There are a lot of pro-life/pro-choice articles being thrown around the internet since Obama’s inauguration. Partly I think this is to do with Obama’s decision to allow US government money to be used to fund abortions by family planning agencies overseas (read more here). I don’t think this is particularly significant – if America is going to allow abortions at home, it strikes me as hypocritical that they wouldn’t allow their money to be used to ‘pay’ for abortions overseas.
This morning I came across an online letter entitled “Four Reasons You Might Be Aborted: An Open Letter to Fetal Humans“.
The letter is addressed “To my fellow humans who are entering that most precarious stage of human development.”
After explaining the reasons why they might not end up being born, the letter ends:
“Your best hope is to pray and hope that others are praying for you too. With any luck you’ll survive the fetal stage of development and move on to infancy, adolescence, and adulthood. Once you reach this stage of life you’ll be able to join other Americans in exercising one of our most cherished and incontrovertible rights: the right to kill a fetus for any reason you choose.”
Read the whole letter here.
PS – as I was searching for an image to use for this post, I came across a site with some pretty horrific photos of post-aborted babies. I’ll warn you – I couldn’t look at them, but if you would like to, here’s the link. Do you think publishing these photos helps or hinders the cause of the pro-life movement?
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And another interesting article: http://theologica.blogspot.com/2009/01/abortion-and-obamas-first-few-days.html
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