A young girl has been killed following months of being
confined in a small room, unable to contact the outside world, completely
dependent for her every need. She was confronted by a man who stabbed her
repeatedly with a sharp instrument, finally dismembering her body and disposing
of it. Apparently this man was known to the girl’s mother.
No charges have been laid.
Nor will any further investigation be forthcoming.
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This fictional scenario is now a very real fact in the state
in which I live, following the amendment of Queensland’s abortion laws in our
state parliament. Despite widespread opposition, it is now legal to abort a
child in utero up to full term for nebulous reasons, with the signing off of
two practitioners. Some Queensland politicians were filmed cheering and hugging
one another as the legislation was passed and some of our capital city’s
bridges were illuminated in purple to “celebrate”.
To others of us, this is a tragedy.
There is no protection for the rights of the unborn child.
There is no protection for the rights of a father who would
wish to parent his child.
There is no protection for the women who are coerced by
others into aborting a wanted child.
There is only the “right” to be able to dehumanize the
process by which we all gained life and entered this world.
“Can a mother forget the baby at her
breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.”
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.”
Isaiah 49:15-16
God knows and cares for every child. God knows the grief
surrounding the abortion issue and has love and compassion for those living
with regret.
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