Posted on 01/23/2013 1:51:40 PM PST by NYer
Pro-life, ping!
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Sad, but priceless testimonies. God bless Archbishop Aquila.
Blessed are they that have not seen but have believed.
I’d hope being Catholic had somthing to do with it, too.
Did you read the article? He was in college studying in the medical field...and momentarily not practicing his faith wholeheartedly.
Why does one have to see something is wrong in order to believe that something is wrong? The murder of babies goes to the very heart of ‘right and wrong’.
But then, there are those who have seen.
And what has been seen, cannot be unseen. And it cannot but affect those who have seen. Should they shut up about it? Is that what the very special folks who have not seen, but have believed, want? Or is it better, perhaps, that some things seen in secret should be shouted from the rooftops?
I don’t know how snarkiness enters into this.
The point is, one does not have to physically view an unborn child to be prolife and to know that abortion is against God’s will.
Conversely,there are many doctors and nurses every day who see the products of the abortions they perform and remain unfazed in the least about it.
What very special folks do you refer to?
That doesn't surprise me.
Those who have not seen, should be grateful.
“Those who have not seen, should be grateful”.
I’ll add my two cents and be done with it. When I was in college, I worked Security at a local hospital. I knew abortion was wrong; however, I didn’t completely understand the complete evilness of it. Of course, people are told, “It is just a blob of tissue”, right? Well, one evening.. I was locking up the daytime OR and there were “lab samples” waiting on the counter. I guess curiosity got the best of me and I looked at them. Intellectually analyzing abortion and knowing it is wrong is one thing. SEEING a tiny, lifeless body floating around in a secured cup is another. I saw the little hands, little fingers, little toes. No tissue.. a dead, small human being being disposed of like it was a tumor. A lot of people object when someone will post a picture of an aborted child... it is “gruesome” or “disturbing”. However, I fully believe when one sees something like I did.. all the liberal rhetoric in the world cannot sway you. Although I was pro-life before my encounter with that poor child, I became much more strong in my views. Just a thought....
The old saying..”seeing is believing”
Plus the fact that up until seeing they were told it was a clump of cells. Now they know it is a clump of cells...a clump of fully formed cells that are in the shape of a human baby.
momofthree I know what you mean.
I had my moment down at the Kentucky State Fair one year. My Mum and I went by a pro life table and for the first time I saw the body of a baby who was the result of a partial birth abortion. I freaked at the table and my Mum said “You mean you did not know?” and I said “I have never seen THIS before” I will never forget the image of that dead baby in a 5 gallon industrial bucket.
You are being judgmental. At the time, Aquila was a college student and, like so many other youth, was still trying to identify himself beyond the family. Those college experiences made an impression that not only remained with him for the rest of his life but also catapulted him into a definitive position on life.
Thank you for posting that.
Thank you.
You wrote:
“The point is, one does not have to physically view an unborn child to be prolife and to know that abortion is against God’s will.”
Except that hasn’t been the case with some people. I know hardcore pro-aborts who suddently changed their minds - or at the very least admitted pro-lifers might have a point after all - ONLY when they first took in a pro-life pictorial display. Many pro-aborts are shocked at how human (sic) aborted babies look. I can barely keep from slapping them in the head when they say that, but they honestly expect the aborted baby to look like a clump of something rather than a little human being.
Wow
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