A Pro-Life Music Video: You Must See This...

The video that I'm about to show I think deserves a great deal of attention. To young Catholics my age, this is the kind of production we should support by downloading it to our iPods/MP3 players, adding it to our mix lists and letting other people hear it. Let me explain:

Nick Cannon is a born-again Christian, a rapper, comedian, music producer and actor. Now, I'm not endorsing everything he has done. I simply don't know anything about him except what I've briefly read after having watched his music video - and I am only endorsing the music video, because I do know that it deserves it.

Here's what his Wikapedia page has to say about his music video:

It has attracted positive attention from the pro-life movement, praising the pro-life message of the video. While he claims the video is not meant to be pro-life, but "pro-Nick," the video is clearly political. In addition to the actual lyrics, the video includes abortion protestors, an angelic-looking Cannon, a young woman jumping up from an abortion procedure and running out of the clinic in a panic when she changes her mind, and a large crowd of children wearing "Can I Live" shirts. The music video is based on the actual story of Cannon's mother considering abortion.

Thus, the video portrays the (now very-successful) Nick singing about the time his mother almost had him aborted. It's an extremely powerful message, and fairly good music to boot (in my opinion).

That said, you can watch the video right here:



Powerball blog (which I just found) had this to say yesterday: "The video has been consistently voted in the top ten at BET's music-video rating site for weeks, recently reaching the #2 spot on the BET countdown."

Here is the website for this video (includes ringtones, quicktime/WMP format versions).

Why is this video especially important? Music videos expressing positive pro-family (let alone pro-life) themes are extremely rare, especially in the african-american rap culture. I think it's good to support the rare artists who are trying to convey this kind of positive message. So please, feel free to spread the word.

Here's a last thing to consider - this is also a perfect song to give to someone actively considering an abortion. I was reading some of the comments about this video and (I forget now where I saw it but) one woman mentioned that she had decided not to go through with an abortion and when she came back home she listened to this song and it gave her courage to face the challenge of going to term with her pregnancy.

I think that's reason enough to make sure people have a chance to watch it ... even once can be enough.