Life, truth, and abortion
Science, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bible overwhelmingly stand on the “pro-life” side of the great abortion debate in our country. Don’t be misled by those who say otherwise!
Basic biology indicates when the sperm from the male penetrates the egg from the female and fertilization takes place, we have a new unique human being at its earliest stage of human development.
Three things then need to take place. Time, nutrition, and love but tragically abortion destroys all three.
Science clearly shows what is developing in the womb is a human being and not just “products of conception” or merely a “clump of cells”.
3D and 4D ultrasound imaging show the beauty of our human development in the womb, a journey we all share including Jesus Christ beginning at conception.
The first unalienable right endowed by our Creator as listed in the Declaration of Independence is “Life,” but yet the U.S. Supreme Court in two companion decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton issued in 1973 somehow pulled a rabbit out of thin air to create this so-called right to an abortion.
The late Supreme Court Justice Bryon White, one of only two justices who dissented in 1973, wrote what just took place with these decisions was “an exercise in raw judicial power.”
Almost 20 years later the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissent in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey (1992) wrote, “To abort her unborn child is not constitutionally protected ‘liberty’ because (1) the Constitution says absolutely nothing about it.”
62 million innocent and defenseless children in the womb of their mother have lost their lives because of these regretful Supreme Court decisions.
In the Gospel reading for the twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (October 10), Jesus is asked, “Good teacher what must I do to inherit eternal life . . . You know the commandments: You should not kill”(Mark 10, 17-18).
Jesus is the Way and the Truth and the LIFE, so don’t be fooled by our judicial, political, and religious leaders who offer their “pro-choice” opinions in opposition to scientific, historical, and Biblical truths.
We need to repent from our collective sin in this the greatest human rights issue of our generation and like slavery, let us overcome the moral evil of abortion and respect, love, and protect all life from conception until natural death.
Patrick Hardyman
Blanchardville