THE BLOOD STILL CRIES (EVEN IF THE CHILDREN CAN'T ANYMORE)

This is a sure-fire way to ruin a whole evening. I warned you that this contains very graphic images so don't say I warned you.

Now that you return from your shock... I ask you a huge question. Why do people still hold on to the evil delusion that abortion is somehow OK or that it is a right?

Abortion is simply murder. It's destroying life before life really has a chance to grow into something important. I mean... I much rather see a child born healthy and well after 36 weeks or so of internal development. There is a feeling of joy and wonderment at the continuation of human life created by God. Seeing an aborted child just sickens me beyond belief. Both the mother and the doctor have robbed life when they should be protecting it.

Now you may ask: if abortion is murder, what about war or capital punishment (after all, wasn't the Christ a victim of capital punishment)? Capital punishment - although misused - serves as an instrument of justice for the actions (not the character) of an individual. The criminal knew the crime and with crime comes punishment and sometimes punishment is not a pleasant thing (after all, look at St. Matthew 25:31-46). As for war, well it's an inevitably. We should avoid it but sometimes the right needs to survive from the wrong. Abortion is not justified. The only real justification for it is because it "cramps my style" of free sex, which by the way is sinful in itself.

But what about rape? Incest? Medical reasons? With rape, why should the child suffer for a perpetrator's crime? And besides, the case of rape is an extreme case because the vast majority of rapes do not yield to pregnancy. Plus does rape mean that you were really raped or is it something else? Incest is not extreme case but stupid. You shouldn't be having sex within the family at any rate, no matter what. As for medical reasons, I don't buy it for one bit. There's always risk with pregnancy. There's always risk for other things in life. Aborting a child to save the mother from possible complications is like committing suicide to save yourself from the possiblity of cancer. And furthermore, there shouldn't be any medical reason for it under the Hippocratic Oath (which is no longer said or no longer said in its complete version). Doctors are to protect life but not at the expense of another (in other words, the cost gains are negative).

Next January 22, it would have been thirty years since 410 US 113 (infamously known as Roe v Wade) was heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court. And by then, nearly 50 million young lives will be gone due to abortions: three times the number of European Jews killed under the Nazi death machine AND the number of deaths in Stalin Russia (both WW2 and by him). Nearly a third of my generation - future lawyers, doctors, theologians, clerics, artists, writers, musicians, engineers, scientists, professors, teachers... friends, neighbors, contemporaries, schoolmates and maybe even a lucky girl with whom I will give my life to in love and in other respects - GONE. Tell me... how can abortion be somehow an American right when you end up killing a fifth of America in the span of only three decades?

And if the Theotokos chose life for the One who is Life, why can't you?

God have mercy on the children.

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