Two Modern Tragedies: Abortion Cataclysm and School Shootings
By JPSonnen
It’s a good week to be a pro-lifer, I told a friend last
December over dinner, my eyes filling up.
She knew exactly what I meant, and nearly burst into tears.
What happened just before Christmas at Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, Conn., was and remains terrible on every level, but for
pro-life activists it is also in some ways akin to what has become normal since
the awful 1969 abortioneering law in Canada – taking the life of innocent kids.
When Dawn Hochsprung, Natalie Hammond and Mary Sherlach,
respectively the Sandy Hook principal, vice-principal and psychologist, heard
the sounds of Adam Lanza shooting his way through the locked front doors of
their school, they ran to attempt to stop the killing.
All were women. Six
staff – four teachers as well as Ms. Hochsprung and Ms. Sherlach – were killed
alongside twenty of their young charges.
Others were luckier. All
demonstrated remarkable grit and presence of mind.
Parents have had trouble sleeping – all of us thinking about
the massacre that took place in Newtown.
Twitter and Facebook were full of messages of the type: “Gave my kids
extra hugs tonight. Save our kids! Love them more than ever. Protect our children!”
My sizeable contingent of pro-life friends have all been
saying the same thing: Terrible indeed, but what about abortion?
Human life is being destroyed on an unimaginably vast scale. And it is legal. How many kids are killed by the
heart-stopping abortionist’s curette? And
where does the money go? Meanwhile the
mega-press straddle and dither about “one theory of when life begins” while
never addressing the politically neutral scientific data which supports the
concept of prenatality as one of the many passages in our lives. The unborn infant cannot be heard; it cannot
be read; it cannot demonstrate or parade through the streets. It cannot even be arrested and thrown in jail
for civil disorder. When will we count
the preborn kids?
Perhaps we might consider giving careful scrutiny to this
moral absolute: that the destruction of any living being, whether a child
student, embryo, defective fetus, or neonate, is an act of irretrievable
finality; that one life is not fungible with another; and that the value of
each human life transcends ordinary mensuration. Today we live in an age of acute dichotomy: prenatality,
molecular genetics, fetal medicine, fetal surgery, and human abortion – all are
carried out – on the same premises.
Abortion is hideously politicized by board, government and
union in North America. None of us are
so naïve as to think the case of abortion will be decided as it should be,
purely on its bio-ethical merits, anytime soon.
Nevertheless, the increasing weight of the scientific data indisputably
confirming the humanity of the unborn continues to ever push in one
direction. At the same time, we might
compare the crystalline selflessness of the pro-life advocate to the shabby greed
and materialism of the abortion industry and the ruthless self-gratification of
the abortion business.
It seems that we are attempting to traverse a pool of
quicksand on ballet slippers when we instruct our teenage boys that it is not
okay to kill children, but okay to kill preborn children. Canadian physicians ought to declare an
immediate moratorium on the destruction of life until we have explored every
feasible alternative and until we more fully comprehend the inexpressible
divinity of existence.
And one final word, if I may, to pro-life advocates. Our movement has – especially in Canada - been tragically hobbled by factionalism and
disunity. No social revolution, or even
counter-revolution, can succeed without the public appearance of unity and
harmony within the ranks. It may be time
to sort out the factional differences in the pro-life ranks and resolve the
dissidence in this movement so that we
may finally begin to achieve some legislative victories. I fear that without unity we will condemn
ourselves repeatedly to the bitter dregs of disappointment and defeat.
Excellent essay. A+
ReplyDelete"And where does the money go?" Abortion is legal, because abortionists give their profits to politicians. Similarly, teachers' unions are powerful, because union leaders give their profits to politicians. Thus, every politician who uses money from abortions and teachers to win elections are unethical, disgusting leaders. Eric of Sweden and Joan of Arc, orate pro nobis.