An Inconvenient -- But Self-Imposed -- Truth
Planned Parenthood has been running an ad in our newspaper for a screening of a film entitled Rosita. Here's how the ad describes this film:
"Rosita" is an award winning documentary that shows the plight of a nine year old Nicaraguan girl, who becomes pregnant as the result of rape. This emotional story pits her family against the government, the medical establishment and the church in a battle over whose life has precedence.
Did you catch that last phrase? ...a battle over whose life has precedence. The logical inference when one considers that phrase is that more than one life is at stake, and it can also be logically assumed that if one of those lives belongs to Rosita, then the other belongs to Rosita's unborn child. What's intriguing is that the Planned Parenthood ad seems to be admitting that the fetus is, indeed, a human life, and I don't recall ever seeing that in any of their material.
Assuming that this isn't an oversight in letting copy stray from the "party line" (which I suspect it is), it would be wonderful if Planned Parenthood's "counseling" of pregnant women would now include the fact that their decisions impact two human lives, instead of one life (the mother's) and one blob of inconvenient tissue. When presented with the truth of the matter, I wonder how many of those women would elect to proceed with disposal of their inconvenient truths?
I also discovered via the ad that Planned Parenthood has a "national chaplain." Rev. Ignacio Castuera holds that position of dubious integrity. My initial thought was that one would have to be able to perform some prodigious feats of self-delusion to hold such a position, but after some additional consideration, I admitted that nothing surprises me anymore. Anyway, Rev. Castuera was recently given an award for his work in the "choice in dying" arena. It's devastatingly ironic that such a choice is not extended by the Reverend and his flock to those who are most vulnerable -- the other life alluded to in the above mentioned ad.
Sad and sickening.
Posted by: Stephen Shores at January 15, 2007 08:24 AMPlease, allow the only Judge to judge. I don't think I would ever have an abortion. At this point, I wouldn't. I have also not been presented with every different horrible scenario: rape, incest, health issues, etc. So, while I don't think I would now, I would at least like to know I wouldn't need to go to a shack with no running water if the need truly arises. Honestly, I am the one that has to deal with the situation and deal with my Maker, so therefore, I am the one to make the decision and reap whatever reprocussions. No cattle calls from the stands needed. It cracks me up, and even greater, saddens me, to see how so-called loving Christians are the most negative and un-loving group. Why not concentrate on keeping boys/men from raping, keeping fathers from molesting, help people from being promiscious (free, easily available contraception), and getting all children currently in foster care/adoption agencies adopted?
Posted by: Denise at January 15, 2007 03:24 PMThe only judgments I see being levied are either at Planned Parenthood -- for its disingenuous (at best) propaganda -- or by you at those whose interpretations of God's will for life don't align with yours.
Posted by: Eric at January 15, 2007 04:37 PMNicely said.
Posted by: Foo at January 16, 2007 07:26 AMAbout the publisher
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Planned Parenthood has, in recent years, come to subtly admit that it's a life in there. Now, they still call it life and not, you know, a baby. But I suspect that that's partially because their clients - even the ones going through with the abortions, already know what they're doing. Ultrasounds, esp. the 3-D ones, have really put the kibosh on people deluding themselves down the "blob of tissue" path any longer.
That said, I volunteer at a crisis preganancy center and have for many, many years - and clients frequently look me in the eye and tell me "I would much rather kill my baby than give it away because then I know where it is. That makes me a better mother." So, the hatchet job PP and the culture has done on adoption is still alive and kicking - and the women who are getting abortions, by and large, know full well what they're doing and the consequences of their actions.
Sadly that tends to make the guilt and trauma they experience for years thereafter even worse then it was when they allowed themselves to be deluded into thinking of it as tissue.
Our world needs prayer.
Posted by: beth at January 15, 2007 07:31 AM