American Thinker | Kyle-Anne Shiver | Dec. 14, 2007
The Abortion War still rages. The battles are mostly private affairs, often taking place in conversations between lovers in cars, or in college dorms or over coffee at Starbucks. Babies’ lives are fought over in private counseling sessions at Crisis Pregnancy Centers, in doctor’s offices and in the Yellow Pages or on the internet, one baby at a time. Some battles occur in living rooms between daughters and parents, or in church offices between pastors and a parishioner. Some are fought between a husband and a wife. It’s a one-baby-per-battle war. More than 45,000,000 souls lost Baby Battles since 1973. And still the war rages.
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To a population which has been brainwashed to accept the abortionists’ propaganda that we shouldn’t worry over it because it’s not a baby after all, the actual photographs of abortion are abhorrent and stir a great deal of emotion. “It’s just a clump of cells,” the abortionists have told us over and over again, until a great many among us have believed it.
But when one is actually confronted with enlarged pictures of little hands and feet, agonized expressions frozen in the throes of a violent death upon fetal faces with real eyes, noses, mouths and ears, the realization is dizzying, agonizing to those still trapped in the mindless state of denial.
So, of course there’s going to be a fuss over it; of course we do not want to see what our own choices have wrought.
A police officer, usually trained to separate personal feelings and beliefs from his work, is nevertheless a human being. And since 1973, abortion has affected vast numbers among our population. Nearly everyone now knows someone who has had an abortion, or has at least considered one. Nearly everyone has a sister or a brother or a cousin or a friend who has been touched by this pervasive “choice.” A large proportion of women have had abortions, and they serve as police officers too.
So, how do you think it affects them when they see up close and personal something they have been taught to think of as something else entirely? How does an officer react if he has been party to an abortion once he sees the tiny hands and feet of a real baby now dead? Just seeing the tormented, very discernable, bloody face of a totally innocent baby’s head, being held by surgical forceps would be enough to cause rage in any sane person. So, how would you feel if you suddenly were faced with a heinous act you yourself had partaken in or supported?
Precisely. Before we excised the word, “sin,” from our public vocabulary, we called that feeling the justified torment of shameful guilt.
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