Today, Roe v. Wade overturned. A great day albeit much more work to do. I’d like to share a post which provides perspective from a number of angles. I believe it’s merited as it addresses 10 considerations that requires one to think about the evils of abortion and how America morphed into a place where we dismember unborn children by the thousands and throw their body parts on a metal slab. This is my manifesto in support of the unborn.
Consideration #1
The great tragedy of our time is that a woman’s quintessential role in the creation of life has been corrupted by abortion. The murder of innocent life – and the related denial of the beauty and reality of motherhood and family in God’s divine plan – has been elevated to the high altar for worship by a society hardened by a toxic culture, ego, narcissism, and selfishness. As a result, blindness, ignorance and pride becomes like a glove on the hand, desensitizing the woman to the violent reality beyond those “clinic” doors as she reaches for the handle.
A woman who aborts should never be condemned as they are part of our family. They need to know that God’s loving mercy and forgiveness is unfathomable. We all have experienced anxiety related to major life decisions and we all make monumental blunders. That is our shared humanity. It’s understandable then that some women feel trapped and confused as they enter an abortion facility. The choice propaganda is everywhere. They are likely ill informed. But if one does not show compassion towards them even while sharing the truth about abortion, we risk turning them away from the truth rather than drawing them towards it.
By choosing to eliminate the life within their bodies, women will destroy their own humanity and suffer for the rest of their life. In Veritatis Splendor, Pope St. John Paul II expresses that it is actually the one perpetrating the intrinsically wrong act that is first of all deformed by evil. This should be part of our message.
Consideration #2
Satan is a perplexing element of existence, seemingly a part of reality’s scaffolding. It’s as if he’s a universal constant – like gravity. With the skill of a dancer, he moves among us. Floating. Hunting. Scoring. And the mother with child is a prime target. Never successful at destroying the Mary-Jesus alliance, he maniacally pivots to the vulnerable surrogates – destroying millions of lives, both literally and figuratively, with glee.
