Baby Steps

Lansing, Michigan

PRO-LIFE activist Helen Alvare has traveled to all 50 states as a speaker and fundraiser. She finds that she often has to try to energize pro-lifers discouraged at the plight of their cause—except in Michigan. “I remember going there once and seeing ‘Respect Life’ on the marquee of a major hotel chain. I called home and told my husband, ‘I’m on another planet.’ Michigan has done it so right for so long— they’re famous for being good.”