Face it, Abortion is Ugly

Late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell has been convicted of first degree murder for killing babies after delivering them alive….

But Dr. Gosnell is only the front man; and the real trial has only just begun. The defendant is the abortion license in America. - Robert George

h/t Jill Stanek

With the new revelations of another abortionist in Houston Texas, the public are being exposed to yet more horrors of abortions gone wrong. Abortions that end in infanticide. Soon people are going to have to see that the difference of a few inches from inside the mother to outside makes no difference to the baby - in both cases, it dies. 

Abortionist Doug Karpen under investigation, Life Site News

This latest investigation reveals that 3-4 babies were born alive each day, and former clinic staff testify to the doctor's slitting throats, and in some cases, twisting heads off babies to kill them.

As one journalist explained, the reason the press didn't cover the Gosnell case is because it showed the pro-choice position in an unfavourable light. As pro-lifers have been saying for quite some time now, there is no favourable light to be shed on abortion.

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.        - Ephesians 5:11 

Conceived in Rape

Yet still loved. The recent escape of Amanda Berry from a decade-long imprisonment by Ariel Castro reveals the sobering truth:  that a child conceived in rape can still be loved by her mother.  Experts are even saying that it is Amanda's maternal instinct that gave her the will and determination to escape from the boarded-up house she was held in.  She wouldn't let go of her little girl, as she came out. A little girl whose father is the man-turned-monster Ariel Castro. 

One victim of Castro has not said much and speculation abounds as to why she has not contacted family yet. It turns out that Michelle Knight, the first victim to be imprisoned by Castro, was herself the prior victim of a gang rape and she had a child by that rape.  Her son was taken from her when he was two, perhaps because of a custody dispute with her family.

Michelle is now asking to be reunited with her son, who is now thirteen years old.

The power of a mother's love. It makes one question whether abortion is really a solution for a woman who has been raped. These two women's stories show otherwise.

Our learning to understand, as a society, that it is natural for Michelle to desire a relationship with her child conceived in rape is an important part of healing for Michelle and others like her. Women like Michelle fall through the cracks that we fashion with our pickaxes in the law when we say that abortion should be an option for raped women “because it’s natural for a woman not to desire that child.” We have failed as a society to understand that it is natural for Michelle to desire that relationship. Attitudes like this bring about the lack of support that resulted in Michelle’s child being taken from her. It is time for us to heal the cracks that women like Michelle, and their children, fall through – cracks that are made by those who advocate for abortion in cases of rape.  - 

Cleveland victim wants to reunited with son conceived in gang rape

The Holy Family

 

 

A simple prayer card with a picture of the Holy Family. There was something about the sleeping child on Mary's shoulder that caught my attention. A child like this is completely at repose, fully trustful of the person who is holding them.

 

 

To think that God put his own son into the hands of a human being, a woman, and gave him to her in complete trust.  This woman would give birth to him, nurse him, teach him to walk, teach him to talk, and shape him in his human character. And the ever present Joseph about whom we don't know much. But just think, this boy Jesus would probably hold his food the same way that Joseph did, he would certainly work with wood in the same way, and he would even speak with the same accent and tone of voice.

 

For Jesus must have resembled Joseph: in his way of working, in the features of his character, in his way of speaking. Jesus' realism, his eye for detail, the way he sat at table and broke bread, his preference for using everyday situations to give doctrine - all this reflects his childhood and the influence of Joseph. -Blessed Jose Maria Escriva 

A woman whom God trusted with the entire care of his own son. A man whom God trusted to care for both the mother and the child.

When we get a sense of this mystery, we begin to understand God's plan for our salvation is based on the family. Even God provided a human family for his son.



Mother's Day

 

Happy Mother's Day



The other day, while driving, I had the radio on. Usually I listen to talk radio (95.7 FM in Halifax) but the usual discussion of inept city government followed by phone-ins from callers who have nothing better to do, just wasn't the ticket that morning.

So I flipped to the Christian channel  (CJLU - 93.9 FM) and caught an interesting interview on Focus on the Family. The woman being interviewed was Erin Davis, a young mother of two and expecting #3.

She spoke of how she had not wanted to become a mother, but that she had felt called to ministry in her church, particularly youth ministry. Having children, she thought, would interfere with that. So she and her husband gave their lives over to what they felt they were called to do. Until she found out she was pregnant. And then her thinking began to change.

The transformation was gradual but profound. And she now writes about motherhood, about how reading stories, bathing toddlers, wiping noses are now her ministry. Instead of being active in the church, she now barely gets there on time, dragging her little brood behind her.

This all sounds pretty nice, but not very exciting. Until I heard her say that young Christian couples pray about everything, what job to have, where to live, what service to give, but rarely (and she admits she and her husband NEVER) prayed about what children God might want them to have.

This is the one area that so many Christians will not surrender to the Lord. And yet how incredibly important!  How do we know who God wants to bring into the world?  And how can they come here if we don't cooperate?

It is so refreshing to hear this spoken about. Erin said that she has read and reread the Scriptures and she doesn't think that they condemn family planning or contraception but God certainly does consider children a blessing.  And having many children is considered to be God's plan, not just having one or two.

This all ties in with three talks I heard yesterday from Patrick Coffin of www.Catholicanswers.org
in which he explained the Catholic church's teaching on contraception.  I think Erin would have enjoyed the talks. While I do agree with Patrick that the Scriptures do speak against contraception, I am so glad to know that our brothers and sisters in the evangelical Christian churches are also beginning to question the prosperity Gospel of mom, dad, two kids, nice home and middle class lifestyle. There is so much more for families than what the cultural attitude holds out. 

Erin blogs at
www.erindavis.org

And she wrote a post for Mother's Day on just this topic. It is a good read, especially for young women who wonder about being mothers and might wonder how many babes they should bring into the world.

A Radical Way to Pray for Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day especially to my daughters Rebecca and Elena.
I am so glad that you became mothers to Jacob, Hannah, Benjamin, Rhett, Joseph, Jasper, Isaac, Miriam and Sarah. And they are glad too!

Great talk in Halifax

A great talk by Father Rob Arsenault yesterday at the March for Life rally in Halifax, NS.

Click on the link below and then on Father Rob's name at the bottom of the list. You can hear the audio of his talk given outside the Legislature of the province of Nova Scotia.

Talk by Father Rob Arsenault

The only disturbance that we experienced occurred at the very end of Father Rob's talk, as he was praying for all of us, including those who are not open to hear about the sanctity of life. A young man and woman walked right through the middle of the crowd, and you can hear what the young woman had to say.  As Father Rob concluded, "sometimes God's timing is even better than our own". 

That pesky abortion debate

When a newspaper article gets 1447 comments, I would say that it must have really touched a nerve with the folks.

Stephen Woodworth refuses to pretend abortion is a non-issue

Joyce Arthur, head of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada thinks that it is Mr. Woodworth who doesn't "get" the picture.

“He doesn’t seem to recognize that at all,” said Arthur. “When I bring up women’s rights over and over again, he thinks it’s some sort of sideshow. He doesn’t really get the issue, so what’s the point of talking about it with him?”

Kelly McParland writes a fine article, he is obviously pro-life, but since when does that mean that one is not a logical thinker? It would seem to me that logic is on the side of those who wish to protect life, rather than on the side of those who see the covering of a mother's body as the only difference between life worth protecting and life that can be killed at will.

Kudos to Stephen Woodworth, the Canadian misogynist Member of Parliament. You have the support of many women, who see themselves as participants in the great drama of life, rather than as the protagonists who get to call the shots for others.

And thank you to Kelly McParland, and others at the National Post, who are making public the debate on abortion, even if our Parliament won't. 

Kermit Gosnell's House of Horrors

The trial of Kermit Gosnell continues. All the arguments for the prosecution have been heard; oddly enough, the defense called no witnesses and did not call Gosnell to the witness stand. So he is relying solely on his closing argument to sway the jury's decision.

His case is that this is blatant racism; that Gosnell is being tried because he simply did what Roe v Wade permitted, that abortion when it is done for poor minority women will look ugly - what else do you expect?

Fox News presented a one-hour documentary last night called See No Evil - you can view a 10 minute trailer of the show here.

Gosnell Case: The women and their harrowing stories

One statement I have heard from pro-choice supporters is that Gosnell shows exactly what happens when women don't have access to safe hygienic conditions. They argue that it is pro-life restrictions that bring about filthy clinics like Kermit Gosnell's House of Horrors. 

How disingenuous!  This case shows that Roe v Wade simply legalized back alley abortions. Abortion is a dirty and horrific act; exposing Gosnell's clinic shows the public exactly what abortion is: the killing of babies, often done by people profiting off the misery of women.

The fight over abortion will not go away, even as pro-choice supporters say that the law has been decided and that we will not go back to the way things were. When life is treated so casually, as shown by Gosnell's case, one can't help but rise up in anger over the injustice being committed.