Abortion Tourism

Abortion Tourism 

California may fund abortion "tourism"!

And yet . . .

California is considering funding abortion "tourism" to enable out-of-state women to obtain an abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned. And a New York Times guest essay disparages those who suggest adoption as an alternative to abortion by noting the pain mothers feel when they give away the children to whom they give birth.

The author is convinced that "abortion is a form of health care" and that "every woman should have access to it if she needs it." And yet she notes that with adoption, "a woman has to relinquish not a lump of cells but a fully formed baby she has lived with for nine months." How can she not see that the former, whatever she calls it, is only an earlier stage of the latter?

She writes that pregnant women "undergo the bonding with a child that happens by biological design as an embryo develops into a living, breathing, conscious human" and laments that "then that child will be taken away." She also points to the "relinquishment trauma" some adopted children may experience. The fallacious and tragic assumption motivating her article is that abortion can thus be preferable to adoption for mothers who do not want to bear children and for such children as well.

Another New York Times article exposes a website that provides explicit directions on how to die and provides a forum on which some encourage others to choose suicide.

 The Times has identified forty-five website participants who later killed themselves and writes that "the trail of deaths is likely much longer." As I read the stories of some of the victims, I thought of my children and grandchildren and of all the families who have lost children and grandchildren in such a horrific way.

May we turn to Jesus, the Author of life, and allow Him to give us hope in hopeless circumstances and to give us love for the precious lives we conceive.