The Radical Permission to Kill Preborn Children

10-03-2021Weekly ReflectionFr. Hans Ruygt

October is Right to Life Month. Once again we see how much work lies ahead for those who believe in the sanctity of every human life from the moment of conception through natural death. Thou Shalt Not Kill.

Fri, Sep 24, just two weeks after remembering 9/11 with great sadness for all the innocent people who died that day from terrorist attacks, House Democrats passed a sweeping pro-abortion bill which they masked with the misleading title: “Women’s Health Protection Act,” voting 218-211.

How can people not be shocked and horrified when killing infants during all nine months is promoted as acceptable. How can society still adopt the notion that a child in the womb is a thing, a possession. Is that not a form of slavery? We belong to God. The privilege of motherhood has been turned into the right to give birth or to kill innocent babies with abandon. Society turns a blind eye to the genocide and racism that kills millions of people of color, disproportionately to whites. The color of the baby should not matter. A baby is a baby is a baby is a baby! It is not complicated. Follow the science...Follow the SCIENCE. See the ultrasound; study the DNA. This genetic material in the womb is not the same as the woman’s body. “My body, my choice” masks reality.

No human ought to ever be treated as a possession. So why do we allow the wholesale killing of innocent babies, not just in the first moments of their lives but through all nine months of pregnancy? They are not enemy combatants in a time of war. Can we not agree that, minimally, at least some limit must be put on abortion? How can we call ourselves civilized, compassionate?

Both political parties have abandoned human decency to radical extents, some more than others. But who put them in office? Why are very visible and vocal people proudly calling themselves ‘Catholic’ and pushing for abortion through all nine months? They get away with it, because we allow them.

This is real EVIL. It is the work of Satan and all his army of devils who chip away at every notion of virtue and decency and compassion until we call the support of legalized killing, “women’s health protection” hoping that good people will not notice the underlying reality that they will not rest until they eradicate all state-level pro- life legislation. We stoop to the lowest level of humanity.

I am disgusted with many of our politicians regardless of party affiliation who forcibly take the goodness of humanity and twist it into a mechanism of the devil.

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