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.

[exit82]

According to the statistical record available, there have been 50 million abortions in the united States since 1973.

These records do not include the State of California, which does not publish abortion records, nor provide them to the CDC.

The numbers we have are provided by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which is a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood. Therefore, the tendency to underreport is already built-in.

But the fifty million that is even acknowledged happened over 35 years. That means that females aborted from 1973 to 1991 would now be in childbearing age range. One could project that another 10-15 million of second generation children are missing due to the cutting off of female children in the early years of abortion.

Now we are missing 60-65 million people, or more due to the undercounting already in the reporting system.

That 20% of America.

And that’s one reason we are importing slave labor in the form of illegal immigration.

[Arthur McGowan]

There’s nothing “illogical” about noting the fact that, once a person has been murdered in the womb, he will never be a teenager, etc. Once people are murdered, they stop getting older. Society has to do without their ideas, labor, beauty, creativity, etc.

And society has to suffer the negative effects of having millions of people walking around suffering from the guilt of having murdered their own children. This has a very negative effect on society, because people who have sunk into despair by murdering their own children, are prone to sink into despair about other matters. A society that suffers from despair on a mass level is going to suffer more anxiety, depression, violence, etc.

Mass despair is the main reason Europeans are going to be extinct in about a century, because despair is the opposite of courage—and courage is what it takes to marry, have children, love those children, etc.

[raybbr]

Facts, by definition, have merit and aren't required to be clever.

Good. So at the same time let's lament never having met the rapists, murderers, bank robbers, child molesters, etc. that were never born, too.

Since the greater proportion of abortions (in my opinion) can be attributed to liberals and the great unwashed let's not forget to honor the missing criminals in our world.

[raybbr]

Facts, by definition, have merit and aren't required to be clever.

Please, the whole thing was meant to be a "clever" way to get our attention.

[wagglebee]

It means we'll see how many others think it's silly.

Well, thus far, you and Gondring (which hardly comes as a surpire) think it's "silly," but that's it.

However, if you think it's so "silly" why are you on the thread? If I think a thread is "silly," I just ignore it.

It seems more like you are trying to label this thread as "silly" in order to deemphasize the FACT that 50 MILLION INNOCENT AMERICANS have been slaughtered since 1973.

[wagglebee]

Since the greater proportion of abortions (in my opinion) can be attributed to liberals and the great unwashed let's not forget to honor the missing criminals in our world.

And your true colors come out.

[wagglebee]

Please, the whole thing was meant to be a "clever" way to get our attention.

ALL titles are meant to get attention.

[Arthur McGowan]

Let’s see: sophistry.

1. A baby is murdered in the womb.

2. Therefore, that baby will never be a teenager, young adult, or a husband or wife, and will never have children of his own.

3. Over 50 million babies have been murdered in the womb in America.

4. Therefore, about 50 million people who would have been born in America during the past 35 years were never born.

What’s sophistical about any of those statements? Please explain what’s sophistical about #1, #2, #3, and #4.

[wagglebee]

You are correct.

[raybbr]

And your true colors come out.

Huh? Only good people have been aborted?

PLease describe my "true colors".

[Arthur McGowan]

“Good. So at the same time let’s lament never having met the rapists, murderers, bank robbers, child molesters, etc. that were never born, too.”

If the fact that abortion kills potential rapists, murderers, molesters, etc., is a justification for abortion, then you have to admit that if we killed all the kindergarteners in America, that would be justified, too, because if we did, we would also be killing lots of potential rapists, murderers, molesters, etc.

[raybbr]

If the fact that abortion kills potential rapists, murderers, molesters, etc., is a justification for abortion, then you have to admit that if we killed all the kindergarteners in America, that would be justified, too, because if we did, we would also be killing lots of potential rapists, murderers, molesters, etc.

Oh, brother! Now you sound like the author. Projecting and making accusations.

[wagglebee]

Huh? Only good people have been aborted?

PLease describe my "true colors".

Are you some type of eugenicist who would prefer a "test" be performed on all pregnant women and then kill the babies that are not up to your standards? Perhaps you believe that we should go a step further and sterilize "undesirables" to prevent them from procreating.

[gwilhelm56]

**”Please, the whole thing was meant to be a “clever” way to get our attention.”**

Either way, it worked! Got our attention, and I have no problem with “Clever Comparisons, or even Ridiculous Hyperbole”. With that said, I agree with the premise and the content of the article.

[Liberty Wins]

And society has to suffer the negative effects of having millions of people walking around suffering from the guilt of having murdered their own children.

This guilt is the reason for the extreme antogonism of the left towards pro-lifers. Even within the Republican party, there is intense bitterness among the "country club" Republicans towards grassroots conservatives over this issue.

[wagglebee]

Even within the Republican party, there is intense bitterness among the "country club" Republicans towards grassroots conservatives over this issue.

There's plenty of it here on FR as this thread demonstrates.

[raybbr]

Are you some type of eugenicist who would prefer a "test" be performed on all pregnant women and then kill the babies that are not up to your standards? Perhaps you believe that we should go a step further and sterilize "undesirables" to prevent them from procreating.

No way are you getting away with that! You made a statement claiming I showed my "true colors". Now describe them. Don't try softening your accusation by phrasing it as a question.

[humblegunner]

what they might have been interested in, cures for cancer they might have discovered, etc.

Crack they might have smoked, crimes they might have committed...

Not all people are good.

Even fewer cure cancer.

[wagglebee]

You made this statement that clearly demonstrates your views:

Since the greater proportion of abortions (in my opinion) can be attributed to liberals and the great unwashed let's not forget to honor the missing criminals in our world.

[Antoninus]

That's not what the headline said. It talked about "friends I never knew". It's silly as heck.

On the contrary, I think it's a perfectly valid point. Everyone born since 1973 is a survivor who could have been legally killed at their mother's whim.

If you're a single guy, just imagine that the woman who would have been the love of your life was aborted in 1975...