Rob Colquhoun

Why is being pro life so important?

 

Abortion is the most important and contentious issue our country faces because every year, 200,000 unborn children are murdered by induced abortion, when they do not have the ability to defend themselves. In the words of Roman Giertych, the Polish deputy prime minister and education minister said in 2007 that, “The nation that kills its children is a nation without a future.” Because human life is sacred from the moment of conception, it is most important that we nurture life and ensure it is revered as precious. In the British parliament, 700 hours were spent debating the foxhunting legislation whereas just 3 hours were spent debating the value of unborn children, when the topic of abortion had not been properly addressed since 1990.

 

If we consider what is at stake in the pro life issues, if the pro choice position is objectively true, the right to choose should be a right and no-one should undergo the inconvenience of an unwanted child. But should the pro life position be correct, hundreds of thousands of babies are being brutally murdered, many for the sake of handiness. It is time to draw the line- both positions cannot be correct simultaneously.

 

Professor Stuart Campbell has greatly helped the pro life movement by showing some 3D pictures of babies in the womb doing typically the things that babies do: sucking their thumb, yawning and smiling. This has helped to communicate the human nature of the foetus- a counter argument those who just presume that is a clump of cells. Modern technology has helped us to visualise what normally is hidden inside the womb, helping us to see that a baby inside the womb is not terribly dissimilar to one outside the womb.

 

Doctor Bernard Nathanson has made a thoroughly convincing film called the silent scream. In this we see how a baby, just prior to be aborted, gives off considerable stressful signs and attempts to avoid being attacked by the tools of the abortionist. It compellingly conveys how human life is just as present in the womb and can even struggle to live and communicate inside the womb. This particularly tragic incident caused Doctor Bernard to change heart from being ardently pro choice to firmly pro life. And through his work he has managed to influence many thousands of others.

 

Jana Tutkova has been doing some excellent pro life work in Slovakia. During contentious debates about whether abortion is constitutional or not, Jana has made many adverts of aborted foetuses on billboards around the country- forcing the debate into the public and getting many people to wake up to the genocide that is happening. Although the billboards are particularly graphic and would not pass advertising standards in the UK, Jana has managed to change hearts and minds by the sheer reality of what abortion is. Jon Snow in the UK dismissed this approach in the UK as sheer propaganda, but the pictures are precisely what happens in reality behind closed doors.

 

Many have forgotten that abortion is still a crime in the United Kingdom as it has only been partially decriminalised. Part of the reforms of the 1967 abortion law in 1990 was to allow abortions up to birth for those suspected of having a disability. We have great numbers of laws for the provision of disabled toilets, ramps and access across the country, but when the disabled are being screened and murdered before they are able to access all these wonderful services we can see that something is seriously wrong! How is it possible that discrimination of the disabled is permitted so blatantly in the womb, but not on the pavement? Abortion laws have largely come in the twentieth century as part of a culture of death that has descended on the western world. Many women abort the only children they will ever have. This is a true tragedy, yet there is healing, compassion, mercy and forgiveness for those who have had this terrible experience.

 

Above all, a new sexual revolution needs to occur with a phenomenal culture change before the scourge of abortion diminishes in the western world. This will happen through the rediscovery of modesty and chastity as joyful ways of life. An opening of many compassionate alternatives to abortion also needs to be examined, such as housing, adoption and counselling for those involved in this trauma.