A "Humane" Abortion

National Catholic Register ^ | 7-27-12 | Matt Archbold

[marcbold]

I am a father of five children here on Earth. And three more who, with God's mercy, I hope to meet in Heaven someday. I think about those children sometimes (often). It's not something I talk about often (ever?) but I mourn them.

You don't know when grief from something like that will hit. Sometimes it's when someone tells me they're shocked that I have five children. I say, "Yes I have five children." And I secretly think of the three.

Sometimes it's random moments when the kids are getting into the van and I think of the seats that aren't filled with laughing messy children. It stops me for a second and I have to accept it all over again and go on. I have to remind myself to breathe. Remind myself to step. And step again. And I do.

But sometimes...a lot of times...it just hits at night when it's quiet and dark. And I think and wonder if there's something I could've done. Maybe called the doctor sooner or maybe called for another opinion. Something. Anything. And I think of the times I put my hand on my wife's womb and perhaps didn't know that at that moment my son or daughter was dying in the womb and I didn't know. It makes me feel small. And powerless.

I tell you this because I read something today that was like a smack in the face. Just horrifying.

Bloomberg News reports on a story where a mother learned that her unborn child had a defect:

Jennifer Hercegovac and her husband picked out a name, set up a nursery and sold her business so she could be a stay-at-home mother. Then, when she was 18 weeks pregnant, an ultrasound detected fetal heart defects...

[GraceG]

My idea of a humane abortion requires a Time Machine, a bottle of RU 486 and an airplane ticket to Hawaii....

[knock knock]

Yes Hello, does a Stanley Ann Dunham live here?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh dear. I get your point, but it’s a brutal attitude anyhow. No baby is a “bad” baby. You know that.