Lets Seriously Get A Grip

Before we slide off the Cliff

I was in Starbucks today with my new favorite toy; Verizon wireless (it's a trap for the warrantless wireless wiretap NSA folks). I was sitting at a table and I couldn't help but overhear a very attractive young woman, probably in her mid-20s, talking to her other very attractive young woman friend about her recent divorce and abortion. She was so discrete about it anyone in Starbucks earshot now knows the price of her abortion. Abortions are, by the way, I was shocked to learn far less expensive than a root canal. It costs less to dispose of the fruit of your womb than it does to clean out the roots of a bad tooth and cap it. Oh- and her insurance covered much of it.
I wouldn't say that she was glib, so much as non-challant. It was a medical procedure, involved some medications she detailed, and had less emotional consequence it seemed than getting rid of the creep that was her x-husband. I wanted to say- I just had a root canal, you just killed your first born (before it saw daylight). Hello? Anyone home under that cute Anne Klein $200. sundress? You had a living, growing, human DNA coded being inside you and
you -what-checked your insurance policy to see how much out of pocket it would cost you to rip
it from the walls of your motherhood? Care for another VanillaMochaCarmelMachiatto?
-And where do you think that you sent that creature that was ripped from the walls of your motherhood?
I don't know what we are going to do to make people realize what they are doing. I don't know if sending all the "I used to be a hip slut like you and now I am a born-again chaste virgin and still georgeous" spokespeople to campuses, Focus on the Family and EWTN shows is going to wake people up.
Federally funding mandatory ultrasounds is a good start. You could set them up in church basements or in the Gabriel Project clinics. Why doesn't every church have one? Why doesn't every McDonald's have one? Buy a happy meal and get a free ultra-sound. That thing-yeah, with tiny fingers, toes and eyelids-that's what your "procedure" just killed. If an ultra-sound saves just one life it is worth more than the price of the fanciest organ.

Tomorrow, September 5, at 5:30 pm at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC is a Mass in honor of the tenth anniversary of the passing of Mother Theresa. Invite anyone you see at Starbucks tomorrow. You never know what life you may save.

I appeal to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of (all) the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies – presenting all your members and faculties – as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.: (Romans 12:1)