The CHOICE that is so heinous and unthinkable, yet untouchable and acceptable
Carol | December 30, 2010
CAESAR’S THUMB
Lord Nicholas Windsor [Great-grandson of King George V of the United Kingdom] warns Europeans not to forget their most pressing moral issue: abortion.
http://www.faqs.org/periodicals/201012/2197491621.html
“…Is it still possible then that we can point to anything of any real significance that had been overlooked, anything dangerous smuggled into this new phase of history that has caught us unawares? I would say that this is indeed the case, and I would like to focus especially on a matter and a practice that constitutes the single most grievous moral deficit in contemporary life: the abortion of our unborn children.”
“This is a historically unprecedented cascade of destruction wrought on individuals: on sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, future spouses and friends, mothers and fathers – destroyed in the form of those to whom we owe, quite simply and certainly, the greatest solidarity and duty of care because they are the weakest and most dependent of our fellow humans…”“…And this enforcement of a new status quo succeeds so well due, surely, to benefits enjoyed as a result – benefits of an order that make acceptable even the killing of innocents, by their protectors, on a scale that freezes the imagination…”
“In the second order of consequences, however, we must look closely at the hidden burden faced by those, especially mothers, who participate in these acts and the losses affecting present and future society…”
“…What we must first lament is the mass destruction of human beings who had first been deemed worthless…”
Brilliant essay.