Abortion pill a step backwards

Dear editor: People today can willfully strangle their capacity to experience anguish or grief. Dealing only with surface reality, at the price of displacing mystery, many are now lost in a cosmos of secular, rationalistic preoccupations.

The next step is to play God on who lives and who dies and in this tribunal expel violently from this world the disposable unborn.

Driven by such poor manners, the widely popular payment of $300 for the abortion pill, by the B.C. government, is hailed as major progress on the abortion solution.

What I regret mostly is how unbelievably deep our politics is messing up the noble task of building a society whose priority should honour the splendour of human existence.

Is there anyone in leadership saying, “Lets be cautious here and calculate what we are saying to the rising generation”? Are they putting forward a conviction that “love of neighbour” is no longer to be counted in the major choices involving life or death?

Without this honour for each other are we not dealing with the full and total degradation of human existence?

Whatever happened to the search for truth, especially regarding what it is to be a person? Are we to deprive young people of the encouragement that leads to great choices at the cost of personal ambition?

Chastity has its roots in chastise and the virtue offers the inner strength to purify sexual desire from aggression and selfishness.

Another virtue, temperance, is the right ordering of sexual life, not merely a negation.

Lust is akin to a craving for salt in a person dying of thirst. Purity is the most mysterious of all the virtues and the least recognized in today's world. True love means sacrifice for the good of the other.

No doubt, this free abortion pill will add considerably to the line up of corpses floating down the river of life.

Meanwhile the atheists cannot forgive God for not existing and the agnostics, who once held a tenable and helpful position in the search for truth, have joined the tribunal of the media. Fr. Harry Clarke Kelowna