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Help Promote the Pro-Life Message to Young People: Vote for a Pro-Life Video to air on MTV

This post is from Edward Lee, a young man who believes he has a vocation as a priest and who is now discerning whether to join the Legionaries of Christ or to be a diocesan priest. He indicates in his blog, "Hail, Thou Star of Ocean," that there is an opportunity to influence young people for life by having them watch a video with a pro-life message on Total Request Live. We as pro-life people can have an impact with young people by voting to have this video aired.

Hail, Thou Star of Ocean

Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Life Video on MTV

Here's an incredible opportunity to get the pro-life message on MTV. Even if you don't watch it, millions of young people do and you have the chance to get a video on Total Request Live that shows strongly the pro-life message. It's already been shown on BET.

It's called Can I Live by rapper Nick Cannon. The lyrics are down below. It's a true story about how his mother wanted to abort him, but chose life. The video shows his mother lying in the abortion clinic, next to all the instruments, and Nick pleading (sort of like he's a spirit) for her not to kill him, saying "that's a life inside you, look at your tummy/what is becoming Ma, I am Oprah bound/ you can tell he's a star from the Ultrasound." In the end, she jumps off the table and runs out of the clinic, with Nick thanking her for the gift of life.

HERE'S WHAT YOU DO! GO TO VOTE AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE (YOU CAN VOTE AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT), AND PASS THIS ALONG; WE NEED THOUSANDS OF VOTES TO GET IT IN THE TOP TEN, AND IF WE DO, IT WILL BE AWESOME!

Here are the lyrics:

NICK CANNON (f/ Anthony Hamilton)LYRICS

Can I Live

[Talking]
Talking Ma
I know the situation is personal,
but it something that has to be told
as I was making this beat
you was all I could think about;
you heard my voice

[Verse 1]
Yeah Just think Just Think
what if you could Just
Just blink your self away..
Just Just wait just pause for a second
Let me plead my case
Its the late 70's Huh
You seventeen huh
and having me that will ruin everything huh
its alot of angels waiting for their wings
you see me in your sleep, so you can't kill your dreams
300 dollars that's the price of living, what?

Mommy, I dont like this clinic
hopefully you'll make the right decision
and don't go though with the Knife Decision
but it hard to make the right movewhen you in high school
how you have to work all day and take night school
hopping off da bus when the rain is pouring
What you want morning sickness or the sickness of mourning?

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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 8:53 AM