A Battle Worth Fighting

 

For more than 25 years, I have been fighting for the lives of the unborn in any way that I can. It seems inconceivable to me that some people do not value the lives of the unborn. I realize this is a battle in which powerful forces are involved, including government, media, academia, corporations, and men and women who seek their convenience. On the other side are people who see abortion as simply a matter of choice. Their question is, “What right does anyone have to tell me what to  do with my life?” Our question is, “What right do we have to take an innocent life?”

Over these past 25 years, I have heard arguments such as it is not really a life but just a clump of cells, but that has been debunked since we know the little hearts start beating at one month.

Another argument is that this life would be better off ending now than facing the world that awaits it. That is debunked with the truth that there are people ready and willing to adopt babies given the chance. Language is critical to the abortion industry. In fact, the word abortion is never mentioned. Instead, women’s reproductive health care is substituted. Murder or killing of the fetus or baby is not said but rather a termination of the pregnancy.

There are many more reasons given to support abortion, but what changes everything is to consider that this is a moral issue. If there is a creator, God, who created all of us and is still creating through the process of the birth of a child, then we recognize this act of creation as sacred and not to be interfered with.

Even if we concede, and I do that when the life of the mother is at risk, then the mother’s life must be given priority. The morality of life is what answers the question of those who believe that life is sacred and no one has the right to take the life of another innocent person.