Someday, abortion will be relegated to the past
RE: THE WOMEN’S March As with the deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger, I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard on the radio news the chilling announcement that the Supreme Court upheld the decision of Roe v. Wade, which made abortion on demand “the law of the land.”
I have been pro-life for all of my adult life. I have served at different levels of commitment in the pro-life community and have financially and prayerfully supported the cause.
During my involvement with pro-life activities or just casual conversations on the subject, I have frequently had the unnerving sensation of astonishment that it is actually necessary to tell women it is wrong to kill your children. It has often left me almost speechless.
I did vote in the last presidential election, but I did not vote for President Donald Trump or for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Saturday, watching so many news reports of thousands of women marching to defend their rights, I was struck by many young girls — teenage and younger — who were present with their mothers. I wonder how these girls will feel when they realize, “What if I was that ‘inconvenient pregnancy’; that ‘mistake’; that ‘burden’; that ‘accident’ or to paraphrase President Obama that ‘punishment’.” It has to be a frightening concept, and eerie revelation as to their own apparent worth in the sight of their mothers.
I believe that like many evils in our history, such as slavery, segregation and the Holocaust, legalized abortion will become another chapter in a dark past. We will one day be a people who recognize the evil that it is and be incredulous that it was ever acceptable much less promoted as a good.
It may not happen in my lifetime (I pray that it does), but it will happen. The good people of this land will stand up by the many thousands, as they did Saturday and demand the end to the slaughter of the innocents.
That day cannot come too soon. ELIZABETH KNIPFING ROYER Albuquerque