Because of popular news’ oft bias-laden sensationalism, I had no desire to watch the investigative videos regarding Planned Parenthood. Then, feeling the need for some sense of objectivity as I see comments posted here and there, I watched a few. There are times when words fail. This was a time when words fail – a time of silence. Voices have been silenced.
I don’t know what much I can write to process the heart-wrenchingness. Whether Planned Parenthood is actually selling baby parts or, in some twisted way, enabling research is beside the point for me. There is evil afoot and I mourn for the lostness of our society. I will likely not watch any more videos that may be released. I don’t need to gaze upon such evil.
However, there are two things I do want to share with you.
One. It tore me inside to one day be opening our envelope to the celebration of another boy, only to hear those same words (in a video) a few days later as a lab tech sifted through the remains of someone else’s little baby boy.
Two. With the raw and ugly reality of abortion being thrust before us, I think again and again of those women and men who have, once upon a time, made the choice to abort their child. If their moral compass has since been set aright, they are likely suffering – being weighed ever more with guilt, shame, and regret. Pray for these people! May they know forgiveness, consolation, and peace in Jesus.
Good post Ua. I had a similar response. The detachment and indifference of the science is foreign. I am not a veteran, but it has to feel similar to psychological processes present during killing in war.
And since the subject has been broached,
Do YOU feel that there is any moral responsibility/culpability for those that do not support socialized medicine and easy access to healthcare, two things that we KNOW will lower abortion rates?
I am sitting here asking myself how you are going to answer this question, and not indict people close to you. It’s a hard place to be… But the truth is the truth, no?
“Easy access to birth control” (and healthcare of course)
I remember Someone once saying, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone.” In some way, we are all broken and sinful. I do not think the greatest blame falls on those who oppose easy access to birth control or socialized medicine, but I do think it can be said such a one would be at some fault. These two issues you mention do not aim to bring about moral restoration as it relates to abortion and this is why I think they are not heralded as a constructive way forward. Rather, they aim simply to minimize the damaging effects of a society that is blindly wandering in a moral morass of relativism. They treat the symptoms, but do little to correct the course.
My mind has returned to this article, An Antidote for Wandering, often over the past year or two. It comes to mind again as I write this. We are a wayward people. Only with our eyes fixed on Jesus can we stay the course. And, it is too easy to turn our eyes towards others things – current events, issues of our day, our fellow man, and our good intentions.
Also, our morality can never be imposed upon mankind. I think it is not our place (certainly not our first responsibility) to dictate morality to the unbeliever. Morality, devoid of an anchor or of life, is legalism and simply some other strange ideology. Change is the Spirit’s work. We must simply live faithful to Christ, glorify the One True God, and aim to cultivate a society in which the Word might again find fertile hearts.
The Truth is the Truth – may we ever seek after Him.