"Every year, this week in January is one of the hardest. Today is the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, when in 1973 the killing of children in the womb became legal in our country.
12 weeks in the womb
The image here shows one size of those children who have been willfully killed in the womb with the blessing of American law. An estimated 54,559,615 have been killed between 1973-2008 (http://www.nrlc.org), with another 1,212,400 between 2009-2011.
That's a total of 55,772,015. Nearly fifty-six million souls that never saw the light of day. That's an entire country's worth of people who never had a chance to even know what citizenship here on earth means.
According to Planned Parenthood's website, this country's biggest abortion buisness, there are two main procedures that are used to kill our children: one involves vacumming (aspiration), the other involves scalpels and then vaccuming ('Dilation & Extraction). Along with the description of these procedures, there are images that show in heartbreaking details the results of abortion.
Why is abortion still legal in our country? Why do we hedge votes, promoting politicians who dubiously support life--or advocate abortion outright? Why do we stand for judges who re-define the very meaning of life, excluding children in the womb from the very right to births?
We have been pressured to be silent about abortion. The false claim of 'personal' choices are touted as being more important than the protection of the life. And so we are uncomfortable even saying the word 'abortion', we fear offending others and we certainly don't want to get into debate.
Thus thousands of children continue to be killed every day by legal abortion.
Tolstoy wrote that 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.' We have been given the source of Goodness Himself: Jesus Christ! We not only have nothing to fear, but all that we need to succeed. Let us confidently proclaim the Gospel of Life, in our prayers, words, votes, and actions--so that this anniversary might one day be overshadowed by the celebration of new life."
~Father Jacob Maurer
Our parish priest wrote this in the church bulletin. I couldn't help but post it here.
Please pray for the right to life.
~Katherine
