It might help if we defended the right to life from other perspectives in addition to the Catholic moral belief. For example, child euthanasia is now legal in the Netherlands since I believe 2004
for very ill children.
msnbc.msn.com/id/6621588/ The decision of
who is worthy of life and
who is not may be seen as a perpetual struggle for the human race: slavery, colonialism, genocide, euthanaisa, forced sterlization, abortion, child euthanasia, death tourism, these things may all be interrelated to the human tendency to divide into in-group and out-group and benefit ourselves under the logic of
“helping other people”.
I am wrong about many things and may be wrong about this as well, but right now I see the “right to privacy” in abortion as similar to the “right to property” in slavery. And the argument that unwanted babies are better off dead as similar to the argument that black people were inferior and were better off as slaves. For black people, it took a talented tenth as Booker T. Washington said, to argue for the rights of the race as a whole. Since abortion survivors are few, it may be harder to find them, but people like Gianna Jesson,
giannajessen.com/ whose 17 year old parents tried to abort her, but who survied the 18 hour long saline abortion anyways with the side effect of cerebral palsy and was placed into a foster-care home, and is now a singer and pro-life Christian who has said - in abortion we talk about the rights of women,
“what about my rights” might be the talented .0001%
This issue is in my prayers.
*Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. *
Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse. Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your well beloved spouse.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world! For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee and those who do not!
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
*Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee. Blessed art Thou among women and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. *
