For 38 years our country has endured the scourge of our nation, a scourge that must not continue. Are not we obliged to rescue leading to the slaughter?
There are more than 68 million Catholics in the United States. What is hard to say, along with other people of faith, “Enough is enough”?
Perhaps we need an image to make us react, as the black boy Emmett Till, who died beaten beyond recognition, for whistling at a white woman in 1955. His mother demanded that the casket remain open during the funeral, to show the world what hate had done to her son. This started the civil rights movement.
What image do we have to be moving enough to take us to demand an end to the killing of our innocent?
I’ll never forget when I saw the Knights of Columbus in their uniforms, while carrying a small white coffin into a donated grave in which would rest a little girl murdered by those who administer abortions factory in Hialeah. No one was indicted for his murder. The police officers found his body in a state of decomposition, remained on guard at the tomb, to honor his short life.
Another memory that will never erase from my memory is the day I received a phone call from a father of three children, who cried and begged me to convince his wife not to kill her fourth child by abortion. I tried but could not convince her. In accordance with the law, nor her husband could do it, even if married, the father has no rights when the woman makes the decision to abort. I often wonder what happened to that marriage, for abortion trauma seeps into the relationship of the parents.
Visualize a Carmelite nun in her dark habit, standing under the hot sun, his face turned skyward and eyes closed, praying in front of a factory abortions. When a woman finds out after having an abortion, falls to his knees and cries with great suffering, so much pain for the child who has just been murdered. This image caused the clinic manager is asked: “How many others cry in front of my place of employment due to work I do?” [This is taken from Abby Johnson's new book, entitled "Unplanned" (No plan) the story of how he left the abortion business.]
Lord, open our eyes that we see what we have to do to restore the sanctity of human life, born and unborn.
“I came that they may have life and have it in fullness.” (John 10:10)
Joan Crown – Respect Life Ministry
Monday, January 17, 2011
