Editor:
“Abortion Provider Appreciation Day” declared by our Governor in Oregon (3/10/23) has got to be the lowest, darkest tragedy of our time – to date. It shows us the abyss of Satan’s darkness. “Make no mistake, this is a spiritual issue. It always has been. Because at its core, abortion is not just about politics or even ethics. It’s about how you see reality itself.”*
Most of us see life as a gift – but you see it as an accident.
Most of us see life with a spirit of awe – but you see it as an inconvenience.
Most of us see life with love, as the foundation of our society – but you see it as something to be disposed of at your will.
Is this about power to you?
It is an understatement to allow my word “killing” – to be replaced by your word “choice”.
It is a fraud to use my phrase “ending a life” – to be replaced by your phrase “reproductive freedom”.
It is a lie to allow The Truth to be obscured by your blinded slogans and jargons.
Do you really think you can, make a wrong right, by making it more palatable?
The louder you celebrate a wrong, will never make it right. “The need to frame it as a social good, as a moral necessity, reveals the guilt just beneath the surface. If abortion were truly nothing, no one would need to justify it. No one would need to celebrate it. The fact that it must be ritualized as a progress is itself an admission of its darkness”*.
Life is a gift, as all life is. Your life is a gift. Your worth and value is without conditions. I’m very sorry if you have never known that about YOU. It is time to believe the truth, beauty and goodness of your own creation. Know also there is nothing in your life that cannot be forgiven by God.
( * Taken from pastoral letter in truths and love from Archbishop in Oregon to his parishioners.)
Gert Helvey
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