WILL YOU DO SOMETHING? ANYTHING? NOTHING?
By David R. Kenney
In
J. R. Tolkien’s classic trilogy, The Lord
of the Rings, there is an interesting conversation between an uncle and his
niece in the made-for-movie version of The
Two Towers. The uncle is King
Theoden and the niece is Lady Eowyn. Theoden
and Eowyn hear of reports of foreign invaders that are killing the king’s
subjects—women and children. When the
king’s son is found alive but mortally wounded, she appeals to her uncle, King
Theoden, “Will you do nothing?” What she
does not realize is Theoden has a spell upon him that has clouded his
mind. She mistakenly thinks that his
inaction is due to apathy. Sometimes one
wonders if we are under “a spell of apathy” at times too!
We
are blessed by God to live in these United States of America which is a
representative republic. This is clear
from the opening words of the U. S. Constitution—“We the People…” It seems that some have forgotten the rights
this document includes. As President
Ronald W. Reagan explained in his January 27, 1987 State of the Union Address,
after pointing out the 200th anniversary of our Constitution, why
our Constitution is unique: “Well, the difference is so small that it
almost escapes you, but it's so great it tells you the whole story in just
three words: We the people. In those other constitutions, the Government tells
the people of those countries what they're allowed to do. In our Constitution,
we the people tell the Government what it can do, and it can do only those
things listed in that document and no others.”
If
you are like me, and many others, you were repulsed by the gruesome details
revealed during the trial of Kermit Gosnell.
For example, one of the babies that Gosnell was convicted of murdering
was referred to as “Baby A”. I was
sickened to read the circumstances surrounding the demise of this precious soul,
as reported by LifeNews.com on May 13, 2013:
Baby A “…was the
biggest baby that Kareema Cross had ever seen delivered at Gosnell’s abortion ‘House
of Horrors’ clinic in the four years she worked there. He was delivered to
17-year old Shaquana Abrams at 29.4 weeks gestation, according to an ultrasound
record. Baby Boy A was so large, he did not fit into the plastic shoe box that
Gosnell tossed him in. Cross said she saw the baby pull in his arms and legs
while Gosnell explained the movements as ‘reflexes’ telling her the baby really
didn’t move prior to cutting the baby’s neck.
Baby Boy A was so large, Gosnell joked that ‘this baby is big enough to
walk around with me or walk me to the bus stop.’ Cross and fellow employees
Adrienne Moton and 15-year old Ashley Baldwin were all so ‘startled’ by the
size of the baby that they all took photos of the baby with their cell phones.”[1] Imagine having sat on a jury on this
trial and being forced to review the evidence up close! One of the jurors made this statement after
the trial: “It was definitely hard to see the
photos. There was cases where the photos of the babies were blown up and they
were right in front of your face and you had to stare–it was definitely hard
seeing that.”[2] I imagine this juror will live with
memories of these haunting images for the rest of his life because he had to examine the evidence. We have the luxury of turning our heads and
going about our lives. It is past time
for those in our country to realize that the trashcan is not our solution, but
I fear that if these trends continue, the trashcan will be our nation’s
destination, not solution. But what can
you or I do?
With
the horror of the atrocities committed by the convicted Kermit Gosnell and the
realization that there are others of his mindset out there, there is a
resurgence of interest in eliminating the heinous abortion status of “abortion
by demand”. If you think that a woman
cannot legally abort a child at any stage of pregnancy, then you have forgotten
the debate on the partial birth abortion procedure in which this procedure was
banned. Individual states can pass
restrictions on abortion so you may want to investigate what your state is
practicing. You have an opportunity to
actually do something to curb abortion in our country as we fight back this
holocaust in our nation.
There
is a bill in the House of Representatives that is being proposed to ban all
abortions past 20 weeks of the child’s gestation. H.R.1797
Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is proposed legislation to ban all
abortions in our nation after 20 weeks of pregnancy because scientists know the
child experiences pain at this stage of development.
Perhaps you do not know what to write? Here is what I wrote to my Representative,
who is “Pro-Choice”. Copy it
word-for-word if need be:
Dear Representative, The Gosnell Trial
was gruesome! We need to do more to stop these late term abortions. Can we not
agree that at 20 weeks a child is present in the womb? With all the available
methods of avoiding late term abortions, can we not agree that at 20 weeks we
should work to preserve the life of the child AND the mother? Please support
"Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act" (H.R. 1797)! Respectfully,
Think we cannot do anything?
Think again! I personally worked
with Christians, and others, to sign a petition to support Ohio House Bill 78 – Post Viability Abortion which would have
outlawed all abortions once the fetus reached the stage of development in which
he/she could survive outside the womb.
In effect, it prohibits abortions past 20 weeks of child’s development. The bill passed in the Ohio House (65-33),
Ohio Senate (22-7) and was signed into law by Governor John Kasich on July 20,
2011. There was bi-partisan support for
this bill because even several in the “pro-choice” crowd recognize that this
restriction was reasonable in their eyes. So it can be done!
The question remain: Will you do: Something? Anything? Nothing?
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