Abortion Dilemma By Giovanni Maria Tommaso
There is no dilemma in the issue of abortion. We are commanded to choose life. In fact, this is the only choice that we have as a people of God. The problem is that it has been made a political football and tossed in among so many unrelated, non-related, issues that the truth has become obscure. The people of God are all peoples reconciled in God through his Son, Jesus Christ. We receive our sanctification, sacredness, and dignity from God for God knows us in our mother’s wombs.
That is why abortion should not be an issue because it has already been overturned in the hearts and minds of the people; their consciousnesses are free, and governments must respect the truth and the will of the people and not their own whims. Those in government know the will of the people and know how they should vote the issues concerning them. That is the very reason, and I say, the only reason they were elected to their specific offices. Not because of their personal needs or wants nor their special interests or tastes but to be the champions of truth; true servants of the people.
However, government is big business no matter where in the world it operates and if money is the only reason for its existence, then it needs to be voted out of office and re-established through reform according to the present laws established for such purposes so that it may again become the servant and helpful helper of the people.
All that government establishes should be without usury and in good faith, with good will, and have no contrived and construed blanket preferences. The only government worth having is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, so that it shall not perish from the earth; Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863.
Footnote: you are reading this article because you are a survivor; you escaped abortion, thank God every day. You were not suffocated, strangled, prematurely induced into labor specifically to be aborted through vivisection nor were your body parts sold on the market for the almighty money.
Some simple poems from AS SIMPLE, SIMPLY SAID read in the light of the article.
NOT ABORTED
Every day I thank God
*****that I was not aborted.
My biological parents
*****had every motive for it.
Look at all I’ve done.
*****I was allowed to live.
No one has the power of
*****Life and Death, and
He/she who thinks so, is
*****unbelievably full of sin.
EMPTY LOVE
If love was just a word,
*****and people made of stone,
Flowers only for decorations,
Moods only made of fantasies,
Emotions just simple thrills,
An act of love would be -
*****Empty.
*****Simply a state of mind.
YOU
I want you because I love you.
I love you because you are wonderful.
Your breath is life.
Spring is your heart.
The sun is your soul and
Your radiance is good my little child.
Your body is beauty;
Freedom your mind.
Love is your pleasure;
Kindness your time.
PENSANDO
Incorrect thinking, faulty reasoning,
*****Lead to wrong conclusions.
Wrong conclusions, lead to wrong actions.
Wrong actions, lead to wrong consequences.
Wrong consequences, lead to disappointments.
Disappointments, lead to incorrect thinking, and faulty…
See the cycle, the never-ending dilemma?
EVIL DEED
It is an evil deed
*****to cross a bridge, and
Find the other’s heart,
*****not joyed at your seeing.
THINGS
The modern trials and tribulations of today,
*****are contrived and manipulated by forces unseen.
BUTTONS OF THOUGHT
Buttons of thought, holes of passage,
*****bound together by threads of Faith.
SPIN DOCTORS
Masters of deception; masters of deceit,
*****the Spin Doctors pervert and twist
All that they see and seek; they hear what
*****words and circumstances fit into their advantage,
And that can be circumnavigated into webs of confusion.
*****Always first, always wrong, dead on!
Giovanni Maria Tommaso is a published poet and EzineArticle writer. Visit his website and comment in the blog at http://paginamia.com/ while there, read some poetry and critiques.
For an autographed copy for yourself or a friend please contact the author on 719-542-1463. Tommaso publishes through the Xlibris Publishing Company. All poetry, articles, reviews, stories Giovanni Maria Tommaso 2010
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Roe versus Wade
We celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. legacy this week. Today, we must also grieve for the 50 Million babies that were executed since the controversial ruling was passed to legalize abortion. This day of mourning occurs around the same time each year. We must stop and think about those who might of been. We were once a nation that defended life. Now we have become one that destroys the most innocent of lives without giving them a second thought.
We do this mostly out of convenience. Unfortunately, we have become a convenience-based society. As far as those who support abortions, a unwanted child is fairly easy to throw away without a second thought. We don’t stop and think what that child might do and what they may grow up into. We often love our conveniences and our luxuries more than we love the potential of one human life. I am saddened when I think of where we would be today if the law that allowed the slaughter of innocent, unborn life was never enacted.
Please take a few minutes and think about this atrocity that occurs each year and find ways to reach others so we may someday stop this travesty of human slaughter. We have the power to stop it. We must use this peaceful power of our voices to change hearts and the power to vote those who would change the laws to protect human life once again.
The power is within our hands. The question is: “Will we act to stop the killing or will we give up and let the bloodshed continue?”
The choice is up to us!!
Categories: Abortion Facts, Abortion and Politics Tags: abortion, abortion clinics, abortion cost, abortion effects, abortion laws, abortions, late term abortion, Roe vs. Wade
President Ronald Reagan Speaks Out on Abortion By Johnny Kicklighter
In 1983, President Reagan wrote an essay for the “Human Life Review” entitled, “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation.” This brief writing of his pro-life philosophy was published in book form a year later. It was expanded to approximately to 95 pages with lengthy afterwords by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and British essayist Malcolm Muggeridge. Reagan’s brief composition is probably one of the better well-argued pro-life essays ever written. It is also significant as it was the first ever by a sitting President. It was President Reagan’s attempt to awaken a nation to the implications of abortion. In this short book, President Reagan gives an account on how important the issue of abortion is to the “conscience of a nation.”
President Reagan’s essay is only 26 pages of the book, but it is well structured. He believed that diminishing the life of the unborn diminishes the value of all human life. He tackled the pro-abortion “quality of life” argument and compared it to the Dred Scott slavery issue. Reagan likened the pro-abortion argument to slavery and drew parallels between the Roe vs. Wade decision and the Dred Scot decision that divided America over a century earlier. According to Reagan, the quality of life argument is an argument for quality control of the population.
Reagan surmises that legalized abortion is a very slippery slope. He says that unborn babies are being killed because they are simply not wanted or come at an inconvenient time. He also states that many are killed because they will be unable to lead a “normal” life as the result of birth defects. Such babies are considered to be of less value and thus denied human rights. He claims this denial of human rights is accomplished by activist judges who frame the interpretation of the US Constitution through the lens of their own pro-abortion beliefs.
Reagan believes that the arbitrary evaluation of unborn lives must stop. He states that this philosophy will lead to further the crimes of infanticide and illustrates this by citing the Indiana case of “Baby Doe.” Baby Doe was allowed to starve to death because the child had Down’s syndrome. The essence of Reagan’s argument is that no nation can survive and prosper when a group of individuals look at a child and declare whether that child has value as a human being. Reagan goes on to say, “Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.”
The pro-life movement will not be disappointed with Reagan’s essay, and will conclude that it contains very powerful and logical anti-abortion arguments.
Johnny Kicklighter is a charter contributor to the Mosaic Pregnancy & Health Centers, (formerly the New Beginnings Pregnancy Care Center) Fairview Heights, Illinois. Johnny is also an instructor and counselor at the Gateway Biblical Counseling and Training Center.
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