Today, January 22 is my birthday. Sadly, it marks 48 years since the moment when the taking of the most innocent of all human lives became the solution for miscalculations, unplanned life situations, inconvenient employment routines, embarrassing cover ups, and even criminal actions; abortions.
This post is not addressing politics, political party platforms or social solutions to personal problems. I am speaking one-on-one with pregnant mothers in every country, personally. Please consider the following before making a decision that many women have later come to regret.
This post is addressing a fundamental right, the Right To Life. Yes, everyone has a right to their own life. Everyone makes their own personal decisions about their body and about their own life. The life growing inside of their own, is not their own life. No one has the right to usurp the right of the life living within the mother. This life is not her own life, which she has mistakenly been told is her own. It is not like her heart, lungs or liver which are hers, and without which she would die. Rather, the human life growing within her has his or her own life.
God the Father, our Creator, knows each one of us before we are born as the book of Jeremiah 1:5 says, “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.” Life Application Study Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois, latest read-aloud version
We are not merely a bunch of messy cells that can be disposed of quickly by the mere swish of a sharp blade, or an expedient dose of a strong saline solution. There is more to a human life, even at our very early stages, including the beating of our human hearts at 8 weeks of our gestational life. Still, we are more than our biology. We are also given a soul, a God-given soul of which no one has a right to deny its life. Not only are we given a soul, we are also given a life plan, as King David explains in the Psalms.
Even King David, in Psalm 139:13-16 says, “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous – how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, You watched as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.” Life Application Study Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois, latest read-aloud version
Who among us human beings has the right to snuff out the plan of God, which he has implanted into each soul at its conception?
There is a lot to think about here, deserving more consideration, more than what is most expedient to sweeping under the rug, as if our personal convenience was the most highly esteemed reason for such a drastic, supposed solution which only deals with one-half of the “problem.”
Think of the Blessed Mother Mary, unwed and pregnant. She was only 13-16 years of age. Didn’t she have other plans for her life? At that time she could have been stoned to death. Not to diminish any other young girl or woman’s problems in this area, but not too many pregnant young girls or women have to add getting stoned to death as part of their decisions.
Who stands up for the fragile human life growing inside a mother’s womb?
I do.
I also have forgiveness in my heart for all young girls and women who have made the death decision to end the life of their unborn child living inside their wombs. We are all human beings who make some horrendous mistakes. I am not making a harsh judgment here in this post. I am addressing young girls and women who find themselves pregnant, not knowing where to turn, that you all have the valid choice to choose life over agendas, expectations, and the current, expedient culture of death as a solution.
Once the innocent life inside the mother makes its presence known, it is no longer only the mother’s body. This life form, no matter what you call it, a fetus or a glob of cells – much coveted stem cells (and expensive stem cells even used in women’s make-up among other things), is no longer just the mother’s body. I do not say merely the woman’s body, because once this fragile human life begins growing, it is no longer only her own body. This woman is now a mother to another human soul. She is no longer merely a woman. She is a mother.
I understand my concept of the generation of human life will not withstand the indignant marches against dignified human life in all its stages. But I cannot remain silent, as I could not remain silent when the first Pro-Life Movement began in the Worcester Diocese almost a half a century previously, when I went with a group of pro-life women from Saint Michael’s Church in Mendon, Massachusetts where I met with then Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan, now deceased on January 28, 1998, to offer my voice in support to the dignity of all human life.
All abortions result in the death of the unborn children. This bunch of cells with a beating heart by eight weeks gestation, all cease to remain living after abortions, so that life can go on more easily for the life of the mother. If only that were so. This scar now on the conscience of the mother will remain with her for the rest of her life, permanently marking every other decision she makes in justification of this one unholy deed.
The ending of any human life ought not be the solution for anyone at any stage of life. It has been estimated that 50 million human lives have been lost through abortion since its legal inception in 1973, according to Iowa State Representative, Greg Heartsill.https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/reality-check/2015/03/06/million-abortions-claim-checks/24530159/
I simply believe that the death of the unborn child is not the answer for any reason.
Adoption is the answer for unwanted human life, not the death of the human life through abortion.
How many of us make decisions based on what is holistic, organic, or the most natural in our lives? Abortions go against all these decisions, naturally.
Countless women continue to suffer with their consciences, years later with regrets. Almighty God, Father of Jesus, always forgives us when we are truly sorry for the offences we commit against Him, and ultimately against ourselves. Next we have to forgive ourselves if and when we come to this realization post-abortion. And we forgive others who have gone through this agony. These young girls and women do not deserve nor need our judgment or condemnation. They need our love. We need to be there for them.
Places to turn to for alternatives to ending human life are:
https://www.nrlc.org
https://www.masscitizensforlife.org/pregnant-need-help
https://www.ccworc.org/
Please pray with me, regardless of politics or legal arguments in your corner of the world, that we support human life in all our pregnant mothers in all ways humanly possible, to find life-giving solutions that do not end in death of the lives of our innocent babies.
God Bless Everyone Everywhere