Positive responses on social media that continue to share pro-life message

Image credit: All Ireland Rally for Life

It’s been heartening to see a series of our pro-life social media posts recently receive positive responses as we continue to share the pro-life message online.

Throughout the last year, on the social media pages of Life Institute and the All Ireland Rally for Life, messages that promoted the pro-life culture continued to receive widespread engagement and discussion from people of all ages online. 

A post from earlier in the year on Life Institute's page depicted a sculpture of an unborn baby carved on a mountain in Colombia. As you can see this post reached over 117,000 people organically, with over 5,000 engagements and was shared by hundreds and prompted many to express their awe at this beautiful image of the unborn child.

In the lead up to the Christmas period, another post from All Ireland Rally for Life that gained a noticeable amount of attention was an image of two girls at the Rally for Life with their own homemade posters, one saying “I am more than a clump of cells” and the other saying “pro-woman, pro-life”.

The post received a good response from users and was shared across Facebook.

“Well done  Proud of you people ” one commenter said.

“Thank you ladies for supporting life. ..and may the "Lord of Glory" bless both of you” said another.

Another post that became popular was one with a poster saying “abortion isn’t healthcare” as well as another of two ladies holding the Rally for Life’s poster “abortion kills our future”.

“Well done to all involved. God bless you all amen ” said one person on the latter.

Whilst a post on social media might seem small, the increase in response to any pro-life activity online, such as liking and sharing, can work wonders in changing hearts and minds – it might even save a life. Three years ago, Life Institute reported on how Matt Walsh, writer of the Blaze and the Daily Wire, had received an email from a woman who changed her mind on her abortion after reading one of his articles that was initially published in response to an anonymous woman who had publicly shared her decision to have an abortion on a Reddit post.

“The role I played was very small but I’m grateful to know that at least one thing I’ve published in my years of doing this made a difference for at least one family. Most of all I’m grateful that one child was spared the fate 60 million others have suffered,” Mr Walsh had said in an X thread.

Sandra Parda of the Life Institute commented: “This is amazing to see how much positive response social media posts gather on pro-life issues. With life issues being a prominent topic at the moment, it is important that the pro-life messaged is shared in every way possible, for even just the simplest post or the smallest act can save a life!”