How has our country become so without conscience that people can cheer and celebrate murdering a fully developed child in its mother's womb?!?
It's just unfathomable to me.
The only difference between a child in utero at 9 months and a child in its mother's arms at 9 months is location.
It just makes no sense. A mother that aborts a baby so close to birth still has to deliver the baby! What is it going to do to the mother's psychological health to have to go through all the pain of labor only to deliver a dead baby that she had killed?!? What is that going to do to the emotional health of doctors and nurses present in a delivery that ends in silence...because of them?
How is this something to be cheered and celebrated???
Even people that are pro-choice and support first trimester abortions....doesn't this go too far for you? How long can people just focus on the "right to choose" and not on the human being that is not being chosen??
At 3 months gestation, that baby is hidden in its mother's body. He or she is is not felt by its mother. He or she has not become a conscious reality.
But at 9 months....that little one has been wiggling and moving around for months! Moms have felt their arms, legs, hands, feet, and hiccups. At that point, there is no doubt that there is another person in your body. And how can a mother...who has to deliver the baby anyway...decide to kill that child? And how can any doctor morally and ethically kill that baby? And how can politicians push for such a horrible law that in no way protects or saves women?
It's just madness. The politicians have passed something evil that is in no way meant to protect women. It's been stated over and over by obstetricians that there is never any medical reason to abort a baby at the end of development to save a mother.
I keep thinking about Mother Teresa..."Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!"
We need to pray for the women that are vulnerable to this situation. Women contemplating abortion are overcome with fear and brokenness and deserve our love and compassion.
We need to pray for our country. We need to pray for these lawmakers and politicians...because one day they will stand before God with the blood of these babies on their hands. Our world needs mercy. The people that need mercy the most are the people that don't even know they need it!
I spent the first few days after hearing the news feeling such grief and shock. It's so easy to feel discouraged in the face of such darkness. But, we are not helpless or hopeless. My small part is to offer my prayers in love to God for these moms and dads, (because dads suffer, too), for the doctors and nurses, lawmakers and politicians...and then wait for his timing. I may be insignificant on my own, but God takes the little that I have to offer and uses it in big ways. My words or arguments aren't going to change a person's heart. It's God that changes hearts and minds.
In the waiting, I do my job and I work on myself. I live my life in the best way possible so that God's grace can flow through me and I can be a blessing to other people. And when I fail..multiple times a day...I ask for mercy and begin again.
In loving our families, in loving and supporting our friends and the people that God puts in our path, we create a culture of life that will allow light to break through the darkness.
"These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace.
In the world you have tribulation, but take courage:
I have overcome the world." John 16:33
St. Mother Teresa, pray for us!
2 comments:
Read the law and learn the facts. Whether pro life or pro choice you should understand what you are commenting on before commenting. Abortions are allowed post 24 weeks up to birth to save the life /protect the health of the mother and only as determined by a doctor. The mother doesn’t get to choose to abort just because at that point. I have no issue with either side voicing their opinion...I may even generally agree with you. But don’t perpetuate lies to serve a purpose.
That’s not all the law says. The law that had been in place until Tuesday allowed abortion through 24 weeks unless it was necessary to save a mother’s life beyond that 24 week point. That part was always there. Now, the wording has changed to the “health” of the woman..which can be broadly interpreted by courts to include age, and social and emotional factors. It opens the door to abortion’s that aren’t medically necessary. It also takes away legal protection for a child born alive during a late term abortion. It also elimates protections for pregnant women and abortion in cases of assault or domestic violence. Here are just a couple of sources that I have read over the last week...and I have read many. I have no desire to perpetuate lies.
https://www.syracuse.com/expo/news/g66l-2019/01/7a5d56a87eac4/historic-ny-abortion-vote-how-law-will-change-what-it-means-for-women.html
https://www.nyscatholic.org/2019/01/abortion-expansion-act/
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