I totally agree with the previous post. In this culture, women don’t want to be inconvenienced because it requires too much work (It’s not easy!). A woman with a special needs child, has been given this child for a very special mission from Our Lord. I am sure it requires lots of patience, love, courage and I admire women that are so giving and loving.
When I was 38, I became pregnant with my 3rd child and I was told by the medical establishment that there was a possibility of 1 in 10 that she would have a chromosome abnormality. As a prolife Catholic, I realized that if this was the case, I was CHOSEN to take care of a special ‘angel’. I placed myself in The Lord’s Will and spent time in front of the blessed sacrament. As it turned out, my child was healthy.
Many times, women just panic and may not make the right decision. It is all in Our Lord’s timing. It is always tricky when talking with prochoicers. First thing I would do is to ask questions gently. I usually try to find out what their moral guidelines are. Such as: do you believe in God? Do you believe in Christ? If you do believe in God/Christ, our commandments state ‘You Shall not kill’ If possible, quote the bible. See their reaction to basic moral questions, before you proceed. If they are Christian, you can discuss how much Jesus loved children and the beatitudes, etcc… If they are Catholic, show them the Catechism of the catholic church and how saints talk about pro-life, etc. I leave you with my favorite prolife quotes from Mother Theresa
If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
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"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
“America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts – a child – as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters”
And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign." (Mother Theresa – “Notable and Quotable,” Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94, p. A14)
~ Mother Teresa
red and they don’t know what to say.