By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK
In the midst of our national pastime at Super Bowl 50, the abortion battle flared again.
The television ads that often prove to be light entertainment, cleverly advertising as they do commodities like junk food and cars, can even prove to be causes of contention. NARAL tweeted a petulant protest of a Doritos ad which aired during the big game featuring a sonogram image of a baby who kept reaching to help himself to Dad’s Doritos, ultimately leaping inside the womb to dive after them.
How dare the producers “humanize” the fetus through the use of ultrasound? NARAL pouted, enraged that this might put “choice” at risk. The scuffle that ensued resulted in the battle for the Super Bowl trophy coming second for some to the ongoing cultural “battle for the babies.”
Abortion once again proves itself to be the issue that won’t die a quiet death like the millions of preborn boys and girls slaughtered in the course of the natural process of conception and birth since the 1973 legalization of abortion through Roe v. Wade. Even among young people, many of whom are trending toward the Socialist candidate for president Bernie Sanders, and many of whom poll favorably on the redefinition of marriage, the pro-life message is finding increasing resonance.
Childish petulance in the face of scientific advances like ultrasound and the ridiculous spectacle it makes of — we must assume — grown adults at NARAL aside, this tweet proved to be an absurdity roundly mocked by a wide variety of Twitter users and other Internet denizens. The social flare-up highlights once again the consequences of the abortion ideology, which rejects any truth which would threaten to deny its own personal definition of freedom and, mendaciously, sex without consequences only for the mother.
The social attempts to reignite the glamorization of the “choice” of killing the child as if without consequences for choosing one life over another proves itself to be a lie. One cannot explain away the grief of millions of post-abortive women who live every day with the very real consequences of a rash and ill-advised “choice” often made without the sobering facts that an ultrasound would have provided.
The social “mortal sin” of using ultrasound to show the living baby moving, living, and growing inside the womb to the prospective mother and father is despised and attacked for the real “risks” it threatens to the abortion industry. This advance of medical science itself must be denied as it puts the profits of Planned Parenthood and other entities that exist and prosper on this crime, feeding as they do off the corpses of aborted babies.
The Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal is just one more aspect of this insatiable lust for death.
The Zika virus scare, as painted by the media in recent weeks, proved another case of never letting a good crisis go to waste and turned out, in some aspects, to be just one more Trojan horse for advancing the agenda of abortion advocates.
A white Hollywood starlet is praised and adored for adopting a brown or black baby, but the baby’s own parents in the child’s own country are urged to end his or her life and those of his or her siblings if there is any threat of disease. An inherent injustice is seen in the rationing of health care for babies with disease based on where they are born. Once again, another opportunity for the spread of the abortion plague is seized through a seeming “compassion” for babies who may be born in certain countries in a less than “perfect” condition. Yet, no child yet born has been perfect in humanity except the Savior Himself.
Pro-life advocates in response to the abortion lobby made available some of the abundant evidence that life is still sacred for the child born with microcephaly, or any other disease, as for anyone else. As I tweeted in response, “Babies with diseases are human beings and all human life is sacred. Heal babies; don’t kill them” which fetched 30 retweets and 45 likes as of this writing.
God Himself is free as no other being can be, and His freedom is bound up inextricably with His holiness; thus freedom is always holy as expressed and defined by God Himself in his Law of the Ten Commandments, one of which is, “Thou shalt not kill.”
Killing does not confer freedom, for the one who kills or for the victim. But, as God’s law makes clear, the perpetrator of this sin suffers the worst of consequences, for he or she proves a sinner who has lost eternal life without subsequent repentance and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
One of the highlights for the Year of Mercy as urged by Pope Francis is the forgiveness of the sin of abortion. Missionaries of Mercy have been commissioned in Christ to “seek out and to save” those who are lost, that God’s healing forgiveness might spread far and wide. Our efforts in cooperation through the fasting, prayer, and almsgiving of Lent can be offered for this work and intention.
Let us pray and sacrifice together as His Body in the world that Christ’s giving of His new life will be abundantly conferred upon the adult victims of abortion, the mothers and fathers who procured the death of these innocent martyrs of the bloodthirsty and false god named “choice,” as well as to its martyred child victims.
Thank you for reading. Praised be Jesus Christ.
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