Lopez: The soul of our nation depends on ability to “nourish life”
The frightened teenage girl. The single inner-city mom who has made some bad choices and doesn’t quite know what she can do. The 20-something on a career track whose boyfriend is not up to the task of fatherhood. The busy young couple that determines it is not the right time. These are all real scenarios, involving real fears, influenced deeply by a culture that pretends abortion is a quick fix, a solution to a problem.
The health of not just our citizens but our national soul demands that we do a better job, that we work hard to foster and nourish life, both in the womb and outside of it. It’s the only way to ensure a society that lives up to the ideals it was founded upon….
In the wake of the Gosnell verdict, we cannot be satisfied with merely moving on or even simply knowing that Congress has now made moves toward investigating what’s happening in abortion clinics across the nation.
… The nation needs to [examine its conscience] right about now, knowing that infanticide happens, and in the cleanest clinics and hospitals, not just in a Gosnellian nightmare.
Here, perhaps we could consider that even the word “abortion,” which occasionally creeps out from under the euphemisms, is a euphemism in itself, similar to the military’s use of “collateral damage” to mean dead civilians. We all know what’s really happening here.
~ Kathryn Jean Lopez, Amarillo.com, May 20
[Photo by Gage Skidmore, via wn.com]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Amen!!
The nation needs to examine its conscience right about now….YES!!!
Beautifully written.
Folks, please pray for my son Isaiah. He was arrested for dealing drugs. He is almost certainly going to get a prison sentence this time. He has two young children, including a newborn. I have been crying my heart out for the past few days. Please keep all of us in your prayers.
“We all know what’s really happening here.”
Amen Kathryn! Rip off the facade! Confront the brutal facts!
The genocide of innocent children in the name of convenience or “choice” has continued long enough!
And I’m praying for Isaiah Phillymiss. I must say jail worked wonders for my brother. He had been in and out of psych hospitals for decades and none of them helped him as much as 6 mo in the slammer.
Phillymiss, will be praying for your son, and you, and all the little ones. :(
Phillymiss, I’m praying for Isaiah and for you and the family.
Lopez is speaking such simple, common sense stuff. Why it’s so hard for people to understand is beyond me.
Except that maybe people just don’t want to understand. Or maybe common sense just isn’t anymore.
Phillymiss–sending up prayers for y’all.
We must as a society, no matter in what country, recognize what is going on. Parenthood isn’t easy, but abortion won’t change ANY of the situations mentioned here. It won’t change fear into courage. You’ll still be in the same situation except you’ll have added the end of the existence of a human being to that situation. May we all find the courage to find better and healthier solutions.
God bless.
Should finances be eliminated as a reason for abortion through a family allowance system? The income would automatically increase with a new arrival.
Many people object because they believe this would lead to a nation full of Michele Duggars and Nadya Sulemans.
I’m really sorry to hear that, Phillymiss. I really wish there was something I could do to make things better.