Posted on 01/05/2020 1:45:37 PM PST by Morgana
Katriana Ciccotto, a young post-abortive woman, recently shared her abortion story on Channel 5 News in the UK in an attempt to end the stigma surrounding abortion. She argued that because one in three women in the UK has had an abortion, the shame of abortion needs to end. But the number of times a moral wrong is committed does not suddenly make it a moral right.
In the interview, Ciccotto explained that she was using birth control when she became pregnant, as is the case with most unplanned pregnancies. As previously reported by Live Action News, a survey by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service found that 51.2 percent of abortion patients were using at least one type of contraception when they became pregnant.
After learning she was pregnant, Ciccotto explained that she told the nurse she couldn’t have a baby. “And my exact words were, ‘I am in no financial or emotional position to have a child.’ But most importantly, and I feel OK saying this now, is that I didn’t want to have a child. It’s as simple as that, I didn’t want to have a child.”
Whether a child is considered wanted or not doesn’t change his or her inherent value. Every human being, from the moment to fertilization, is a unique individual with his or her own right to life. A human being’s life should never be taken away because one person has labeled him or her unlovable or unwanted.
There were many options in front of Ciccotto at that moment, but rather than offer much-needed financial or emotional support or the option of placing her baby for adoption, the nurse gave her a phone number to call for an abortion. Ciccotto was eventually connected with Marie Stopes International — essentially Europe’s Planned Parenthood. She booked an appointment for an abortion and questioned if she should tell her parents or her friends, or even her baby’s father.
“I had booked my procedure and there was a two-week period – an interim – between when I made the first initial phone call and the procedure. And the first two days of that period were the darkest. I was by myself, I didn’t tell anyone. My mom was on holiday at the time and I couldn’t burden her with that. I couldn’t call her whilst she was on holiday and tell her that I was pregnant,” she said.
For Ciccotto to feel that she would be burdening her loved ones with the news of her pregnancy points to a large problem in society today. It’s the notion that we have the potential to be a ‘burden’ to those who love us. (Sometimes this societal attitude leads to depression, suicide, and even the legalization of euthanasia.) Ciccotto should have looked for support in the people who love her but instead she hid her pregnancy as something to be ashamed of. When she finally told her mother, three days before her abortion, she was crying, and her mother told her that she had an abortion herself at about the same age. But even with her mother’s support, she felt shame. That shame wasn’t coming from her mother, or anyone else. It was coming from inside herself.
“I felt like I was a monster,” she explained. “I felt like I was the worst, most guilty person in the world and I tried to suppress this and go to work as normal.” Then, after learning that one in three women in England has had an abortion, she looked around the cafe she was in and thought, “I can’t be the only monster in here.”
Yet, the frequency of an immoral act doesn’t make the act moral. It doesn’t remove the immorality of its nature. It doesn’t matter how many rapes occur — rape is still morally wrong. It doesn’t matter how many people are victims of abuse; abuse is still wrong. Lying, stealing, and killing are all wrong no matter how many people commit them. Ciccotto called herself a monster despite her rationalization that abortion was the right thing to do. It wasn’t. It never is.
Women who become pregnant and don’t want to raise children don’t have to be mothers. But they don’t have to have their preborn babies killed to accomplish this. They can choose adoptive families for their children. For every one newborn placed for adoption, 36 couples are waiting to adopt. Women today get to hand pick the people who will raise their babies. And they can also choose whether or not to be a part of their children’s lives through the option of open adoption. What they don’t have to choose is death for their child, simply because they don’t want her.
Women have killed their babies worldwide at the rate of like 1.5 billion. A whole lot more than have been killed in all the wars and all the infectious diseases combined.
It’s still not normal.
It is against natural law.
> But the number of times a moral wrong is committed does not suddenly make it a moral right. <
That truism can also be applied to slavery. It is a real pity that the pro-choice folks can’t see the similarity between these two statements:
The slave is my property. I can do as I wish.
It is my body. I can do as I wish.
In Leviticus, God made this promise:3If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
4I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
5Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
6And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.
7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
9I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you. 10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
We simply do not obey His commandments, and we wonder why all this evil befalls us. The consquences are given in the same chapter starting in verse 14: But if you do not obey ME.......
Meanwhile, back in the USofA, someone should ask Pelosi “Nancy? As a Catholic, why do you vote pro-abortion? Do you hate babies more than you love God?”
Your most Noble Nullness. Who can this “someone” be? Can you suggest a person? The void abhors a vacuum.
Are you available?
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