I didn’t know about this until last week:
President Ronald Reagan issued a presidential proclamation on January 13, 1984, designating Sunday, Jan 22, 1984 as National Sanctity of Human Life Day noting that it was the 11th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, in which the Supreme Court issued a ruling that guaranteed women access to abortion. President Reagan was a strong pro-life advocate who said that in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court, "Struck down our laws protecting the lives of unborn children...Reagan issued the proclamation annually thereafter, designating Sanctity of Human Life Day to be the closest Sunday to the original January 22 date...
(Source: Wikipedia)
In light of this, and that this coming Sunday happens to be January 22, the 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it is an appropriate time to reflect on the sanctity, or sacredness, of human life.
The points I make about abortion in Broken Land are:
The main argument for the "pro-choice" movement is that you can't tell a woman what to do with her body. And for decades, I agreed with and chose to live that philosophy; hence, my abortions. But afterwards, even though I had a remorse I didn't understand, I never thought I was doing anything wrong. Because, as I explain in my book, I was led to believe that my pregnancy was nothing more than “a blob of tissue that could be eradicated by a surgical procedure that would take about twenty minutes and cost about two hundred dollars.”
There is Another Body to Consider
But what I didn't realize then but know now was that living inside of my body was another body, formed and generated completely independent of me. A body designed so that its own chemistry, not mine, could create the environment it needed to sustain itself. And that my only function would be to “house” that body and provide food for it, similar to what parents of “born” children do all the time.
That’s right, everything that unborn child inside of me needed to live was created independently by them, not by me. I learned this astounding information just recently, through listening to an interview on Carolina Catholic Radio with Dr. Diane Harris. Let me explain.
Though I provided a favorable environment for pregnancy to occur (engaging in promiscuous sex), I did not determine the “other body’s” sex, eye or hair color, or which DNA they would inherit from me and the person I had sex with. I did not facilitate the “other body’s” journey down my fallopian tube, nor implant them in the lining of my uterus. I did not stop my own menstrual cycle. The “other body” initiated all of this.
What I learned through Dr. Harris was that it’s the chemistry of unborn baby, not the mother, that generates the umbilical cord, the amniotic sac and the placenta. In addition, it’s the unborn baby who triggers the onset of labor pains, and the generation of breast milk.
So the the unborn baby needs only two things from the mother: a place to live and food to eat. The same things our “born” children need, the same children who were once unborn. Let’s remember this the next time we hear about “a woman’s right to choose,” and think hard about what that choice should really be. And pray that more more women will “…choose life, so that you and your children may live…” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
Listen to this interview with Dr. Diane Harris to find out more.
President Ronald Reagan issued a presidential proclamation on January 13, 1984, designating Sunday, Jan 22, 1984 as National Sanctity of Human Life Day noting that it was the 11th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, in which the Supreme Court issued a ruling that guaranteed women access to abortion. President Reagan was a strong pro-life advocate who said that in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court, "Struck down our laws protecting the lives of unborn children...Reagan issued the proclamation annually thereafter, designating Sanctity of Human Life Day to be the closest Sunday to the original January 22 date...
(Source: Wikipedia)
In light of this, and that this coming Sunday happens to be January 22, the 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it is an appropriate time to reflect on the sanctity, or sacredness, of human life.
The points I make about abortion in Broken Land are:
- It's not about being "pro-choice" or "pro-life." It's about making the right choice about life.
- It's not about changing federal laws. It's about changing minds and hearts to align with God's laws.
The main argument for the "pro-choice" movement is that you can't tell a woman what to do with her body. And for decades, I agreed with and chose to live that philosophy; hence, my abortions. But afterwards, even though I had a remorse I didn't understand, I never thought I was doing anything wrong. Because, as I explain in my book, I was led to believe that my pregnancy was nothing more than “a blob of tissue that could be eradicated by a surgical procedure that would take about twenty minutes and cost about two hundred dollars.”
There is Another Body to Consider
But what I didn't realize then but know now was that living inside of my body was another body, formed and generated completely independent of me. A body designed so that its own chemistry, not mine, could create the environment it needed to sustain itself. And that my only function would be to “house” that body and provide food for it, similar to what parents of “born” children do all the time.
That’s right, everything that unborn child inside of me needed to live was created independently by them, not by me. I learned this astounding information just recently, through listening to an interview on Carolina Catholic Radio with Dr. Diane Harris. Let me explain.
Though I provided a favorable environment for pregnancy to occur (engaging in promiscuous sex), I did not determine the “other body’s” sex, eye or hair color, or which DNA they would inherit from me and the person I had sex with. I did not facilitate the “other body’s” journey down my fallopian tube, nor implant them in the lining of my uterus. I did not stop my own menstrual cycle. The “other body” initiated all of this.
What I learned through Dr. Harris was that it’s the chemistry of unborn baby, not the mother, that generates the umbilical cord, the amniotic sac and the placenta. In addition, it’s the unborn baby who triggers the onset of labor pains, and the generation of breast milk.
So the the unborn baby needs only two things from the mother: a place to live and food to eat. The same things our “born” children need, the same children who were once unborn. Let’s remember this the next time we hear about “a woman’s right to choose,” and think hard about what that choice should really be. And pray that more more women will “…choose life, so that you and your children may live…” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
Listen to this interview with Dr. Diane Harris to find out more.
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