09/09/2025
Thoughts from the CEO
Now that two weeks have passed since the horrific shooting in Minneapolis, I feel compelled to share a few thoughts with you, our faithful supporters.
First, let me take this opportunity to start these thoughts with heartfelt compassion and prayer for the victims of these shootings and their families. We can’t let this just be a time of mere words and sentiment. Have we prayed as we ought for all involved?
Second, in my previous role as an educator for over twenty years I immersed myself in studying not only the causes, but also the ways to protect children from the senseless mass shootings that have occurred over the past twenty years and beyond. Unfortunately, starting with Columbine High School in 1999 until today, after every major event, an unfortunate thing happens – people politicize the situation and emotionally revert to their political ideology and start to claim they know the underlying cause. They decry video games, guns, mental health, SSRI’s, breakdown of the family, gender dysphoria, etc.
However, one topic that is never mentioned in the mainstream is the issue of abortion as it relates to violence in our culture. Why do I mention it now? Because I think it matters now more than ever, especially when officials from Minneapolis said that the murderer was “obsessed with killing children,” and that he “saw the attack as a way to target the most vulnerable among us.” What does this remind you of?
In many ways, a school is like a womb - it should be a place of nurturing and the total protection of children. School shootings horrify, as they should, but this violence is in some ways a microcosm of what the baby goes through in an abortion.
Again, we should feel outrage towards this situation but where is the outrage over the daily murder of human life in the womb every day in this country?
Abortion is the "silent" epidemic as the leading cause of death in America.
From 1970 to 2022 – there were close to 1000 deaths from school shootings. In that same period there have been over 63,000,000 abortions. For every 1 death in a school shooting, there are nearly 63,000 by abortion. (Add another 50,000,000 lives lost if you count the children and grandchildren that would have been born from those babies).
Moreover, the connection between school violence and abortion is maybe more direct than we realize. Look at these quotes from St. Mother Teresa and see if you agree:
“We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, of killings, or wars, of hatred. If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?”
“The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn’t learn to love but kills to solve her own problems.”
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love is abortion.”
Frustratingly, many people are desensitized to the killing of innocent children in abortion. I see a similar apathy/discouragement setting in with school shootings just as I have seen apathy regarding abortion for so many years:
“What can we really do about it?”
“It’s never going to change.”
“It’s always going to be with us.”
I must admit that since starting in this role as CEO four years ago, more than a few times I have had the temptation to fall into this line of thinking. It helps me to remember that discouragement is never from God. With Him we can do all things! (Phillipians 4:13).
Here’s where you come in.
I thank you for standing with CPCI in our work to save babies from abortion with care, compassion, and real choices. You are a source of hope in this battle. Like the abolitionists of the 19th century, we are working and praying that abortion, like slavery (and school shootings), are one day, all illegal in law and unthinkable in culture.
In the meantime, don’t let apathy and discouragement set in. Together, you and CPCI are indeed helping end abortion – one mother, one father, one precious baby at a time.
