Hurricane Katrina was horrible; a disaster that will stick in our minds for years to come. The lives lost were an immense pain felt by all, but as a nation we overcame adversity and grew in love towards one another. We see this love in the many pictures and videos of rescue workers fighting to save stranded individuals.

Two of the most heartening images I have seen have only recently surfaced. They are more than two and a half years apart, yet they are connected by Katrina’s story.

The emotion of the first video is dark, depressing. You see only flat-bottom boats and rescue workers as they carefully hold metal containers and guide their boats out of the treacherous building. It doesn’t look like much is being saved, not until you view the second image and learn that those rescue workers saved 1,400 tiny lives. The second image shows the real miracle. Here you see one of those lives, Noah Benton Markham, who was born to grateful parents on January 16, 2007.

Robert George, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, hopes that stories like Noah’s will spur more embryo adoption. In response to the notion that preborn babies are not people because they depend on their mothers George said, “An embryo is already a human being…all of us are dependent on other people.” He notes that there are around 400,000 frozen embryos that need loving parents, and the government is spending millions on programs like Nightlight Christian Services trying to get them adopted.

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