Posted on 07/25/2005 7:52:35 AM PDT by JustaWoman
My thoughts today have nothing to do with the President’s nominee to the Supreme Court or with how he might affect the Roe v. Wade decision. I’m not writing about what I believe to be the very sad, fragile and even political state of human life in our nation. Neither will I discuss the act of abortion as murder. Instead, I want to take a moment to consider on how abortion is a reflection of the deception and the destruction that have invaded woman’s soul.
Every woman, whether or not she ever becomes a mother, is born with the emotional and physical capacity necessary to become one. Every woman has the capability to be a mother. She may be one to her neighbors, to her colleagues or to her friends. I’m not talking about controlling or smothering, although those can be the negative characteristics that accompany the “gift” of motherhood. There is a birthing and a nurturing that, like it or not, comes with the package of being a woman. It may not be obvious in all women. It is sometimes injured because of damaging relationships. But, it’s there.
Once a woman actually gives birth to a child, even the least “nurturing” women find a new, or deeper, maternal side to themselves. I have never had a child. But, I have watched many of my independent, driven and seemingly non-maternal friends be transformed after 9 months of carrying a child in their bodies. It’s miraculous. Nothing becomes more important, more treasured or more loved than this helpless, self-absorbed, non-productive baby. None of that registers compared to the desire to love and care for the child.
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, And have no compassion on the son of her womb?" Isaiah 49:15 (The Bible)
The question above in its context is a rhetorical one. That is, it is a virtual impossibility for a woman to forget her nursing child or, God forbid, lack compassion for the son (or daughter) of her womb. Impossible. Of course she can't.
It breaks my heart that what is meant as a rhetorical, no-brainer question has become so common that Los Angeles car chases get more air time on the nightly news than the millions of unborn children whose lives are terminated every year in our country. The unnatural has become commonplace.
What’s worse is that it is women, not men, are the most vocal proponents of abortion. We are appalled by the barbarity of ancient societies leaving their young on a wall, so as to ensure their death and of the Chinese government’s control of the number of children a family is allowed. But, our streets are full of women’s rallies and protests for the “right” to destroy the children.
What has become so injured, so distorted in a woman’s soul as to deceive her to destroy her own child?
I believe there’s much more to be said about this than I can write in one post. However, I believe that there are two primary factors that have contributed to this devastation.
One factor in the deception and destruction of a woman’s soul is the marriage of value and identity to work, specifically work outside the home. This was a failed attempt by feminists to affirm women. The reasoning was that if a woman can do anything a man can, then she should. While I agree that women are more than capable of doing what men can do, and often better, it’s silly to think that it’s what would be most fulfilling.
Check out the women’s section in your local bookstore. You’ll see titles like, When Work Doesn’t Work Anymore and And What Do You Do? as evidence of the failure of the workplace to satisfy the longings of a woman’s soul. But, as she has felt the burden to be someone valuable and important, the vision of changing diapers at home is relegated to slavery. The slave master, then, is the demanding child. How, then, could having a baby compare with the corner office?
The other is the divorce of sex and commitment. The sexual revolution and the feminist movement may have convinced the world that women are just like men in every way. It is simply not true. That hurt and rejection accompany sex without marriage is hardly worth debating. Ask someone who’s experienced it, or simply watch re-runs of Friends if you’re not convinced. I believe that the separation of sex and commitment has had harmful effects on both men and women. But, we’re talking about women today. Suffice it to say that having the most intimate and vulnerable of relationship without the stability, protection and provision of commitment places women in a very unnatural state.
So, how can a woman forget, lack compassion or even terminate the life of her child? Only the wounded state of a woman’s soul could explain such barbarity.
Any article that begins with (and I paraphrase of course) let's forget for a moment about how abortion is actually child murder to me is missing the point.
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Agreed. A real "Huh?" moment.
Did you read the entire article? The real "huh?" moment is how anyone could read the article and have any impression that it's missing the point that abortion is murder, considering it ends with
"So, how can a woman forget, lack compassion or even terminate the life of her child? Only the wounded state of a woman’s soul could explain such barbarity."
I hope you will read it all before commenting next time. Thank you.
Did you read the entire article? The real "huh?" moment is how anyone could read the article and have any impression that it's missing the point that abortion is murder, considering it ends with
"So, how can a woman forget, lack compassion or even terminate the life of her child? Only the wounded state of a woman’s soul could explain such barbarity."
I hope you will read it all before commenting next time. Thank you.
Thank you.
Perhaps this is simply about semantics.
I appreciate your passion and couldn't agree more. I believe abortion is our nation's most heinous crime and is a modern-day holocaust.
wonder how many pro-abortionists are vegetarians...
and, how many of them will march for "inhumane" treatment of animals?
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