How are these individuals who lived nearly 174 years apart connected? One ended slavery in the British Empire by changing the hearts of powerful men and the other impacted how doctors view the unborn because she simply wanted to live. Both focused the attention of good men and women on how life should be treated.

When Wilberforce began his fight, English slave traders had already destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands African men, women and children. Those captured on the African coast were denied their human rights by evil men engaging in evil acts. Yet seemingly good and God fearing people did nothing.

Wilberforce implicitly understood that non-cooperation with evil is just as much a moral obligation as cooperation with good.

Today, we face another evil and we need another Wilberforce. Abortions in American have taken the lives of more than 48 million babies since the Supreme Court's 1973 decision.

Those of us in the pro-life moment must strive to be today's Wilberforce for the unborn. We must continue to not cooperate with this legalized evil. And we must continue to wage our battle in the courts, in Congress and legislative bodies across the nation, through direct action and in the hearts of men and women.

The author John W. Gardner said, "There occurs at breathtaking moments in history an exhilarating burst of energy and motivation, of hope and zest and imagination, and severing of the bonds that normally hold in check the full release of human possibilities."

That moment occurred for Wilberforce when he set forward on his life's journey. Little Amillia's courage and zest for life inspires the battle to establish the right to life as the premier right among all of God's given rights. She inspires another breathtaking moment in history.