Diversity and inclusion are restored to the pro-life movement in this beautiful children’s book.
When people hear the buzzwords “diversity” or “inclusion”, they may shrug off whatever someone says as mere leftist intellectual garbage. Usually, that’s true. This time, however, Bethany Bomberger shows that pro-lifers have recaptured the noble concepts of diversity and inclusion in a beautifully-illustrated book, suitable for children primarily, so that the next generation is as pro-life as preceding ones.
After all, inclusion means that the unborn child should be included in the human family. As everybody knows, legalized abortion made the mother seem more important than the unborn child or the father.
Moreover, diversity means that children who are differently-abled (previously called “handicapped” or “disabled”) should be included in the human family. Again, as everybody knows, abortion supporters and those who advocate legalized infanticide think that handicapped persons are less than human and should be killed either in the womb (abortion) or immediately on being born (infanticide).
And some people think that Nazi genocide and eugenics died in 1945! Don’t they know what the Democratic Party of 2021 supports? Guess not.
While the book is unpaginated (a major drawback for students researching pro-life literature), the illustrations by Ed Koehler are vibrant and bold. The only frightening pages are those depicting, appropriately, slaveowners and Nazi soldiers telling African-American slaves and Jews that they are “not a person”—a statement that everybody (except abortion and infanticide supporters and politicians in the Democratic Party) would find revolting.
And, yes, even adults will identify with some of the children rejoicing in their child-like behavior. I identify with the blond-haired kid, snapping his fingers, dancing with body-wrenching Greek gusto.
Children will appreciate the rhyming quatrains, a pattern dominantly followed throughout the book.
Students of pro-life literature can recall Gail Patrick Brennan’s 1979 book Alone…A Story for Children…About Abortion! as perhaps the first major children’s work to advance a life-affirming philosophy. By recapturing the ideals of diversity and inclusion, which some leftists appropriated for a restrictive and exclusionary purpose, Bomberger has added a delightful work to the body of life-affirming, pro-life children’s literature.
Note: Since Amazon collaborates with cancel culture zealots and bans conservative and pro-life books, I recommend not buying this book on Amazon. (Why give your hard-earned dollars to a company that censors books?) Instead, buy this book directly from the Radiance Foundation’s website: https://theradiancefoundation.myshopify.com/collections/books.