Sunday
Screams in the Night
Over fifty years ago, Whittaker Chambers disclosed the terrifyingly real potentiality of a Communist takeover in the United States in his immortal testimony Witness. In this work Chambers described the feelings of one former Communist who defected because while living in Moscow "one night he heard screams."
This statement has been on my mind a lot recently. My trip to Washington D.C. to mourn the Roe v. Wade decision in the March for Life was not uplifting, since no matter how many people march on the Courthouse every year, progress seems to be negligent if any. This past election, together with the looming menace of the Freedom of Choice Act is like a devilish mockery of any attempt to hinder or stop legalized abortion.
Because while we struggle in vain with signs and bumper stickers, speeches and letters, and tirades on the blogosphere, who has not heard those screams? This time it isn't families torn apart by the KGB. It isn't the secretive terror of interrogations and midnight arrests, nameless graves and hopeless lives. It is the voice of the voiceless, crying out in endless agony. It is the silent condemnation of their tiny bodies lying in back alleys and dumpsters. The blood stained earth prosecutes our inaction.
Thousands of times a day the inconvenient among us are torn to pieces lest their existence threaten society's comfort. Those screams are deafening me as I try to carry out my daily routine. Screams of children who are never permitted to beg for their lives, though God knows they would have if they only had the words.
Human history is consistent in its ability to find new and appalling ways to mistreat anyone who is weaker or less competent to defend himself. But how can we rest easy in our beds knowing that the Satanic culmination of man's inhumanity to man is legal in a country which should be the world's last best hope?
May God grant our prayers and unstop the ears of those who will not hear, and may America soon experience the true silence of a quiet conscience.
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2 comments:
Amen.
you are too much to be taken seriously. how can you equate the atrocites comitted by the KGB and secret police organizations in the soviet union to abortion. its ignorant people like you that assure that roe v. wade will never progress. if abortion is "evil" then what was the holocaust? now ill spare you the rest of my insulting you i get the impression you honestly dont know any better. the only logical solution to the abortion argument in the united states as well as the rest of the world is this. a woman should have the right to choose under certain circumstances such as if she was raped. if you were a rape victim and had a child as a result you would be left with a constant reminder of what you suffered and unwanted responsablity that is in no way your fault. another reason for abortion would be if the doctor determines the mother is at very high risk of dying during or as a result of child birth. no child should have to go without a mother and no mother should have to die for her child. as a soon to be father at a young age which i perfer not to disclose i am opposed to abortion without a very good reason or circumstance but i disagree with the belief of ignorant people like your self who believe it is there job to save every unwanted child. if theyre lives are so important to you then you can take them into your home and raise them your self
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