For the Pro-Life Movement, Now Is the Time for Heroes
You might remember the story that National Right to Life News ran about Rai Rojas just after the 2000 election. The story was about the work of one man in those elections - - but it was really about the indomitable spirit of millions of pro-life Americans who want to see the killing stopped.
Raimundo (Rai, pronounced Ray) Rojas is a long-time grassroots worker for the pro-life movement. In 1991, he was hired by National Right to Life, and since then, has worked in various capacities: for NRL PAC, as Hispanic Outreach Coordinator, and as an at-large member of the NRLC Board of Directors.
Sometimes a person is in the right place at the right time in history. Certainly Rai was.
To show you just how much Rai's work meant to the movement, let me quote from the article in the December 2000 NRL News. Rai Rojas had vowed he would see a pro-life President return to the White House.
He implored to be allowed to coordinate the pro-life literature drop in his home state of Florida. Here we pick up the story:
"Rojas was a man on a mission: to blanket the entire state with flyers asking Floridians to vote for George W. Bush and protect unborn children.
"Being a grassroots activist, Rai began to call volunteers all over Florida. Each time a local coordinator agreed to organize a drop, he would place another pin in his Florida map.
"Every day, he watched the map fill until it seemed it could hold no more pins. When all was said and done, Rojas and his volunteers had arranged the largest pro-life election literature drop in Florida history.
"Of course, today we know Florida was the decisive state in one of the closest presidential elections in our nation's history. Every vote, every piece of pro-life literature was critical to the outcome.
"But it wasn't only in Florida that the election was decided. Rojas's work is just one example of what pro-lifers did in this year's elections. Every volunteer in every state made a difference."
When you read this article, you can't help but be greatly moved. If one person can make such an impact, then we all can. Imagine the children who will one day owe their lives to the work of people like Rai . . . or you.