Where are My Facebook and Myspace Friends? Missing Because of Abortion

Life News ^ | 8/1/08 | Maria Vitale

[wagglebee]

LifeNews.com Note: Maria Vitale is a LifeNews.com Opinion Columnist and the Education Director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation. Vitale has written and reported for various broadcast and print media outlets, including National Public Radio, CBS Radio, and AP Radio.

One of my favorite times of the day is logging onto Facebook, to see what my friends are up to.

I find some friends have posted photos...others have joined groups ranging from UK Beekeepers to Evangelium Vitae...others have become fans of Mother Teresa or Ronald Reagan...and still others are giving status reports on what they did this past weekend.

I love looking at all the different Facebook pictures. One friend has a picture which shows off her artistic talent...another posted a photo which shows off her muscles as a bodybuilder...another posted a profile picture that shows she looks almost just like she did at our high school graduation.

My friends on Facebook are all different ages--some I went to school with, others I know from work. It's amazing to see what they've done with their lives--one channeled her love for entertainment into a career as a talent scout...another tapped into her love for reading to become a reference librarian. I received an e-mail from one Facebook friend who reminded me of how I had cast her as Annie Oakley in a sixth-grade spoof of Hollywood movies.

The Facebook phenomenon reached a milestone last year, when it was reported that it had welcomed its 30 millionth subscriber. Thirty-million people, finding friends, making friends, being friends. It’s been estimated that the Internet’s social networking community may reach one billion in 2009, meaning that, increasingly, people are finding it as important to plug in as to phone home.

Just today, though, it occurred to me that a friend is missing on my Facebook page. That's the friend who wasn't allowed to be born because of abortion.

I know it's worse for Generation Y--one-fourth of their generation has been wiped out by abortion. It's more than 36,000 faces in my state of Pennsylvania, 1.2 million faces nationwide each year...50 million in the U.S. since 1973, when Roe v. Wade was decided. In other words, if all those aborted babies had had a chance to live, Facebook would be more than double its size.

As a result of abortion, we have lost family members, friends, and connections. There are millions of relationships, both online and offline, that simply don’t exist because we’ve been systematically eliminating part of our population. The greatest nation in the world has been impoverished by that compassion deficit that abortion creates.

The next time you sign onto Facebook, MySpace, or another social networking site, why not say a little prayer for the families of those on the missing list? Their lives did matter, and they should be remembered, if only for those precious seconds when you're typing in your password.

[Gondring]

I am against the importation of illegal labor.

If we pass laws to allow anyone to cross, then it will all be "legal." You have to be more specific about what you oppose.

Many claim that the illegal immigrants drive down wages here...and that they are taking jobs from Americans. Would not the unaborted have done that? Or do you disagree with the premise?

I'm just asking, not disagreeing.

[Bellflower]

The people that have been aborted are not speculation. Ask the mothers, fathers and others who grieve many of them every day of their lives. When and if you do get to heaven (and I hope you do) you will meet them, know them and love them for all eternity.

They are real people who we are missing because they were murdered.

The billions of womb people who were lost before their mothers knew they were pregnant are also in heaven. They also will be loved forever by The LORD and all who share heaven with them eternally. But, they were not murdered. Only God has the right to give and take innocent life, not man.

[Gondring]

They still coulda been on Facebook.

[exit82]

If we pass laws to allow anyone to cross, then it will all be "legal." You have to be more specific about what you oppose.

Your premise has not occurred yet.

I am against people coming here illegally. It is not theoretical--they are net social service users, and causing a drain on our society. The justice system, the medical system,the education sysytem, and the social services systems are being strained by an invasion of people who should not be here, but in their home countries.

I think that is specific enough.

We cannot know what America would be like with the missing 60 million people, It could have developed in many different scenarios.

However we know what the reality is today.

[MHGinTN]

Too many are incapable of following the reasoning. It doesn’t even help to make it plainer, like telling them that you have three fiurst grade classes in a school. One class is taken away so that only the remianing two are allowed to continue on to High School graduation. You ask them, what would the graduating class have been like if the eliminated first graders were allowed to stay in the school system? It is a blank wall to them, they see no correlation, even when you add that the class removed from the school were all shot in the head and dumped into a mass grave. The violation of the principle of ‘endowed with the unalienable right to LIFE’ means nothing to such minds, for it is the government or court which tells them what are rights.

[Bellflower]

You are right and some of them were also killed out of their rightful time because of birth control pills which cause many otherwise viable embryos to not be able to connect to the uterine wall and they therefore they are killed. Many parents will be shocked and grieved to meet their sons and daughters in heaven that died at their hands.

[Gondring]

Many parents will be shocked and grieved to meet their sons and daughters in heaven that died at their hands.

Why would they be grieved? They gave their kid a first-class ticket to heaven--being united with the Lord without delay!

Seems like the best gift a parent could give a child, if what some say is true! While that doesn't make it less of a sin of the parents, it's a great deal from the kids' point of view. After all, if they truly want to know the experiences of temporal life on this earth, and they truly are in heaven, they should be able to do so at their whim.

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[puroresu]

It’s always great to hear of young people who are pro-life!

[Mrs. Don-o]

“Friends I never knew” is not silly. I conceived two children I never knew -— they were miscarried before 10 weeks -— and I will miss them for the rest of my liife.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Human beings who were killed cannot be regarded as human beings who never existed.

---

"The Mother," Gwendolyn Brooks (1945)

Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,
The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,
The singers and workers that never handled the air.
You will never neglect or beat
Them, or silence or buy with a sweet.

You will never wind up the sucking-thumb
Or scuttle off ghosts that come.
You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh,
Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye.

I have heard in the voices of the wind
the voices of my dim killed children.
I have contracted. I have eased
My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.
I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized
Your luck
And your lives from your unfinished reach,
If I stole your births and your names,
Your straight baby tears and your games,
Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your mar- riages, aches, and your deaths,
If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,
Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.
Though why should I whine,
Whine that the crime was other than mine?--
Since anyhow you are dead.

Or rather, or instead,
You were never made.
But that too, I am afraid,
Is faulty: oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said?
You were born, you had body, you died.
It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.

Believe me, I loved you all.
Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you
All.

[Gondring]

Human beings who were killed cannot be regarded as human beings who never existed.

Agreed. And I am sorry to hear of your miscarriages. I can hope you will someday get to know them in heaven.

And I hope that anyone reading my comments understands that I am just bringing up points that I believe should be considered, as the battle isn't to convince those who are already against abortion--so ignoring these questions isn't going to cut it when they are being asked by those "in the middle" or brought up by the abortion-on-demand crowd.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I think that any acknowledgment that the dead are lost to the human community on this earth, and thus are a loss to us all, is a sound and appropriate thing.

It is not necessary to "feel" this: people are emotionally different, probably for biological or hormonal or brain-wiring reasons, and emotional sensitivity is not a moral category: "feeling" the loss of others' lives is not a moral virtue per se, nor is a lack of feeling about this a vice.

However, we should acknowledge the loss whether we feel it or not. Whether they are unborn babies, or citizens of 40 nations killed on 9/11 at the WTC, or random people being blown up by suicide bombers at a market in Israel, --- we don't know these poeple either, but it is decent to acknowledge that their deaths were the result of criminal aggression, and their absence leaves a hole in the human race.

BTW, I appreciate your reference to "It's a Wonderful Life," and I think that shows the true function of art: to train the emotions so that we do "feel" what we know: so that the truly lovable invokes love; the admirable, admiration; the horrible, horror; the outrageous, outrage; the pitiful, pity.

[Salvation]

BTTT!

[floriduh voter]

How many idiots were lying in wait for a thread about abortion to take the side of Barack Obama????? How do pro-abort idiots get to remain at FR?