One of the points the paper makes that cancer causes natural death yet we try and cure cancer.
As for implantation, since so many zygotes are lost before implantation, it makes little sense to me that there will be lots of people in heaven who never lived in the accepted sense on earth. And if all the sinless automatically go to heaven, they will outnumber those who “lived”. And being aborted will be a good thing since it will guarantee a place in heaven.
And children at younger and younger gestational ages are being saved, and surgery is being performed on unborn children.
What is your “accepted sense?” Are you actually telling me that my daughter Elysia didn’t live because she died before birth? Because if that is what you are saying, you are wrong. Elysia was conceived in great physical love and she was loved intensely for every second of her life on earth. All she did was good. She never sinned. She never killed anyone or stole anything or hurt anyone. She lived a good life. It was a short life on earth, but she is now in heaven and I will be with her again.
Are you telling me that my son Matthias didn’t live because he died before birth? Again, he was conceived in great physical love and was loved intensely his whole life. And he is in heaven.
These two children were never and are not now worthless.
What does the length of a human being’s life have to do with that human being’s humanity? Should we kill our infants so they can go to heaven quickly? What about toddlers or older children or teens? Why don’t we just snuff them all so they can go to heaven? What about the elderly? Are they doing anything good? Why don’t we just kill
everyone and be done with it?
And what is wrong with lots of people who didn’t “live” using your definition, whatever that is, being in heaven? We were in the Garden of Eden before man screwed up. We would still be there if those there hadn’t gone against the word of God.
What happens when you drop a pebble into the middle of a circular, unmoving pool of water? Little waves move out from where you dropped the pebble and keep going until they meet the edge of the pool and then they move back toward the center.
What happens when a woman has a procured abortion? Her action is the pebble and it sends waves out and out and out because the edge of the pool is so far away. Her act of murder keeps engulfing more and more people, most of whom aren’t even aware of it. Her act of evil has a negative impact on this world we live in.
Now multiply that by a billion pebbles, all in the same pool. Now we have turbulence as all the waves of evil and murder meet and join until the water is roiling.
That is the evil of abortion. It tears down the mother, the father, siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, grandparents, friends, people just walking by an abortion clinic and feeling a pang in their hearts. It rips tears in the fabric of society. It taints our world - a world which was given to us to foster, not kill. It was given to us by a loving God, just as a loving God gives us children. They don’t belong to us. We have no right to kill them.
All acts of evil taint our world, but abortion is particularly heinous. We spit in God’s face when we kill His human creation. We don’t care what God wants - we want to have sex because sex feels so good and who cares if a baby gets killed? We are so selfish with God’s gifts.
When we consider all the evil acts that people have performed over the millenia we have been present here it becomes so vast and so ugly that no human can comprehend it. God can because He is omniscient. We can’t understand God. We have to take certain things on faith. We are only human beings with paltry human brains and we don’t even use what brain power we have.
But God is just and loving and it will all make sense in the end.
And right now, to be honest with you, I wish I was not in this world because it pains me so much to be here and you will never know the extent. If I felt I could leave this world right now I would because I see evil and hate and murder being touted as solutions and goodness and rightness and what they really are is a black, yawning horror.
Ave Maria, Gratia plena, Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria! Mater Dei, ora pro nobis
peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.
