The pro-life mantle of Irena Sendler is up for grabs

For decades a hero has lived under the radar of the media. Irena Sendler saved 2500 babies and children from the Holocaust. She died today in Poland at 98. This Youtube video tells the story of a group of students in Kansas who uncovered her story in 1999, wrote a play (Life in a Jar), started a website, and flew to Poland to meet this remarkable lady in person. Check it out.

Hollywood needs to make a movie of her story and they need to call it "Life in a Jar." (Irena wrote the names of the babies and children she saved on paper and buried the names in a jar under an apple tree right before the Nazi's came to arrest her). The pro-life movement ought to adopt her memory, grab her mantle and continue her mission of saving babies from the death camp.

In South Dakota, I nominate Leslee Unruh to be the first recipient of the "Irena Sendler Award." Like it or not, like her or not, more than any other person in our state, Leslee Unruh has done more in the last thirty years to rescue children being led to slaughter. (For those of you who are Biblically illiterate, the last few words in that last sentence I borrowed from Proverbs 24:11.)