Preborn babies are tiny and defenseless. When their life begins, they’re just the size of a small speck, but they grow exponentially every day. They can’t defend themselves. They can’t speak. They’re totally reliant upon their mothers to keep them safe.
And their mothers are reliant upon society to teach them the truth about preborn babies.
Why can’t society do this? Why won’t society do this?
Young women are constantly bombarded with misinformation. This misinformation makes it hard for them to discern the truth, especially when women are shouting about their abortions or creating movies that make light of taking a baby’s life.
Those of us who know the truth must shout louder, more consistently, and with love. Those of us who know the truth must teach it.
If we are to save babies, we must change the mindset about babies. We must take our country from one that is solely focused on the mother and her wants and needs to a country that gives voice to the baby and recognizes his existence as a human being.
We must become a nation that cares about both moms and babies and that holds moms in high esteem. Not only that, but when struggling mothers need help, we must help them and teach them to help themselves—and then teach them to pay that help forward.
And we must never stop proclaiming and teaching the humanity of the preborn baby. This truth must ring out like the tolling of a bell.
Perhaps that is why a Polish pro-life group recently gave Pope Francis a bell, which he blessed and rang in the hopes that its ringing would “‘awaken the consciences of lawmakers and all people of good will in Poland and in the world’ to the value of unborn babies.”
Like the tolling of a bell, our voices should ring loud and clear with the proclamation that preborn babies are a blessing that we must protect. Our voices must consistently proclaim that all abortion is murder, that abortion is not an “issue” or a “right,” and that abortion also harms the mother—psychologically, physically, and spiritually.
Many organizations try to teach this truth. Our voices are heard, but they aren’t heard by enough people. That is why we must never feel shy or embarrassed to stand up for our beliefs.
One woman who isn’t afraid to stand up for her beliefs is Amy Barrett. Barrett—a Catholic judge and ND law professor who has seven kids (two of whom are adopted)—knows that babies are human beings from the very moment they are created. She is a frontrunner for the next Supreme Court justice.
But fearing that someone like Barrett might replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the next Supreme Court justice, some women are using their platforms as writers to elicit anger and panic and have even commented that they’ll personally donate to abortion clinics.
Why are so many women afraid of babies?
Are they afraid of morality, of selflessness, of being a part of something bigger than they? Or is it that they simply want to do what they want to do and everyone else—including their babies—be damned?
When a country collectively (and erroneously) claims that a baby is a possession, people stop seeing the humanity of that baby. Humanity is not something that is there only if the mother wants it to be. A child is human from the moment he is created. There is no right in the Constitution for a mother to kill her child. But there is a right in the Constitution for that child to live.
Our country needs a moral overhaul. And it’s up to each one of us to begin that overhaul. We must begin in our homes with our children. Then we can branch out to our communities and to the wider world, remembering what Christ said in Mark: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.”
Just like a bell is not useful if it doesn’t ring, the truth means nothing if we don’t speak it.
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