If you’re a mom, you probably are one. If you know one, make sure she knows she’s one. Just a thought from today’s edition of The Lifeline, our new pro-life newsletter. (Sign up to receive it weekly — it’s free — here. Click here for the latest edition.)

And, more important: Do girls and young women know what mothers are capable of? With a little support? We should make sure moms have more than a little support — an outpouring of love — but abortion sells women short. Her baby is eliminated most often because she’s led to believe motherhood can’t be done. Financially, or otherwise. We had better eliminate the financial problem — as a matter of family love, friendship, being a good neighbor, charity, policy, culture . . . And she needs to know she’s amazing. Too many women — and girls — just don’t know this.

I often talk about how the Sisters of Life, who walk with mothers as a matter of their lives, celebrate birthdays with a joy unlike any other that I’ve rarely seen and experienced. They know that women and men often have never had a proper birthday, especially as adults. It might seem a small thing, but if no one has ever celebrated your birthday — if you don’t know what a gift your life is — how are you going to come to welcome a new life into yours?

Celebrate birthdays. Celebrate mothers — including birth mothers. Celebrate feminine genius — the unique gift that women are. Too much of our culture is about denying the difference, suggesting it’s something to be overcome.

Anyway, check out the Choice 42 superhero video highlighted in this week’s Lifeline and share it with some young people in your life. And sign up here for our new pro-life newsletter, too.