"Volk, who covered Gosnell’s trial and has been speaking and corresponding with him since he entered prison, said that the convicted killer sees abortion as sinful on some level, but a lesser sin than a child being born into a life of poverty. "
I can think of a number of quotes from Literature that bear on the question, but the one that sticks with me is from W.B. Yeats:
Paudeen
Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite
Of our old Paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind
Among the stones and thorn-trees, under morning light;
Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind
A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought
That on the lonely height where all are in God's eye,
There cannot be, confusion of our sound forgot,
A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry.
As both the father and brother of a special needs child, this passage resonates deeply with me. My son and my brother are at immediate risk in the society that tolerates wholesale abortion, so-called "death with dignity" and the disaster that impends with Obama-care.
The "quality of life" argument is advanced by those bent on terminating it with no more compunction than one would squash a bug.
As to poverty, my grandparents and the parents and grandparents of my grandparents were born in poverty, lived through it, and engendered me, my siblings, my sons and daughters, and my cousins.
They embarked from Ireland in the steerage of "coffin ships" in the 19th Century and contributed to the growth of our Beloved Nation.
More importantly, they reared us up with respect for the basic tenets of Christianity, with stress on the value of education and the values nurtured through several millennia of Judeo-Christian Tradition. My forebears, born into poverty, worked and sang through it without question, without complaint, and without loss of dignity. Rather , their dignity derived from the physical circumstances in which they found themselves and their response to those circumstances.
God Bless them, God Bless them all, God Bless them good!
Would that we had them with us now. Their example stands as a salient indictment of the Pharisees and Philistines presently in control.
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)