Our nation’s Supreme Court passed the Roe v. Wade decision 42 years ago and established a national right to abortion. Since that time, 50 million abortions have taken place. As I read the papers and watch the news, I am starting to ask myself, is the “not an insurmountable problem – I’ll get an abortion” response to an undesired pregnancy starting to run its course?
Since Roe v. Wade, many states, and then Congress, struck back to limit some types of abortion. One such outlawed procedure was the partial-birth abortion, where the baby is delivered, except for the head, and then its life “unceremoniously” ended.
Since the partial-birth abortion ban, abortionists have turned to other means of ending pregnancies. As a result, numerous states have passed additional laws. One such law, referred to as fetal dismemberment, prohibits the practice of “knowingly dismembering a living unborn child and extracting such unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors…”
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The pain for the mother goes up significantly when she
becomes aware of the means required to terminate the life
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My years on this earth have taught me that Americans are a caring, compassionate people, and when faced with injustice and impropriety, most Americans resist it. It is one thing for a lady to become pregnant and seek an abortion when the experience is sterile, like just taking a pill. It is quite another thing when the mother comes face to face with the reality that she is terminating a person’s life, her own child’s life, for that matter.
And the pain for the mother goes up significantly when she becomes aware of the means required to terminate the life of the child before removing him or her from the womb. The further along in the pregnancy, the more drastic the process.
With sexual activity leading to so many unwanted pregnancies, might the day come, and perhaps not too far down the road, that Americans return to the way things were when my 97-year-old mother was a young lady? She told me that when she was young, men did not expect to have sex when they went out on a date. Even today, that is more or less true. Of course, not all unwanted pregnancies are outside of a husband-wife relationship; but many are, and that is the sex I refer to here.
The world is really messed up right now, having thrown off so many values that kept us from so much pain. But that is the way life is – we learn through pain.
If you know someone who is pregnant and feeling hopeless right now, have her call Hope Pregnancy Center 886-7022.
Art Hall
From the Bible: I too was a son to my father, still tender, and cherished by my mother. Then he taught me, and he said to me, “Take hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands, and you will live. From Proverbs 4
Cape May – Governor Murphy says he doesn't know anything about the drones and doesn't know what they are doing but he does know that they are not dangerous. Does anyone feel better now?
