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Poverty and Pro-life
By Annabella Salvucci
One of the first excuses I had ever heard for abortion was, "it's okay to kill it if you don't want the baby to be born into poverty." I was probably close to eight years old at the time, and I was talking to my similarly aged cousin. She believed in life at conception, but she still thought that being born into poverty was a good excuse for abortion. My eight-year-old brain knew that this was untrue, but I didn't know how at the time. Over the past seven or so years the question stuck with me: is poverty a good reason for abortion? The short answer is no.
A life is a life is a life, both in my world and in the world of my cousin. Sadly, most pro-choice people don't think of babies in the womb as alive, but that's besides the point. Since a baby is equally as alive as a grown person, killing a baby to "put it out of its misery" (misery being poverty) is practically the equivalent of shooting a homeless man on the street because you feel bad for him. Except abortion is worse, because babies are completely innocent.
What a good person would do to help the homeless man is to find him a home. So if you don't want babies born into poverty, help them by actually helping and not by making it easier to kill them. Killing isn't justified if the reason for the killing is preventable, and this counts towards abortion.
And so, poverty is not an excuse for abortion. Taking a life out of "pity" is still taking a life, and killing a baby so it won't have to be poor is still killing.
Prayer: A New Year's Prayer
O most bountiful God, I sincerely and humbly thank Thee for all Thy many benefits to me during the past year, and for the privilege of beginning a new year. Do Thou mercifully continue Thy gracious help and protection, so that I may spend this year in Thy service, but also may increase from day to day in fervor and in the performance of good works. May all my thoughts, words, and actions be for Thy greater honor and glory, for my own sanctification and for the good souls. These favors I ask from Thy goodness through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who for our salvation first shed His Precious Blood. Amen.
Source: some really old book that I don't know the name of, but the copyright probably expired a hundred years ago at least...
Pro-life Quotes:
"There are over twice as many people on the adoption waiting list than there are people getting an abortion." --Charlie Kirk
“Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.” St. John Paul II
News
Trump Pardons 23 Pro-life Activists
On January 23rd Trump pardoned 23 pro-life activists who had been imprisoned under the FACE Act which was created under the Biden administration to imprison those who attacked abortion clinics. However, most of the people imprisoned under this act were peaceful protesters.
Trump pardoned the pro-life protesters on the 23rd as he had promised to do during his 2024 campaign.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261761/breaking-trump-pardons-23-pro-life-activists
Upcoming Events
Monthly rosary: February 4th at 7:00 p.m EST
Apologetics night: February 11th at 7:00 p.m EST
Group meeting: February 17th at 6:30 p.m EST
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