As I have been reading news reports about “The March for Life 2012” I notice things. Such as the Washington Post never has a long shot of the crowd. They have about ten pictures two of which are of the pro-abortion counter-protesters and four of which were protesters engaging with the pro-abortion activists. All of the pictures are tight on the face and two just of a hand holding rosary beads. So the impact is that an undeterminable amount of people were at the march, so multiple comments claim that there were only about 200, tens of thousands in fact, and there were an indeterminate amount of counter- marchers, probably also 200 or more, 11 in fact. When one sees pictures which normal people take of a march what one sees is an ocean of humanity. I also read the comments pages because it matters to me how people process information. A comment I read among the hundreds is that we are heading for Christian Sharia Law. In Sharia Law if one is caught stealing that person’s hand is cut off, it being the vehicle of the offence and thus its absence would also cause the community to be aware of the person as a past offender. In abortion law if two people have sex and a pregnancy results a baby is broken and sliced into pieces, a baby is a logical outcome of the sexual act and the couple wishing to hide themselves from the logical outcomes of their sexual act. Abortion is far worse than Sharia Law.
Only if a person were picked at random and made to answer for two person’s indiscretions could a practice be more unfair. This is simply allowing a member of your family to be killed for those very indiscretions. Abortion is more like the tyrant one would criticize in Iran, or the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, or the civil rights record of any tyrant really. The real difference is efficiency it would be hard to imagine 40 million or 50 million human beings destroyed by a despotic regime, it is estimated that 11 million people died in the Nazi concentration camps of those 6 million were Jews. Joseph Stalin starved 7 million people to death in the Ukraine. The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia murdered 2 million people. 400,000 people were killed in the Darfur genocide. 200,000 people died in the Bosnian genocide.
The objection to these comparisons to our abortion epidemic of these United States is of course that babies in a mother’s womb are not babies. A comment which I read yesterday illustrates this point stating that a fetus was actually a parasite, chemically masking itself from being attacked by the mother’s immune system and compromising a woman’s bodily integrity.
The obvious problem with this argument is that having babies is natural. A baby is not a parasite; even the author of such calumny was once a “parasitic” fetus. If a baby is at the top of a woman’s bodily pecking order this is a totally natural occurrence. Thus nature has made it so and thank God it has as there could be no humanity sans such measures.
A woman’s body even colludes with these “parasites” as it monthly makes itself ready for just such an occupation; making the perfect environment for the invasion. The womb is a perpetual turncoat pining to host a “parasite”; making things just so. “Your body your choice” it guffaws waiting for its chance to aid the resistance. Every female member of NARAL and Planned Parenthood, of a certain age of course, has this internal disconnect between the head, the heart, and the body, and particularly their uterus and ovaries issuing their monthly propaganda.
What adds insult to injury is that do to microchimerism having babies is incredibly beneficial to a woman’s health. Microchimerism is a process by which mothers and babies share cells across the placenta in utero. What this provides a mother is cell therapy for many decades after she has given birth, even though the mother’s immune system should have cleared these cells out in a matter of hours.
Dr. Kirby Johnson of Tufts Medical Center, Boston, relayed a story to illustrate these phenomena to NPR’s Robert Krulwich. A woman had been admitted to a Boston hospital with symptoms of hepatitis. She was an intravenous drug user who had five recorded pregnancies: one live birth, two miscarriages, and two abortions. Johnson took a liver biopsy of her as a part of his examination and found after reviewing the lab results hundreds of fetal cells, “literally sheets of cells, whole areas which seemed to be normal.”
In conclusion, Christian Sharia law is not on the horizon, the abortion law in place now is far more illogical and backwards than Sharia law. A fetus is a baby in a particular stage of development and not a parasite. Pregnancy is not simply a woman’s burden but also a very real blessing and last, but certainly not least, one must read or watch the news with an eye for distortion and be willing to share the truth on comment boards. Now put your hands upon your keyboard we break on three; one, two, three, break!
