Two of the young women in my choir are expecting their first babies early next year. This past Sunday they were talking about what an incomparable feeling it is to experience those first 'signs of life': the tiny little movements as the baby shifts position, or as he stretches out an arm or a leg inside his water-filled home. (I actually remember, when carrying my children, being completely mesmerized watching a tiny 'bulge' move from one side of my stomach to the other as the hand or foot attached to the 'mass of fetal tissue' (as pro-abortion advocates would call it) traversed from one side to the other -- and nearly being brought to tears by envisioning that precious life that was growing within me (and already showing signs of having a mind of its own :).
When I was talking with these two young women, we began to ask questions such as, 'Can you imagine a woman experiencing what you are experiencing right now, at this point in a pregnancy, and then deciding to terminate that life within her?' Both of them (and I) physically and emotionally cringed at the thought. Or a woman whose baby’s development has progressed even farther, and she has seen pictures of him moving, smiling, grimacing, sucking his fingers .... and then the woman allows this child to become the victim of a partial birth abortion? How can such a woman continue to feel at peace with herself, when every day for the rest of her life she must live with the knowledge that she allowed the skull of her innocent unborn child to be pierced with the points of scissors, and she condoned his brain being suctioned from his tiny body?
Evil has known many faces throughout the history of mankind (the Spanish Inquisition, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the concentration camps of WWII Germany .... the list is endless). But I truly believe that there is nothing more evil than partial birth abortion (the vilest 'level' of the holocaust that is abortion). Because it flies in the face of 'human-ness' and the genetic female instinct to defend and protect her young – that a mother would sanction (that she herself would order) the torturous killing of her own nearly full-term child.
These depraved 'women' perform such a violent capital crime against their own children more than five thousand times a year. And the vast majority of the criminals are healthy; their little victims are healthy as well -- and three-quarters of them are more fully developed than your friend's feisty little newborn grandson.
No matter what else I knew about her .... no matter her other lofty 'character credentials' .... if I were to know a woman who had sentenced her child to death by partial birth abortion, and who had not afterwards realized, and asked forgiveness for, the evil that she had done .... I could not lay eyes on her, or allow myself to be in her company. She represents the blackest form of human wickedness.
And being irresponsible, immoral, or uninformed doesn’t make the evil any less so.
That little man chose liberty, not death, if a body cares to notice .... First_Salute
Amen. And God bless him. (Give him a gentle hug for me, when you see him next, will you?)
~ joanie 