Children are a blessing. They are a gift. They are not an inconvenience.
I write a post every year on this subject. Usually on the anniversary of Roe.VS Wade, but sometimes on Sanctity of Life Sunday. This one is just coming a little early. I've never understood and never will understand how anyone can think abortion is an option. The Pro-choice movement isn't a choice at all. It is instead a movement of murder preying on the innocent in the name of 'body rights'. I often read controversy surrounding the Pro-Life movement, complaints centered on the fact that those who champion life do not put so much effort into taking in the children who are given up rather than killed. There are times when that is a valid point. The number of children that need families is growing, quickly, but that doesn't excuse the fact that abortion is still murder. You cannot kill a child on the basis of the current number of children lacking a family. Personally, such a point is weak and doesn't hold water. Given the chance I'd happily say give me as many as I can take. I write an annual post on adoption every Orphan Sunday. I want to adopt. While it isn't feasible for me to adopt every child that might be aborted otherwise, I'd do it if I could.
I do not anger easily, but abortion is one of the few things that makes me angry. If I could say it was solely righteous anger that would be fantastic. Unfortunately the issue stirs up envy so what I feel is not altogether the kind of anger that is o.k. to feel. It angers me because I see not just the murder of a child who is created in the image of God but a flippant act that ends something that I cannot experience. Children will not come for me through biological means. The act of killing a child because you aren't ready to be a parent or you didn't want to be a parent is a deeply felt waste of a gift as far as I'm concerned. This is something that is incredibly hard for me to guard against. Why God would render me unable to have what I want so badly, and yet allow those who so callously regard the blessing of a child as an inconvenient lump of cells to be done away with is a battle I fight whenever the topic arises.
Speaking as candidly as I can;If you are blessed with biological children do not take that gift lightly. Generally I cringe when I read adoption blogs and the dreaded 'but which are yours' question is broached because if I've adopted them they are mine, they have my last name. However, the journey that comes with biological children is vastly different and is a beautiful thing.
I've seen several posts recently on social media about how we can't cancel arts in school because we won't get the next David Bowie or Alan Rickman. We aren't going to get either of those again if abortion continues, they aren't going to get the chance to live and show the world the talents given to them. The year has just begun and the world has lost several highly talented people. These are people that have lived full lives and yet we mourn so strongly their passing. At the same time 108,141 children have been legally killed today and the number rises as I type, yet there is very little mourning or outcry, there is no social media wave of remembrance, instead there is silence. We need to stop this. We need to step up and speak out. Life matters, these children matter. They are the least of these.
Abortion isn't the answer, Love is. Choose Life.
“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.”
Psalm 127:3-4
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