Today is the anniversary of Dobbs, the Supreme Court ruling in 2022 that overturned the abominable Roe v. Wade decision. In an effort to commemorate this important date and practice pro-life values, I’m donating baby cardigans and blankets that I’ve knit in recent months to a local pregnancy resource center, where they will be distributed to mothers and infants in need through care packages. (Some photos of what I’m donating are here on my Twitter, if anyone is curious.)

I believe it is important that supporters of the pro-life movement work diligently not only to produce an understanding that elective birth is the moral choice, but also to foster a culture in which it is the desirable option. We err in thinking that fighting for specific policies alone will engender a society that honors each human life from conception onward, and we should remember that there are many valuable ways to be of service to the pro-life movement.

Volunteering and even small gestures, I think, can be hugely impactful for the distressed mothers who are contemplating abortion because they feel unsupported. Maybe you organize a diaper drive, maybe you distribute informational materials outside an abortion clinic, maybe you babysit for free, maybe you coordinate meal deliveries for new moms, or maybe something else entirely.

Ultimately, the burden falls on us to disprove the pro-abortion activists who allege that pro-life supporters have no regard for the child after it is born. We must not understand ourselves as fighting against a procedure, but rather, for human beings.