Glad to hear it!

Kansas Secretary of Administration Dennis Taylor, left, and Secretary of State Kris Kobach, right, attend Kansas court proceedings, regarding state regulations for abortion clinics, on June 30, 2011.
John Hanna/AP

As you can see on my sidebar, I enjoy The Pioneer Woman blog. Her blog is part of the BlogHer network.  Today out of boredom, I decided to surf on over there to see what else was posted.  To my great surprise, I found this article posted there : How Hard Is It to Obtain an Abortion? Try Really Hard! by Mona Gable. (Warning- her article will link you to another more extensive one, but I wanted to give you the info!  You get a two-fer! ha.)  It gave me great hope.  I'm Catholic and pro-life, and yes, I think those two are unequivocally linked.  To see someone from the other side lamenting the difficulty that exists in finding an abortion, makes me just want to say many great prayers of thanksgiving!  Hopefully, this means that the efforts to shutdown this travesty are starting to take effect.  It pains me to know how many countless children have never come into this world due to the legalization of abortion. As a mom who has mourned the loss of children (albeit in utero), I am saddened that at some time in their life, many women who have been through an abortion will experience those same feelings, even though the political machine says that they won't and shouldn't have feelings for their unborn children!  They must feel like they've blindsided to suddenly have these feelings start to come forth when they've been told all along that the "product of abortion" was not even human.  How can one mourn the loss of meaningless cells?  How indeed.

Sometimes I think that our culture can make it hard for moms like us to truly grieve b/c they want so desperately to deny the humanity of the babies that we lose. If society acknowledges those little lives, they'd have to admit that there are other parts of our society that are gravely wrong. (*cough* abortion *cough*)  It's such a disservice! I think the culture has made it much harder for us to grieve and feel entitled to that grief.  And, it allows us to, in effect, "double down" on those thoughts and deny the dignity of persons that we feel are in the way or difficult to include.

I am ever hopeful that through prayer and education, we can slowly turn the tide.  Al Gore may compare those who deny global warming to racists,  but I think the real comparison lies between the pro-abortion camp, who denies the humanity of our most innocent victims, and those who deny humanity based on race.  To me there is no difference.  I hope someday that history will show that we corrected this great wrong!  (And further, I hope that this occurs in the near future rather than some time way off.)

**For those who are suffering after an abortion, please seek help at your local Project Rachel chapter, or go to the national Project Rachel website.**