Posted on 01/19/2015 3:47:51 AM PST by Kaslin
This Thursday, January 22, hundreds of thousands will march in Washington, DC in the annual March for Life. This notes the 42nd anniversary of the Roe V. Wade decision, which legalized abortion and began a barbarous era in which 57 million unborn American human beings have been lost.
As I type these words on my Apple computer, I consider the likelihood that this device would not sit in front of me if abortion was legal in 1955 when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was born to an unwed graduate student and put up for adoption.
There is one message that these “pro-lifers” who will arrive in Washington, DC will convey to their nation and yes, to the world at large.
The message reduces to two words conveyed in the Bible, in Deuteronomy – “Choose Life.”
I see a parallel between this turnout in our nation’s capital, to awaken the consciences of fellow citizens to the sanctity of life, and the huge crowds that recently poured into the streets of Paris in protest against terrorism.
The message that will arise from the streets of Washington, DC, and the message that has come forth from the streets of Paris, is that the basis of humanity, civilization, and decency is respect for and awe of the miracle of life. This must take precedence over all.
There is a deep sense everywhere that something is wrong. That something has gone awry.
Even the sick, confused maniacs who snuff out innocent life in acts of terror do so out of dissatisfaction with the world as it is and out of the most misguided sense that somehow their barbaric acts make things better.
We in America watch out of concern and wonder how we can stop the craziness.
But a fundamental part of the battle is not getting adequate attention. And the March for Life is about bringing attention to where attention is needed.
Darkness must be battled with light. Death must be countered with life.
America must show the world that America is about choosing life.
But we are not much of an example and our light flickers when within our own borders we permit the casual destruction of our unborn human life and potential.
Even worse. We allow funds of our taxpayers to support those who promulgate the destruction and darkness.
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, reports providing 327, 653 abortions in 2103 and receiving $528 million in US taxpayer funds.
Rapper Nicki Minaj conveys the anguish and confusion in discussing, in a recent Rolling Stone Magazine interview, the abortion she had when she was in high school.
“It was the hardest thing I’d even gone through….(It’s) haunted me all my life.”
Rapper Lecrae similarly has shared his pain and conveys that the anguish of abortion touches the fathers as well as the mothers. His song “Good, Bad, and Ugly” is about his guilt and pain following the abortion of a child he fathered.
More Americans must begin to grasp that abortion is not a “social issue” that sits on the sidelines of a mainstream agenda of issues of concern to the nation.
Respect for life stands at the center, not at the margins, of what our country is about. When we don’t begin by respecting life, by awe and humility and awareness of the miraculous, there is no way we can have a decent, just, and free society.
The new Congress will introduce and likely pass legislation, coincident with the March for Life, that bans abortion of unborn children at 20 weeks - 5 months - allowing exceptions for rape, incest, or danger to the life of the mother.
Let’s support this. Let’s begin 2015 with America starting to shine light across the world and providing the leadership that everyone, everywhere seeks.
Let’s show the world, and ourselves, that Americans “Choose Life.”
We are Catholics, from Mt. Washington, Pittsburgh.
They cited Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday event, but not a word about the march.
Why do I give them money every Sunday?
This is a leftist , nationalist socialist pope.
The bible in various places says that climate change was brought by God. That’s what God told Noah and warned him to build an ark. However the pope somehow has concluded that climate change is man’s doing and consequently man will suffer the wrath of God.Amazing how things change with a new man now lording it over The Basilica.
I do not think that it matters much what man does.What man can do compared to the sun and the solar wind is minimal in consequence.
I think we need a new pope.
I agree but the only way I can be of help is by going to the polls and voting for a human being instead of a dam socialist politician like so many Americans do.
You looked at the picture and thought the article was about the Pope. Now go back and read the fricken article and then comment. It does not even mention the Pope
I did read it. The article has a picture of the pope and an infant. I do not see the pope being particularly genuine in the march to save infants from abortion. He is a socialist.The pope believes that global warming is man made, which, if you need to be tutored about that, is because there allegedly are too many humans being born to populate the world which allegedly does not have the capacity to host them, the environment is allegedly deteriorating.
I do not think this bodes well for the pro life movement in terms of the pope.I stand by my comment.
Then why did you not comment about the article instead of Pope Francis? Perhaps you don’t get it that the Pope is pro life?
If the pope believes that climate change is man made and not a result of the hand of god, I doubt the pope is pro life.
According to that view, there are too many humans on earth , which is why climate change believers are in their vast majority pro abortion.
Socialism is a Utopian fault of pride and greed. It does not become a pope.Its time he moved on IMHO.
In Conn., over 90% of the church-attending Catholics, Baptists & Pentecostals are NOT regular voters.
Objectively, it is hard to see how such people are
‘Choosing Life”. Fortunately, there is no other state of the 50 that is quite like Connecticut.
Right-to-Life is a legal, political, governmental idea ... it is a question of justice and duty. Here, they have turned it into an issue of charity: Leave abortion legal, support the “right to choose”, but donate diapers and money to Pregancy Centers.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson
That understanding underlies every other consideration embodied in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It is the very basis of our rights to life, liberty, and laws to protect them.
Since the 1970's, technological advances have enabled us to observe God's tiniest creations in the womb. We no longer have an excuse for imagining that these are blobs of tissue labeled "fetuses." They are living babies who will have life and liberty if we do not "destroy" them.
At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on February 3, 1994, Mother Teresa stated: “And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
Indeed, if we cannot protect the life and liberty of these smallest versions of ourselves, even with their so-called "imperfections," then Mother Teresa's words take on significant meaning.
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