Life or Ideology

One of the recent posts which have been forwarded to me shows a cute little girl of about two with hands joined, eyes closed and head bowed in prayer. The caption reads “Dear God. Could we please uninstall 2020 and re – install it?? It has a virus.!!

The pandemic Covid – 19, while in itself a global disaster on an unprecedented scale, has brought out the best in people and nations throughout the world.  So called lockdown in many countries with whole populations isolating at home has come about due to a respect for life, especially the old and most vulnerable who are more likely to perish if they contract the coronavirus. To save life at any cost is the driving force for expenditure on the NHS in the UK and health systems of other countries at this time. As we know many doctors and nurses and front line workers have paid the ultimate price as I pointed out in my last post.

Each and every person is precious and unique and has an irreplaceable part to play in making the world a better place for all. Each life is worth saving. Let’s think about how wonderful we are.

Every human being begins to exist through the meeting of an ovum and a sperm. Inside the fertilised ovum at the moment of conception there are already 23 chromosomes from each parent. Each chromosome contains genes. So inside something just a hundredth the size of a pinhead, are 22,000 genes. Every gene is a factory. So there are 22,000 factories. Each has its own job to do; each has its own part to play in the formation of another human being.

At the moment of my conception ‘I’ began to exist. From that moment I began to develop. My heart was already formed and working three weeks later, before my mother knew she was pregnant.

‘It was you who created my inmost self,

and put me together in my mother’s womb;

for all these mysteries I thank you:

for the wonder of myself, for the wonder of your works.

Psalm 139. 13 – 14

April this year marks the passing of the Abortion Act in 1968. According to the Society for Unborn Children (SPUC) website “the most recent figure for the total number of abortions throughout the UK since 1967/68 is approximately 9.5 million. Add to that, at the very least, 3 million embryos destroyed through IVF procedures over the past three decades, it makes twelve and a half million babies destroyed in total.”

In a BBC report a few weeks ago it was estimated the worst case scenario for the coronavirus could be 250, 000. It was headlined, “Coronavirus: UK changes course amid death toll fears.”

Yet the figure for abortion and discarded embryos in 2018 alone, the latest figure, is 380,000 – a much higher death toll. (SPUC)

So we have on the one hand an immense and commendable effort to save lives in this pandemic and on the other hand and an unrelenting death toll of unborn babies.

Slogans such as “a woman’s right to choose,” and “every child a wanted child,” point to an ideology predicated on the assertion that mothers have the right to take the life of their unborn child.

Women who felt they had no way out of an unwanted pregnancy other than abortion are suffering in untold ways because of their so called “choice.” The aftermath women stumble into following abortion is unimaginable. Woman too are the victims of abortion.

Things must not continue as before when this pandemic is over. A new respect for human rights. A new search for peace in the world. Addressing the refugee crisis and a serious quest to end world hunger and climate change – and –  new respect for life from the moment of conception to death throughout the world.

Ending the pandemic of abortion.

For those affected by this post with regard to abortion please contact www.archtrust.org.uk