We cannot know God's purposes. It is due to our sinful world that babies are born malformed, and die. But you don't know how this child who lived only ten minutes affected the life of another. The fact that Marianna's aunt carried this baby to term despite hope of it having a normal life could have really witnessed to someone else. Perhaps she touched many lives through her convictions.
Obviously from what I've said, I am pro-life. I just find pro-choice arguements so absurd, and one of the things that really bothers me is that many supposedly intellegent people believe, or at least have convinced themselves, that it is perfectly morally okay to abort children. I liken the arguement that a fetus isn't a human being to the mindset of slave owners who said that Blacks weren't human beings. Slaves had few rights and no value beyond the labors they performed, yet none of us would deny that they are people of equal worth to us who had their human rights denied them based on prejudice. Isn't the same thing happening with unborn children? How can we honestly say that just because a baby can't yet live on it's own outside the womb that it isn't a person. That child has the potential to grow into someone like you or me, yet we think we have the right to deny him/her that based on the fact that we don't want that child - we don't find him valuable. A two year old is in a different stage of development than a ten year old, and the ten year old a different stage than an adult. Does this make the two year old child less worthwhile, simply because he doesn't yet have all the capacities of an adult. What's the difference between that two year old, and a baby still inside the womb. We are what we are. Once I was an embryo - that was still me.
And to use the arguement that this unwanted child has no chance at a good life and will grow up miserable, well, that's just a load of crap. If one would just be willing to carry the baby - take nine months out of their life - there are so many loving and stable couples who are yearning to adopt a child.
There's no way around it. Women who abort their children do it out of selfishness. They don't want to be inconvenienced by having to provide for another human being for nine months. It just doesn't fit into their schedule. They need to finish school, they just got a promotion, they want to go out and party with their friends.....and what about all that weight their going to gain. Some abort out of fear, which is still selfishness. Her parents will just kill her if they found out she got pregnant. What will the church think? We need to take responsibility for our actions. You have sex, hey, you might get pregnant - that's a consequence. People today think they can do anything they want without consequence. There's a quick fix for just about anything.
You know what the most frightning thing of all is? The fact that many are willing to admit that an unborn child is still a person, yet they argue that it is still okay to abort it due to the possibility that they may not have a great quality of life. This way of thinking is very close to that of Nazi Germany. How many children with defects and mentally handicapped people were eliminated (not to mention the six million Jews) because someone else judged them unworthy of life? So to those of you who believe that it is acceptable to abort human life, can you please explain to me how your views differ from Hitler's? Or do you not have a problem with the genecide of the 20th century?
