March 20, 2008 - Horton, my hero! Is it possible that Hollywood is sending a pro-life message? Not likely, but maybe inadvertently. I took my kids to watch Horton Hears a Who today and I was pleasantly surprised to hear Dr. Suess's slogan "A person's a person no matter how small".

Horton is a misunderstood elephant who one day hears a tiny small voice in a speck floating in the wind. He starts to worry that there may be life on that little speck and rescues the speck by placing it on a tiny clover flower. It turns out that his instincts are right and that there is not only one life on the speck, but a whole town of people with no sense of their own vulnerability and danger. Horton makes it his mission to protect the tiny town of Whoville from peril.

In unexplained hostility, his adversaries grow impatient with him and make it their mission to destroy that speck denying that any spark of life exists on that tiny clover flower. When the Who’s lives are endangered by his enemies, Horton, in a Christlike manner, travels through unknown terrain, traipses through jungle and desert, and finally searches through millions of clovers just to find the little still-living particle, even though all odds are against him; 3 million to one, to be precise. In the end he risks his life unselfishly with no concern for his own imprisonment and abuse but all power focused on that precious molecule of life on that bantam little clover. He begs the Who’s to make as much noise as possible so they can be heard amongst the chaos and violence surrounding them.

I couldn't help but think as the Who's were chanting "We are here! We are here!" in a rhythmic heart beat kind of way, of the little fetus in the womb, completely unaware of the hostile world around him and of all the powers already pitted against him. The only one who had ears to hear was Horton. The others couldn't or wouldn’t hear the still small pulsing of the citizens of Who. In the end, it was a kid, (no pun intended) who hears the beating rhythm "We are hear! We are hear! " on that bitty little clover and from his declaration to stand up against evil that others come to "see" as well.

Oh that people will see the message behind this movie and give voice to those too small or too weak to speak up for themselves! A person’s a person no matter how small! Hooray for Horton. He's my new pro-life hero!

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