"Don't abort your unborn babies" - Bishops plead with girls impregnated by Boko Haram militants

[_Abyssinia]

Opposing calls made by several groups urging girls raped and impregnated by Boko Haram insurgents to have abortions, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has issued an appeal to the affected females encouraging them keep their unborn babies.

According to ThisDay, the bishops’ call came amid intense pressure being mounted by groups calling for the termination of the pregnancies.

In a statement made available to journalists, Health Committee of the bishops’ conference frowned at the move to browbeat the girls into abortion.

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[rfournier103]

The ultimate slap in the face to Boko Haram would be to raise every last one of these babies as Christians.

 

[SWolf]

The ultimate slap in the face to Boko Haram would be to raise every last one of these babies as Christians.

To quote Rob Roy “The baby is not the one who needs killing.”

 

[schaeffer]

Aborting the babies is letting those men win. Letting their actions lead us to kill our own children.

Rape is a horrible, life scarring tragedy, so is abortion. Why subject yourself and your child to both?

People say “but the child will serve as a constant reminder…”

Believe me, if you’ve been raped…child or no child, you are not going to forget.

And that child can just as much, if not more, serve as proof that life goes on, is good and is full of hope and potential.

 

[rfournier103]

To quote Rob Roy “The baby is not the one who needs killing.”

I nominate this for “Post of the Day”.

 

[ToeInTheWater]

To quote Rob Roy “The baby is not the one who needs killing.”

And to put that quote in context for those who never saw that movie, Rob Roy says that after finding out his wife Mary was raped and impregnated by his enemy, Lord Cunningham. He swears to raise the child as his own, and even tells his wife, as he heads out to challenge Cunningham to a duel, that if he doesn’t come back she should name the child after him if it’s a boy, and after her if it’s a girl.

Anyway, while I know that many “moderates” on the abortion issue think there should be an exemption for rape, I think it is one matter for a rape victim to seek out abortion on her own, and quite another matter for outsiders to the country to rush in and try to browbeat women into getting abortions. So much for “choice”.

 

[ServantPD]

The ultimate slap in the face to Boko Haram would be to raise every last one of these babies as Christians.

I like the way you think!

 

[CaptFun]

I nominate this for “Post of the Day”.

(per “The baby is not the one that needs killing …” – Rob Roy)

Another good one was:

Aborting the babies is letting those men win. Letting their actions lead us to kill our own children.

Rape is a horrible, life scarring tragedy, so is abortion. Why subject yourself and your child to both?

People say “but the child will serve as a constant reminder…”

Believe me, if you’ve been raped…child or no child, you are not going to forget.

And that child can just as much, if not more, serve as proof that life goes on, is good and is full of hope and potential.

And these:

lifenews.com/2013/09/03/15-of-the-greatest-pro-life-quotes-of-all-time/ < 15 of the greatest pro-life quotes of all time:

1. “I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” – Ronald Reagan

1. “A person is a person no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss

1. “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

1. “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson

1. “How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.” – Mother Teresa

1. “This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted” – Henry Hyde

1. “It seems to me clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.” – Gandhi

1. “We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” – J.K. Rowling

1. “The right to life is the first among human rights.” – Pope Francis

1. “Being pregnant was very much like falling in love. You are so open. You are so overjoyed. There’s no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you so, of course, you want to scream it out and tell everyone.” – Beyonce

1. And she said hearing her unborn baby’s heartbeat “was the most beautiful music I ever heard in my life.”

1. “It’s alright all of us all living saying ‘oh well there’s enough of us so we won’t have anymore, don’t let anybody else live.’ I don’t believe in that.” – John Lennon

1. “The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.” – Dr. Mildred Jefferson

1. “Sweeter even than to have had the joy of children of my own has it been for me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so that their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.” – Susan B. Anthony

1. “I do not believe the promises of the Declaration of Independence are just for the strong, the independent, the healthy. They are for everyone-including unborn children.” – George W. Bush

AND lest we forget, from the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution:

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity*, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

• posterity = US … when*** WE*** were (ahem) unborn.

 

[Zachary]

Is anyone else surprised that libs arent all over this?

I mean, they are loving the fact that the young girl of 10 in (forgive me if I got the country wrong) Paraguay who was raped by her father and impregnated is being “denied her right.” It’s their new favourite poster.

You’d think they’d be all up in arms trying to say that these girls “deserve to benefit from abortion” etc, laced with all the usual platitudes. But no. I haven’t heard a peep. Did I miss it? Or is abortion less important to libs than not making Islam look evil? Because if they demand abortion for the boko haram raped victims, they have to admit that the rapists were evil, despite them acting in accordance with their beliefs.

 

[Micosil]

The ultimate slap in the face to Boko Haram would be to raise every last one of these babies as Christians.

To quote Rob Roy “The baby is not the one who needs killing.”

Aborting the babies is letting those men win. Letting their actions lead us to kill our own children.

Rape is a horrible, life scarring tragedy, so is abortion. Why subject yourself and your child to both?

People say “but the child will serve as a constant reminder…”

Believe me, if you’ve been raped…child or no child, you are not going to forget.

And that child can just as much, if not more, serve as proof that life goes on, is good and is full of hope and potential.

Lots of amazing posts in this thread.

 

[Elizium23]

lifenews.com/2013/09/03/15-of-the-greatest-pro-life-quotes-of-all-time/ < 15 of the greatest pro-life quotes of all time:

Please don’t spread that list of quotes. It is highly problematic. For starters, Dr. Seuss was a hardcore liberal and his widow hates it when pro-lifers use that quote.

Secondly, that alleged Mother Teresa quote is not her authentic words. It is “significantly paraphrased or personal interpretation” of something she said.

 

[jinglebelle]

Who is Rob Roy?

 

[CaptFun]

Please don’t spread that list of quotes. It is highly problematic. For starters, Dr. Seuss was a hardcore liberal and his widow hates it when pro-lifers use that quote.

Secondly, that alleged Mother Teresa quote is not her authentic words. It is “significantly paraphrased or personal interpretation” of something she said.

Well I needn’t post it again.

Somewhat surprised that the “controversial” ones here are Dr. Seuss and Mother Teresa.

Seuss being a hardcore liberal doesn’t bother me. “Horton Hatches the Egg” (1940) and “Horton Hears a Who” (1954) predated Roe v. Wade and the more radical wave of feminism that coincided with the advent of the pill, etc.

Each stands on its own as caring for others: first, unborn life and promise keeping (Horton Hatches the Egg); and standing up for the marginalized (but small) lives that are THERE but OPPOSED by powerful others (Horton Hears A Who). I don’t doubt that the widow gets gas from political meanies about that … even though being liberal used to mean "standing up for the little people and the powerless vs. the powerful.

**Mother Teresa ** said more straightforwardly pro-life things than the article quoted.
In fact, that quote I’d heard credited to Homer Simpson (who, instead of flowers, ended the sentence with “… too many donuts”).

John Lennon now … that was a more broad quote. And while affirming a pro-life attitude of sorts … was possibly not about abortion at all. It does sound like it might be directed against preachy birth control zealots and the “overpopulation” crowd of his time (which as I remember could be quite strident).< Especially in castigating the third world.

Ghandi - that was one I’d never heard before. Yet it fits. Lots of people in India -indicate that many have babies. It’s against the religion of some to kill even cows, or rats in some cases.

Beyonce is the most contemporary figure quoted … and I take it numbers 10 AND 11 were hers. Her enthusiasm about the JOYS being pregnant is certainly pro-life.

I think its good to hear that some people of prominence hold pro-life values. Though bandwagoning is not the best policy for deciding things (its a logical fallacy), the pro-abortion side seems to have endless testimonials from celebrities … and that does, sadly, influence people.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

The problem is when the list isn’t accurate, it makes pro-life people look like nutz who will believe anything and spread falsehoods to support their agenda.

We must present truth because it’s true, not propaganda because we happen to like it.

Jim

 

[ToeInTheWater]

Who is Rob Roy?

Rob Roy is a semi-legendary character in Scottish folklore, somewhat like Robin Hood, although there’s no proof Robin Hood ever existed, whereas Rob Roy was a real historical figure. However, many of the legends about him are just that, legends.

His story was adapted into a movie starring Liam Neeson (who I believe is actually Catholic) as Rob Roy, Jessica Lange as his wife Mary, and Tim Roth as the villainous Lord Cunningham.

Anyway, as I posted before, in the movie, Rob Roy finds out his wife was raped by Cunningham and is pregnant. That’s when he states that “The baby is not the one that needs killing”. Instead, he challenges the rapist, Cunningham, to a duel, hoping to kill him.

And yes you can debate whether this was the right thing for him to do, I’m not saying rapists deserve to be killed, but the point is that the guilty party is the rapist, NOT the baby. The baby had no choice in being conceived, and is innocent. So if most modern people would not find even the rapist deserving of death, why do they think killing the innocent baby is right? To the extent of actually pressuring women to abort the babies?