Author: Amber Roseboom, RLM President
Original date: February 5, 2026
…A few years back, it became “the thing” to make films, supposed love stories, that were “more realistic,” so they said. Love is messy and usually ends messy. The ideal is unattainable, so give people something they can relate to. I must not have been the only one preferring the happy ending, because these stories now seem few and far between. It also occurs to me that the greatest love stories ever told have the happiest endings. I can’t think about Valentine’s Day without thinking about Christmas.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
John 3:16.
We see this scripture draped over balconies at sporting events and hung over highway overpasses. It is easy to breeze through – yes, we get it. Then it occurred to me, as I’m sure it had to you much sooner, what is being conveyed is both deeply profound and simple.
The God who tells us He is love, loved. Then He gave. This so that we would live, it is life giving, counter to death. Love. Giving. Life. The greatest love story is the most ideal. Reality is more beautiful than we could ever imagine, and our attempts to meet it are what fall short, not the other way around.
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that “to love is to will the good of the other.” Love is giving, for the other’s good. That means it is not selfish, and it is not taking. It seems we’ve gotten things very wrong on this front. How often we hear or see, “if I’m in love, I want_____”, fill in the blank.
A perverted understanding of love inevitably leads to pain.
The most sinister counterbalance or assault on the reality and beauty of love is to equate it with death. Enter the abortion lobby.
According to a blog by the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, DC, “Abortion actually is love. Abortion actually is compassion. Abortion actually is healing. Abortion actually is selfless.” Or you could listen to a podcast “dedicated to reclaiming the way we talk about abortion,” entitled “Abortion, with love.” You could even order a t-shirt, “Abortion is love,” from the Avow Foundation for Abortion Access. They proudly proclaim that “abortion is an act of love for our communities, our families, and ourselves.”
Abortion advocates are working to convince women, girls, couples and families that abortion (death) is love. The battle of the ages is in fact life vs. death, and we see it play out in our movement.