Abortion robs us all

Dr. Bernard Nathanson spearheaded the effort to legalize abortion in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. He oversaw an abortion clinic in New York city, and during his leadership 60,000 abortions were performed at that clinic. Nathanson also performed abortions himself, including the abortion of one of his own children.

In 1979 he wrote the book "Aborting America" wherein he describes his experience in helping legalize abortion and his growing unease with abortion. Nathanson criticizes both pro-and anti-abortion arguments in his book; yet in the years after 1979 he came to recognize the humanity of the unborn, especially through the technology of "scans" (also called ultrasounds) for viewing the baby within the womb. Nathanson videotaped an abortion from within the womb and recalls that "I, though I had not done an abortion in five years, was shaken to the very roots of my soul by what I saw. The tapes were amazing." Nathanson is now a strong pro-life leader and regrets his involvement in the abortion cause.

We are all robbed through abortion: women are robbed of their health, fathers are robbed of their children, children are robbed of their siblings, and society is robbed of tremendous potential. Celine Dion is the last of 14 children. When her mother learned she was pregnant, she was upset-14 is a lot of children! Mrs. Dion spoke to her priest, who advised her not to "go against nature". "I owe my life to that priest" says the superstar singer. We too owe that priest a debt of gratitude; how much poorer we would be without Celine Dion’s beautiful singing voice. Similar circumstances surround the birth of Ludwig Van Beethoven, the great European composer of the 18th and 19th centuries. His father had syphillis and his mother had tuberculosis. They had four children already; one was blind, another was deaf and could not speak, a third had tuberculosis, and the fourth had a deformity. Should the mother have aborted the child she carried in her womb? If she had, we would all have been robbed of Beethoven’s stunningly powerful music.

Mothers, children, and ALL the rest of us deserve better than abortion. May Swaziland say no to the thief called abortion. May Swaziland build a culture of love and life.

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