Another Pro-Life Hero — Kathy Ireland

courtesy of kathyireland.com

As a former subscriber to Sports Illustrated, I am very familiar with Kathy Ireland. Now that I am older and wiser, I have a greater appreciation for the former swimsuit model.

“My entire life I was pro-choice — who was I to tell another woman what she could or couldn’t do with her body?” said Ireland while promoting her book Real Solutions for Busy Mom: Your Guide to Success and Sanity. “But when I was 18, I became a Christian, and I dove into the medical books. I dove into science.

“What I read was astounding, and I learned that at the moment of conception a new life comes into being,” she said. “The complete genetic blueprint is there. The DNA is determined. The blood type is determined. The sex is determined. The unique set of fingerprints that nobody has had or ever will have is already there.”

On her website kathyireland.com, she promotes herself as a wife, mother and Sunday School teacher.  The website also says Ireland has provided support to single mothers who face challenges of teen pregnancy.

“I called Planned Parenthood and begged them to give me their best argument, and all they could come up with that it is really just a clump of cells, and if you get it early enough it doesn’t even look like a baby,” she said. “Well, we’re all clumps of cells, and the unborn does not look like a baby the same way the baby does not look like a teenager, a teenager does not look like a senior citizen. That unborn baby looks exactly the way human beings are supposed to look at that stage of development. It doesn’t suddenly become a human being at a certain point in time.”

Wow! Way to go Kathy! She also gives her defense on why “no justification is adequate” for an abortion unless the mother’s life is in danger.

“In that instant, your intention is not to kill but to save the life of another,” she said. “If we’re about to demolish a building we make absolute certain there are no human beings in there before we take a wrecking ball to it, but the unborn doesn’t have a voice, so it’s up to us to speak for them.

“If I see someone abusing a child I am going to stand up against that, and that’s how I feel about abortion,” she added passionately. “Women are not given all the facts. They are told it is a harmless procedure, and now it has turned into such a political football.”