Posted on 11/25/2019 8:13:36 AM PST by Morgana
The Knights of Columbus in Belleville, Ontario, recently had a tombstone placed in St. James Roman Catholic Cemetery in memory of babies who have been killed by abortion. After posting photos of the memorial on Facebook, the group experienced angry backlash from Facebook users and a women’s group that may have caused the Knights to remove their original post.
The tombstone reads: “Life is sacred” along with Jeremiah 1-5: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I consecrated you.” It also states: “In memory of all victims of abortion.”
The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic fraternity founded in 1882. The photos the group originally posted on Facebook might be gone, but The Post Millennial said that the comments on the images ranged from supportive to offensive. The 18 males in the photo were called misogynists and ‘crusty white boomers,’ among other insults. In all, it received 3,300 reactions, of which about 20 percent were the angry emoji.
“We’re not engaging in any sort of debate about it,” said grand knight David Cameron. “This is our belief and we don’t feel we’ve done anything wrong… it speaks for itself.”
Memorials like this one are popping up around the world as people want to remember the lives lost to abortion and show respect for these victims just as society traditionally does for other people after their deaths. But that’s not how so-called women’s rights groups see it. Elissa Robertson, the coordinator of Warrior Women of Quinte, actually held a demonstration against the memorial, claiming “[i]t was designed to shame people.”
Robertson also claimed the memorial “ties into patriarchal values and this idea that women’s bodies are meant to be controlled by men. It’s a broader issue that ties into violence against women, it ties into health care, it ties into safety.”
She couldn’t be more wrong. A memorial for someone who has died is not about shaming other people. It’s about the lives lost. If women feel shame about having had an abortion, that’s a normal reaction and one they are feeling not because of a memorial, but because of their own emotions tied to the act of abortion. Women who have abortions are at an increased risk of depression, drug and alcohol use, and suicidal thoughts – whether a memorial is built or not. And in a macabre sort of way, even some abortion facilities offer women remembrances of the babies they choose to abort.
As for the memorial being tied to patriarchal views and violence against women, Robertson is missing the mark. Abortion was legalized by men and tells women that in order to be successful in life they need to kill their children, block their fertility, and be more like men. Abortion tells women that they cannot parent their children and earn degrees or succeed in their careers. Abortion itself is an act of violence against women and children which dismembers one human being and causes both physical and emotional scars for another. Women have been hospitalized for complications of the violent act of abortion, and rape survivors who chose abortion have said their abortions were worse for them than rape, because they were the ones inflicting the violence.
As for health care and safety – abortion is neither health care nor safe. As previously stated, women are hospitalized on a regular basis for injuries sustained during abortion procedures, and they are also dying from legal abortion. Any act that kills a human being or treats pregnancy as a disease is not health care.
Building a memorial to the victims of abortion is the right thing to do to remind people that these were innocent lives stolen through an act of violence and that women and children deserve better. And these memorials don’t just honor the preborn, but the mothers as well. They, too, are victims of abortion.
Next thing you know, the Left is going to get upset over what is preached over the pulpit. Oh, wait . . .
If you don't mean it, don't post it.
If you mean it, then defend it.
This whole post, experience shrill complaint so then retract, is stupid and smacks of lack of sincerity, or lack of conviction.
No placer for us,
Someday there’ll be no place for us,
No place for us to pray, work or play,
Someday, someway, they’ll find an excuse for killing
A new path to make us illing
Someday,,.
The Knights are supposed to be an Army, standing up for Catholicism and Catholic values. If they can’t handle a little bit of whining and moaning on Facebook from the usual suspects, they may as well turn in their swords.
” Jeremiah 1-5”
People who try to convince us that the Bible has nothing to say about abortion have never read the Book.
I’m surprised they didn’t have the Knights thrown into prison for “hate speech.” Their crimes: male, Catholic, anti-abortion.
Well written article. Thank you.
Amen.
Abortion doctors, nurses and would-be mothers must have missed that part of the Bible.
>> Isn’t one of the Ten Commandments “Thou shalt not kill”?
Actually - no. The commandment is “Thou shalt not murder”. Big difference. (For an excellent discussion, see the Prager U video on the 6th* Commandment.)
* Sorry, but I ignore both the Catholic and Protestant silly-assed renumberings.
Well, if it was in my cemetery I’d object too - for a different reason. Look at the thing - it looks like the church graphics kid created it and was ordered to give credit to everyone who participated in the project: Unborn Lives Matter, Genoa Assembly 863, K of C Council 1008, etc. Four logos on the thing? Barf.
How about “In memory of all the victims of abortion” and the Jeremiah 1:5 quote.
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