Life...

"I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then."

I am reminded of Deuteronomy 30:19 every time I think of the abortion debate. I had planned to touch on some other topics today, but after reading a friend's blog entry and news out of South Korea that a life really isn't a life until labour occurs, it had me thinking differently.

I feel so strongly that abortion has become more about people being uninformed and uneducated than anything else and consequently starts with our youth. If the pro-abortionists won't allow the pro-lifers to use the Word of God to debate, then we must use facts and begin to educate our children (and our baby-boomer parents). My dear friend Judi, and the rest of Generation Life, have done such wonderful work educating the youth on chastity and abortion in the past couple of years and I encourage you to familiarize yourself with them and their mission.

I also cannot leave out professor Janet E. Smith, PhD, who was so instrumental in my education of the subject. Dr. Smith examines, not only abortion, but the role of artificial methods of birth control and its role in the moral downfall of our capitalistic country. (I think you can actually get her talks on cd for less than $5.00.)

So, since this will become a series to present the massive amount of facts accumulated, I’ll start this first entry with a prophetic piece from Servant of God Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, which was released 39 years ago (this past Wednesday) on July 25, 1968:

Responsible men can become more deeply convinced of the truth of the doctrine laid down by the Church on this issue if they reflect on the consequences of methods and plans for artificial birth control. Let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law. Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.

Wow. Maybe that explains the rise in marital infidelity and divorce, pornography, pre-marital sex, degradation of women, and abortion...

Next entry, I'll discuss the "Negro Project."

Our Lady of Guadalupe...

...pray for us.