Now here's a pastor in South Korea who actually installed a dropbox outside his front door for unwanted infants. (Which turned out to be unpopular with the authorites, oddly enough.)
Lee Jong-rak's position: "This is a facility for the protection of life," reads a hand-scrawled sign outside the drop box. "If you can't take care of your disabled babies, don't throw them away or leave them on the street. Bring them here."
Mother Teresa said, "I will tell you something beautiful. We are fighting abortion by adoption - by care of the mother and adoption for her baby. We have saved thousands of lives."
In the rotunda at the US Holocaust Museum are written the words, "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live." There's no shortage of holocausts around us, and sometimes it's a little tiny holocaust right in our own neighborhoods.
Read Lee's story, courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, here. Next time you hear the excellent phrase "choose life," think of this guy who's choosing not just life, but the lives no one else wants. And praying for him might be a really good idea, too.
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