The Forgotten Child

Woman was made for love.   The first woman was created by God to be a helper for the first man God created. Through the ages one woman and one man would unite as one through the union created by God we now call marriage. The very being of a woman was to help her husband in accomplishing his tasks of providing a home, food and the necessary provisions for making their lives together fruitful. She accomplished this through a deep-seated love that is the very nature of a woman.  When a child was born to them, the woman nurtured and looked after their child with a special love that only a woman can provide. She would protect her child with every fiber of her being. The husband would provide the overall safety for his family with a devotion and commitment that is part of a man's nature.

Such a family as described above is in conformity with God's plan. But through time men and women demonstrated their frailties and always following God's plan became difficult. Such was the condition of weakness men and women inherited from the disobedience to God of their original parents. But with God's promised help and assistance through His grace many married couples were able to raise families that benefited from the wife and the husband carrying out their natural inclinations of love instilled by the Creator.

However, the history of mankind is replete with instances of disobedience of men and women refusing to adhere to the natural love instincts instilled in them. One of the most abhorrent failings in both men and women is to not provide the love that is needed to bring a child given them by God to full maturity and personhood. There are many reasons given for the very destruction of a child by a husband and wife through abortion or infanticide.

In ancient civilizations, if parents did not want a newborn child, particularly a female child,  the child would be left out in the open on some abandoned spot, with no clothing, no care and no sustenance, with the intention of allowing the child to die through exposure.  This kind of infanticide, by first allowing the child to come to full term in the womb of the mother, was chosen so that sex selection could be used to save or dispose of the child.  Terminating the life of the child in the womb, or abortion, was certainly used but was undoubtedly so crude that the risk to the life of the mother had to be considered.

In our modern times of the late 20th and early 21st centuries infanticide is rare in comparison to abortion because of the various techniques used to terminate the life of the child in the womb with little risk to the life of the mother.  So abortion, all over the world, is relatively common. In the last 40 years, more than 55 million abortions have taken place in the United States.

Abortion is evil because it terminates the life of a child within the womb any time during the 9 months of pregnancy of a woman.  Among evils in this world it stands as the number one evil because of the taking of the child's life through the absolute disregard for the natural inclination of a woman to love and nurture her child. The child becomes a forgotten child and the consequences to not only the woman, the abortionist and the man who fathered the child, but to the whole of society is grievous;  although these consequences are largely not recognized, acknowledged nor discussed.

It is my intention, in future posts, to endeavor to foster a discussion about this evil without judging those persons involved in the process of abortion.  There are many aspects of the abortion problem that need to be open to discussion before better understanding can lead to a remedy of this serious societal tragedy.