I hardly know how to begin this post. This topic has weighed very heavily on my heart for some time now. As floods have swept away both lives and livelihoods, and now cyclones have battered our nations coastline, yet those natural events don't hold a candle to the destruction that is being wrought by our national disgrace.
Based on an estimate from 2005, close to 200 babies a day are killed in our country. As long as a human baby is at least partially inside the womb in the state of Victoria, it has less rights (i.e. none at all) than a chick embryo in the third trimester.
I'm not even going to publish the horrible details of what is now completely legal in the state of Victoria - it is simply too unbearable. Cold, hard facts, unembellished by pro-life proponents, can be found at this government site http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Abortion_in_Australia. For anyone who doubts just how disgusting late-term abortion is, you can search for yourself. In my mind, it amounts to nothing short of torture.
Our national disgrace is that while the rights of animals and the antics of footballers hit the front pages of our papers, abortion does not. Our national disgrace is that I received many emails asking me to attend rallies to protect the rights of mothers to give birth at home, I received none pleading with me to protect the right of a child to be born. I received numerous emails begging me to sign a petition to protect a woman in another country from being put to death, but no one has asked me to sign a petition to prevent the ... I can't even write it ... to prevent what is done to late-term babies in order to remove them from their mothers womb.
More recently, many have asked me to rally around to support those who have lost their homes and experienced terrible trauma in the recent Queensland floods, but no one has asked me to rally around to encourage and help pregnant women who believe their only support network is an abortion clinic, and who are likely to suffer years of trauma later in life.
At election time, the rallying cry of politicians has been to invest in the economic stability of our nation. There has been no mention of the emotional stability of a nation which engages in the wholesale slaughter of defenseless children (YES! They are children, not merely "fetuses" or "embryos"). I can only conclude that politicians focus on economic stability because that is what our nation cares about and that is what will get them elected.
As I cuddle my own baby girl, I feel like she is the one being threatened by our national disgrace. And the reality is that the threat to her is very real. When we hold life so cheap that it is legal to throw a living baby - surgically removed from it's mother's body - into a dumpster (or worse), what possible hope can we have for the future of our children? We can expect them, as a generation, to grow up believing in the disposability of people (while, in all likelihood, they will vehemently defend the rights of animals).
I can offer only one remedy for our national disgrace - to pray and ask God for forgiveness and healing. I know that the only true defender of the unborn can be God himself, and knowing what happens in abortion clinics across our nation (and other nations) every day motivates me to be all the more urgent in my pleas to God for HIS Kingdom to come.
Abortion is not merely the sin of a few desperate women and amoral doctors, it is the disgrace of our nation. In the overwhelming majority we have contributed to its legalization. We have rejected God, torn down the foundations of marriage and family, and invested our lives in the pursuit of physical possessions. In the process, we have relentlessly destroyed our country's single greatest resource and blessing - its children. Many have wondered aloud how "ordinary" Germans could stand by while the holocaust occurred, little realising that Australia is engaged in the barbaric elimination of the unborn. We have yet to fully realize the returns on this diabolical investment, but unless we throw ourselves on God's mercy in abject repentance, we can expect that there is going to be hell to pay.
2 comments:
I don't think that I have to tell you that I'm anti-abortion, but I will say that I had come to accept that there was no changing minds of children eating fruit from the tree of knowledge of good & evil that abortion was wrong. I debated hard in highschool, at loggerheads with feminists proclaiming the 'greater good' of women's rights. It made me sick but I had come to accept that abortion would be part of this world & would only be abolished upon the return of Christ to government.
However back then, it was early term abortion we were debating. It was over the issue of when 'life' actually became 'life'. I had NO IDEA our society had reached the point of justifying the death of an older baby. We're not just talking about fish tailed embryo's anymore, but little babies, formed, recognisable humans. I've never accepted the scripture Lam 4:10, not comprehending HOW such a deed could be possible yet here we are, a society not even under life-threatening pressure of survival killing off little people. How devoid of emotion & love have we become! Wholly formed, little humans, babies, the very little ones that make our hearts soft & melt upon the sight of them. How can our society be so moved & enraged to fight for protection of weak, naive & defenceless children from all kinds of abuse & injustice but then support their slaughter? How is it possible a nation can become so hard & blind, even with Satan ruling it? I guess I was naive to think that the maternal/paternal bond to a young one was beyond manipulation. The world justifying early term abortion was one thing but late term, well there's no excuse. It is barbaric. Your post is well written. Have you considered submitting it to your local paper or other to raise awareness & fight this injustice? I just can't accept that Aussie's would accept this.
I know what you're saying about early term abortion.
Sadly, I think we have reached a stage where people now have the same attitude to late-term abortion and the sanctity of life... But perhaps you are right and most people wouldn't accept it. While we await Christ's return for real change to happen, perhaps there is value in alerting people to what is going on in our own country. I don't know, I have mixed feelings on this, but thank you very much for your comment. I, too, am flabbergasted at how callous at least some people have become, but I think it also shows how widespread confusion and deception has become in our world... I think many people really don't fully recognise what they are doing. That doesn't excuse it, of course, but helps me to remember that "there but for the grace of God go I".
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