A case of "News of the weird" that might be relevant to pro-life

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A couple weeks ago or so, I posted in Back Fence about this “Atacama Humanoid” that’s been making headlines. My interest then was scientific, but now I’m wondering if this strange story is opening a window onto wider cultural and moral issues. Here is my original thread for reference:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=788188

Call me weird (I’ve been called worse), but for some reason I haven’t been able to get this little fellow out of my mind. So every now and then I check about him. I had been sort of sensing that there was more to this story than the sensationalized accounts of an “alien baby” - a truth more commonplace, and possibly tragic.

Here is what I found. It sounds very possible that this little corpse belongs to an aborted fetus. Be advised that the blog and the story below take the worldly view as regards the abortion issue, not to mention have some disturbing content. Still, I firmly believe that the pro-life movement needs to be aware of how to diplomatically confront the issue of desperate women in poor countries in crisis pregnancies.

We need to learn their culture, hear their fears, and be ready with moral and practical aid. If we don’t get there first, the pro-aborts will, and they’re already starting to make inroads.

paolov.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/atacama-alien-mystery/ (more links in the comments, such as the one to the site below).

womensenews.org/story/the-world/080115/bolivias-bad-births-sit-political-sidelines#.UaQxnle8M3h

Now I could be way out in left field about all of this in regard to the case of “Ata”, as I’m relying on what others have to say about him. If I am, then let the egg be on my face. But I just have seen how the pro-choicers go in to peoples in poor cultures with their quick-fix solution of abortion and how they paint the Church as the bad guy. That we can’t deny even if this particular little corpse is not an aborted fetus. Because it sounds like there are plenty of other abortions taking place - as they have everywhere for millennia. If we care, maybe we can offer an alternative.
 
Hmmm, I am confused. Do you want to discuss the tiny human or the issues of promoting life among poor women?

As an aside: your last article said they show a film of an abortion being committed in the schools. I would really rather go with showing pictures of babies at an early gestational age and later–I think that gets people thinking more about having sex at all. The other way seems to cause a sort of ignoring mode, iyswim.
 
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Hmmm, I am confused. Do you want to discuss the tiny human or the issues of promoting life among poor women?
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Sorry for any confusion inadvertently created. A lot of ideas got sparked in my mind as I was following those links myself, and it was kind of difficult to present them all coherently. :o I was originally interested more in the tiny human (not as a human-alien hybrid because that’s silly IMO, the DNA is clearly human).

The articles I was reading were still unclear about what could have made the little guy so small yet, as some said, seemingly he lived to age 6-8. So I was curious in the sense of forensics, medical mystery, etc. and kept seeking information on him. Was he a parasitic twin, a dwarf, or a fetus being mistaken for a dwarf . . . there were several possibilities.

Finally I stumbled upon the blog that seemed to make a good case for him being aborted. That led to the sad articles about abortion in that part of the world. So my interest turned in that direction at that point.
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As an aside: your last article said they show a film of an abortion being committed in the schools. I would really rather go with showing pictures of babies at an early gestational age and later–I think that gets people thinking more about having sex at all. The other way seems to cause a sort of ignoring mode, iyswim.
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I don’t think graphic films of an abortion should be shown to schoolchildren. It will traumatize the sensitive ones and be blown off by the insensitive ones. I think a positive thing would be more like what you suggest - still pictures of intact babies. Maybe a 3D sonogram of a healthy baby - like the kinds women get to put in baby albums. It needs to be positive and affirming, not trying to terrorize the kids.

This should be accompanied by abstinence education, availability of crisis pregnancy help, and NFP instruction - the latter probably not in the schools since it’s more a marriage prep thing - but it could be mentioned rather than contraceptives.

My ultimate point is that, as has happened for decades in developing nations, the “do-gooders” of the Planned Parenthood and “pro-choice” types start going into these countries to “liberate” the women with their version of a solution for crisis pregnancies. They bring the Culture of Death. I’m saying pro-lifers need to get there first with the Gospel of Life. :yup:
 
I agree with you–the forces of death are very aggressive! I remeber reading several years ago that there were places in Africa where no one has been vaccinated because health services can’t get there, but they are all on abc 😦
 
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