Posted on 01/23/2013 1:51:40 PM PST by NYer
It is definitely one of those moments in life you will always remember. For a long time, if I saw a woman with a newborn... I saw that little baby in that cup. Perhaps... if people really saw abortion up close and personal.. it would decrease dramatically. The left’s rhetoric has always been to de-humanize the baby. “It” is called “product of conception”, tissue, zygote, embryo, fetus. Cold, clinical words that mean nothing. Seeing a little BABY... callously murdered is life changing (at least to us). Hugs, Mom
But just tossed in with everything else in the Hefty bag -- half-eated hamburgers, newspapers, Christmas cards (yes!)--- there were damp wads of gauze. And when we examined those wads, we found the bodies. I reemember one arm and hand, strecthed out the length of my little finger. Livers, legs, heads with little blue eyeballs.
Maybe I should say I was shocked, but I was not. I was numb. I kept thinking, "Lord, have mercy." Yeah, 26 years ago and I now I've got tears in my eyes.
But just tossed in with everything else in the Hefty bag -- half-eated hamburgers, newspapers, Christmas cards (yes!)--- there were damp wads of gauze. And when we examined those wads, we found the bodies. I reemember one arm and hand, strecthed out the length of my little finger. Livers, legs, heads with little blue eyeballs.
Maybe I should say I was shocked, but I was not. I was numb. I kept thinking, "Lord, have mercy." Yeah, 26 years ago and I now I've got tears in my eyes.
I think there is the matter of perspective that you seem to miss -this in addition to the knowledge that men are imperfect.
I would agree with you IF all men possessed a well formed conscience and were not susceptible to the lies and temptations that evil presents.
However, the reality, as evidenced by the many abortion advocates strongly implies your assertion false.
One can not oppose and eradicate the evil in men unless one appreciates what evil does to men -in some cases, blinding them in thought until in sight evil is recognized for what it is.
Because before the image/event many truly do not think of it as a baby. That is when you are raised hearing that its ok for the 1st trimester, so so for the second and bad for the third, as I was, you believe what you are told in the home.
Its very nebulous and you don’t think of it truly as a baby, the “mass-o-cells” logic holds sway. And there is reason and debate.
Then, if you are like me, one day on a business trip to CA you see a protestor holding a gruesome sign showing precisely what it is we are talking about.
In that moment all the BS you were told growing up vanishes, and is unable to return.
But, a simple lesson in biology could also do the same. A sperm meets an egg. Immediately there is cell division and a multitude of chemical reactions that proceed for nine months in the case of humans and the end result is a baby.
Interrupt that process at any point and there is no baby.
Furthermore, most individuals, from their earliest days, have an innate sense of right and wrong. This has been psychologically proven through experiments time and again.
Back when I was stupid I came here trying to push the “pro-choice” position. But Freepers came back cordially and shot down every argument I knew, reducing them to tatters.
I thank them and I thank God I saw the light.
Somehow, we must end this scourge on life.
No capitulation, ever!
Perhaps the one story that continues to amaze me, however, is that of Serbian abortionist, Stojan Adasevic.
In describing his conversion, Adasevic said he "dreamed about a beautiful field full of children and young people who were playing and laughing, from 4 to 24 years of age, but who ran away from him in fear. A man dressed in a black and white habit stared at him in silence. The dream was repeated each night and he would wake up in a cold sweat. One night he asked the man in black and white who he was. ‘My name is Thomas Aquinas,’ the man in his dream responded. Adasevic, educated in communist schools, had never heard of the Dominican genius saint. He didn’t recognize the name."
When we think of Thomas Aquinas, we normally associate him with his Summa. It is intriguing to see his intervention on abortion.
In Aquinas' time (13th century) even the best scientists had little knowledge of prenatal development, and were completly unaware that the body derives its form from its genome (DNA structure).
Aquinas said that the willful killing of a being identifiably human and alive (by the best scientific knowledge at the time) is always murder; and that even IF the "form" of the body were incomplete (and therefore the hypothesis of "delayed ensoulment"), abortion would still be a grave moral evil because it violates Natural Law which reveals that a person is coming into being.
I'm mentioning this in detail, because some people (erroneously) think that Aquinas OK'd early abortions because of a delayed ensoulment hypothesis. This is false. They lacked diagnostic tools to observe that an embryo is identifiably human AND alive as soon a fertilization takes place. The moral doctrine--- that killing this entity is gravely morally wrong at any stage --- was never in doubt.
This still makes a difference, because scientists toss around the possibility of designing "artificial human life forms, partly-biologial android robots, human-chimp hybrids or other horrors. (No joke, they're talking about trying to recover Neanderthal DNA and impregnate a woman volunteer with it, for the sake of scientific research!) (Truly despicable.) Even if there were any hypothetical doubt about whether the resulting entity were truly human, it would still be murder to kill it.
Says Aquinas.
Remember tomorrow will be the March on Washington protesting abortion and the killing of innocents.Hundreds of thousands will march in spite of the weather.You can watch the whole March on EWTN.Please pray for the success of the March.
Amen, Brother!
Thank you for that historical perspective on St. Thomas Aquinas. Now the Life Site article makes total sense.
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