission and Goals:
And...
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Aubry started the nationwide We Can't Ignore blog after she decided to get involved in the pro-life movement. After talking to different friends, she realized that some wanted to get involved but didn't know what to do, or thought that it wasn't their place to do anything. Her sister, Taryn, and her friend, Jacob, subsequently became writers on the blog. Unfortunately, Taryn is not writing anymore, but we're looking for more writers if you are interested! We realized the importance of knowing what is going on just in your own area, so we started the Washington link to We Can't Ignore. To visit the original, nationwide blog, click here.
Our Mission and Goals:
- ...Fight for the lives of the unborn
- ...Raise awareness about abortion, and its evils, in the Church.
And...
I got involved in the pro-life movement after I heard Abby Johnson speak about why Christians should fight abortion. God had been working on my heart prior to that--I felt the call, but I didn't want to respond. Once I heard Abby speak, and my parents talked to me, I finally gave it over to God. For a couple days after this, I knew I needed to do something, but I didn't know what yet. I did some research on abortion, and the pictures I saw of aborted babies forced me to close my computer and walk away. I went to my piano and wrote a song. The song was about a girl who had an abortion, her journey through that, and the effects it still had on her twenty years later. This was the beginning of it all. God gave me the idea for this blog, and I started it excitedly, looking forward to what God could do with it. I didn't know that God was thinking of something different than me (doesn't He always?? It's a beautiful thing!). I have written on this blog since it's founding, but only recently (September of 2011) have I begun to actually be completely active in the pro-life movement other than writing letters to legislators. I am now volunteering at my local Crisis Pregnancy Center, Life Services! It took me a while, this because I was scared. And I say that for your encouragement. I have almost nothing in common with many of the girls who become clients to places like Life Services, so I thought I had nothing to offer. Oh, if only we in the Church would not say such things to ourselves! But, God has shown me that even I, the most sheltered girl I know, can give to these girls and their babies a gift. Is it the same with you? Maybe you feel like you aren't talented enough in anything, or you mess up all the time (trust me, I can never say the right thing at the right time, and my supervisor at the Crisis Pregnancy Center wants me to eventually be a counselor??). But, God can use you! And if you are weak, He can use you even more wonderfully than if you were strong. Your weakness will show His amazingness (that should seriously be a word we use more often) even more than the strongest strength.
Jacob, Writer and Editor of We Can't Ignore
I've been good friends with Aubry for a few years now, and so when she told me she was starting this blog, and wanted me to be a part of it, I accepted . However, the circumstances leading up to the acceptance are the real story here. I've been a Christian all my life, and I've always believed abortion was wrong, but I never really felt the need to do anything about it. In fact, I didn't even really believe I was in a position to do anything about it. I knew abortion was an issue, but I didn't know how much of an issue. Then Aubry, who I am in a band with, wrote a song about abortion. It kicked off a debate between Aubry, who thought we should play the song for our youth group at church, and the other two key band members, one of which was me. I and the other band member loved the song itself, but we argued that it wasn't our place to play this, that no one would listen, that we weren't the right people to be doing this. However, during the whole debate I felt a little uneasy about my arguments. They were seriously flawed, but I refused to recognize it. I questioned myself about those arguments from that day on, but refused to give in and admit that Aubry was right. She, after some urging and some time, sent a draft of the song to our youth pastor, who loved it. Then, I had to admit I was wrong. The truth is, if we keep telling ourselves that we can't, we won't. If we convince ourselves it isn't our place to do something, we won't do anything. We can be our own worst enemy, our own road block. There is a flipside though: If we tell ourselves we can, and we pray and recognize the truth, we can, God-willing. We can be our own road block, but we can also, with God's help, be our own motor. And that is really the moral of my story.
