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From: RJT & EMT
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:36 PM
To: mike@marriagesavers.org
Subject: Invisible Infants
Dear Mr. McManus:
I have always been against abortion. I am 75 years
old and when I had children, there were no fancy
machines to tell whether the child I was carrying
was male or female. Now, mothers carry around
pictures of their babies in the womb at very early
weeks of their pregnancy. I would think these
ultrasounds would make pro-abortionists think twice
when these pictures are obvious signs of LIFE!
When I thought of abortion, I thought of the tiny
baby who would not live, of the consequences the
mother of this child possibly would suffer later in
her life when she would think about this child and
how old he or she would have been and if she would
have regrets.
But I never thought of all the other “practical
consequences” that are in your article about
Invisible Infants. It all
made so much sense to me. It’s like the ripple
effect of throwing a rock into a pond. Like me, I am
sure there are a lot of people out there who never
thought about these practical consequences.
So I emailed your article to
about a dozen of my friends who feel as I do. Then I
went to a beauty salon and was telling my beautician
about these things, knowing she was against abortion
too. (However, in cases of rape, she is not against
it.) She was astounded as I was, but then just as
quickly she responded: “Well, you know, we could
kind of turn that around and look at it another
way.” She said since so many babies would be born to
unwed mothers or families that cannot afford another
mouth to feed, how many more families would be on
welfare, how many of these un-aborted would be
unemployed, unable to find jobs, homeless, on
unemployment, and on and on.
I was taken aback when she took that view and I felt
that realistically there would be some who might be
on welfare and unemployed, but not enough to offset
the figures set forth in your article. Remarks like
that cannot make me feel differently about abortion,
but it upset me that someone could turn things
around like that. I think what also upset me is that
I could not think fast enough to respond to her – I
just couldn’t think that fast to come up with a
reply.
Your article is so mind-boggling, I think these kind
of facts should be brought to public attention – I
don’t know exactly the means by which it could be
done, or if there would be laws preventing it, but I
even thought about copies of the article and the
documentation that backs it up being available in
churches and possibly in doctors offices.
Keep up the good work – E |