The unabashedly pro-life LifeSiteNews.com tells the story of country music superstar Kenny Chesney’s song There Goes My Life
The song’s deeply human story deals a devastating blow to the abortion mentality, which casts an “unwanted” child as a mere disruption in its parents’ lives. It’s pro-life message has evidently resonated deeply with its audience: “There Goes My Life” spent seven weeks as #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart the year it debuted, and its YouTube video has over 1.4 million hits to date.
For many, the song cast into relief the absurdity of choosing abortion, and many gave vent to how the song made them painfully aware of their regret for an abortion, or relief at having chosen against it.
“This song came right on the radio as my wife told me she was pregnant and wanted an abortion,” one commentator wrote on the Youtube page. “It’s been a year and now our lovely baby boy is the most important thing in both our lives, and I can’t help shed tears every time I hear this song.”
The Youtube forum has been flooded with comments from mothers and fathers who saw a reflection of their own lives in the bittersweet song, and those of frightened young parents who were strengthened by the song’s example of courageous fatherhood.
Another commentator wrote, “I recently found out that I am going to be a father, and this song describes exactly what was going through my head. I am starting look forward to it and every time I hear this I cry.”
“I can relate,” wrote another commenter. “My birth parents were unmarried college students. I was adopted at 2 months old and have always considered my adoptive parents better than a kid could ask for. I thank God and my birth parents for making the tough decision not to abort me, and maybe even the tougher decision to give me up after I was born.”
To watch the video, go here. (No embedding allowed.) Make sure you have a handkerchief available…
