I was driving to Las Cruces for the weekend, and I was listening to my iPod while driving. I was listening to the BarlowGirl album "Love and War", and the song Tears Fall came on. the following line just jumped out at me
"Oh what have we lost because we chose we’ll never know, And loving You is better than feeling alone, And all our claims to freedom have become these heavy chains, And in the name of rights we keep filling nameless graves. Let the tears fall down, Let them soften this ground, Let our hearts be found, God forgive us now."
All the times I had listened to this song, and I had never realized that it was talking about abortion. As I listened to it again, I realized that the lyrics ring so true, but unfortunately, many will not see it that way. in the 38 years since Roe V. Wade, 52,000,000 lives have been lost to abortion in the US alone... that number doesn't include the abortions that have occurred in the rest of the world. And I really began to think "what have we lost?" What if one of the babies that was aborted was the person who was to find the cure for cancer? Or the next great musical genius? What contributions to our society have been lost, because of the "choice" of a woman to have an abortion? It honestly makes me sad to think of these lives that have been discarded, cast aside as though they were nothing, especially since so many people who cannot have children of their own would have loved to be able to raise one of those babies as their own.
I usually am not one to discuss politics, but this is an issue that I am very passionate about. An unborn life isn't something to be "thrown away", it is something to be treasured. My prayer is that all people will come to have a greater respect for the dignity of life, from the moment of conception on.
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