A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

What a beautiful idea.  You take one penny, and add another, and another till  you have 50 million of them.  One for every baby aborted since Roe v Wade.  That’s $500,000.00.  That’s a lot of pennies. 

The Mississippi Baptist Convention put together this one-of-a-kind visual reminder of the number of babies who have died from abortions.

The group collected pennies from church congregations across the state and erected a large glass house to store all the pennies the size of a backyard storage shed.

Called the Memorial to the Missing, the penny-filled structure contains a plaque that encourages visitors to the Baptist convention’s headquarters — and the legislature across the street — to respect life.

“We just needed something to memorialize and help people see the magnitude of abortion over the last several decades,” Rev. Jimmy Porter, the director of the MBC’s Christian Action Commission, told the Jackson Clarion Ledger.

How many of us have seen a penny on the ground and not bothered to pick it up because it just wasn’t worth the effort?  How many of us have found those pennies to be annoying, collecting in our purses and pockets but seemingly valueless?   I have even told cashiers to keep them, because I just didn’t want to be bothered…and yet…

The plaque reads:

“Before you is a collection of 50 million pennies! Each penny represents one child who has been aborted since the Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade in 1973. A penny like a baby seems to be so small and sometimes of very little worth, but when seen in a collection of 50 million it becomes enormous.

Wow.  Who’d have thought?  Brilliant!  Absolutely brilliant!  I wish we could have one of these on every corner!  So just who is adding their two cents worth?

Convention spokesman William Perkins also told the Ledger that, “There are a number of stories we’ve heard about grandparents who walk by and saw it and read the plaque and dug in their pockets and put pennies in the memorial for grandchildren who have been aborted.”

Like the penny, this idea was so simple.  Think of the Crisis Pregnancy Centers that could be helped with this  money.  Think of the mothers that might choose to keep their babies.   

Heads I win.  Tails you lose.

A simple flip of a coin could be the difference between life and death.

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 2, 2008