Pro-Life Reflection

[tkdnick]

I had an interesting reflection Sunday night…

I work with my parish’s youth group and we were talking about Catholic social teaching. One of our group said that she feels like some of the teachings don’t mean as much because they don’t touch our lives on an every day basis. Her example was that abortion doesn’t touch us in our everyday lives, but the environment does. And instantly this thought came to my mind - abortion DOES touch your life in an everyday way! How many friends have you lost because someone decided to have an abortion?

How many friends, family, acquaintances, students, teachers, inventors, athletes, priests, and/or saints have we lost because of all the abortions that occur in our world? How much is missing from our lives because our brothers & sisters were murdered before we ever got the chance to meet them?

 

[b_justb]

These are teens you’re working with right?

You can’t miss what you don’t have. I see their point. It’s very difficult to grasp at a loss of life that you can’t see, or even know. Stats of x number of abortions every minute in the US are pretty meaningless to a group of people that can’t grasp the immensity of those figures. Out of sight out of mind. These are kids and young adults, right?

The environment issue is hot, it’s everywhere. At least it has gotten some of them to think in social terms. That’s a good. Build on that to include the (I feel) more important issue of abortion.