Book of the Month
Book of the Month
Now I’m a Big Girl and Now I’m a Big Boy, Judy Bruns, CoCo Publications, 2016, $7.99
Very young children enjoy books focused on themselves and these two are winners, with cute illustrations and an engaging topic. The rhyming words introduce young children to a baby in the womb, while the illustrations show them the month-by-month growth of the child.
“My brain started working while my fingers were stubby; I looked kind of funny, curled up and chubby!” explains author Judy Bruns. Then ultrasounds are introduced: “Incredible pictures from before I was born, found me pleasantly posing, abounding in charm.” In just a dozen pages, children learn that they are precious and loved from the very beginning. There are girl and boy versions of the story that differ only slightly.
The National Education Association teachers union is unabashedly pro-abortion. The union’s Family Planning Resolution I-17 promotes “reproductive freedom.” The union supports abortion at any time during pregnancy and for any reason. Union delegates in 2013 defeated an Amendment that would have prohibited dues money from supporting Planned Parenthood.
But some delegates and former teachers oppose abortion. One of them is the author of these two books that aim to help young children understand their own time in the womb. Author and activist Judy Bruns is a board member of Teachers Saving Children, an organization with the mission to educate teachers and others about the sanctity of human life.
The fight against abortion is won by changing hearts. The Teachers Saving Children exhibit at the NEA convention presents models of the baby at each month of gestation, from conception to birth. Volunteers also get as many life-like baby dolls into the arms of NEA delegates as possible, to remind them that abortion is the killing of a child.
Young people are naturally against abortion until someone can manipulate them into thinking it is acceptable. The more educated they are about the issue, the more likely they are to resist reeducation. Millennial voters, those under 30, are mostly pro-life according to several recent polls. They are a generation that has seen babies in ultrasound images and understands that neonatal medicine has enhanced the viability of those born prematurely.
As conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby wrote in the Boston Globe in June of 2015: “In a sense, every American born since 1973 is a survivor of Roe vs. Wade. Perhaps that explains why, however young people might label themselves, abortion is a choice so few of them are prepared to take.”
