Two Choices, Worlds Apart

I received this e-mail today from Colorado Right to Life:

"Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM) is planning on breaking ground on a new 50,000-square-foot baby death camp on November 1, 2007. They plan to relocate from their current location, 20th and Vine Street, to the old Stapleton Airport area in northeast Denver. This new 4.2 million dollar mega-killing center is slated to begin operating in August 2008."

Here is the e-mail I just sent to a Denver city councilperson:

I have learned that Planned Parenthood is soon to begin construction of a new building at Stapleton. If this is true, I am extremely dismayed for two reasons.

First, Planned Parenthood doesn't promote much planning when it comes to parenthood. Nowadays, they are more known for providing abortions. The planning of parenthood should occur BEFORE one becomes pregnant. Aborting a baby is not planning. It is the ending of a human life.

Second, our son entered our family through adoption. He was born in Korea, and came to us, via United Airlines, landing at the old Stapleton Airport on December 19, 1994. You can see how the Stapleton site has a special place in our hearts, for it's where our hands-on parenting began on a chilly winter evening.

Have you ever thought that there are only two letters difference between the words abortion and adoption? Just two letters difference, and yet they are worlds apart in their goals and realities. I would like to continue to think of the Stapleton area as being a place of fertile ground for uniting and creating families, not a place where families are torn asunder and lives are ended.

I am so upset, I can't even think of a proper title for this post.

And to think, this is the eve of our daughter's eleventh birthday. Another life saved through adoption.