Abortion Is Not Health Care
September 17, 2024 at 4:10 p.m.
Editor, Times-Union:
It was with intense concern for the moral fiber of our nation that I listened to the recent presidential debate. Among a great many issues that were dealt with was that of abortion. I listened with something near horror as I heard one candidate call abortion “health care!”
Health care? Have you ever seen a picture of what is in the garbage bin of an abortion clinic at the end of one of their days? It’s a grotesque scene of the gnarled, mutilated, mangled remains of babies who have been dismembered. Tangled arms and legs and heads lie in a pool of their own blood. My friends, if we can actually call that “health care” and mean it, we are deluded beyond measure. If that is health care, we are on the cusp of barbarism.
One of the candidates also proclaimed proudly that “the government will not be granted the right to tell women what to do with their own bodies.” Women are to be sovereign over their own bodies. Actually, I agree. Women should be sovereign over their own bodies without question, but when I look at the garbage bin of mangled infant corpses, I don’t see a woman’s body anywhere in the picture! There are no woman’s arms or legs or hands there. Those are somebody else’s bodies and they have perished - died - been killed without any kind of choice. They are the most innocent and defenseless forms of human life to be found. They are gone. They are dead. They will never experience a single day of autonomous life - never see the light of a single sunrise - never deal with the joys and sorrows of being alive - never make a choice of their own. They are gone. Their lives are over. There’s no going back.
It is a heinous and irretrievable loss over which they have nothing to say. Someone else has made the choice over their life and death, and that, my friends, is a perilous precipice of sheer danger, and anyone who carries any sense that human life is precious or sacred or inviolable had better be lifting our voices in protest as we loudly and clearly as we possible can.
James A. Gilmer
Pastor of Shalom Fellowship
Bourbon
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Editor, Times-Union:
It was with intense concern for the moral fiber of our nation that I listened to the recent presidential debate. Among a great many issues that were dealt with was that of abortion. I listened with something near horror as I heard one candidate call abortion “health care!”
Health care? Have you ever seen a picture of what is in the garbage bin of an abortion clinic at the end of one of their days? It’s a grotesque scene of the gnarled, mutilated, mangled remains of babies who have been dismembered. Tangled arms and legs and heads lie in a pool of their own blood. My friends, if we can actually call that “health care” and mean it, we are deluded beyond measure. If that is health care, we are on the cusp of barbarism.
One of the candidates also proclaimed proudly that “the government will not be granted the right to tell women what to do with their own bodies.” Women are to be sovereign over their own bodies. Actually, I agree. Women should be sovereign over their own bodies without question, but when I look at the garbage bin of mangled infant corpses, I don’t see a woman’s body anywhere in the picture! There are no woman’s arms or legs or hands there. Those are somebody else’s bodies and they have perished - died - been killed without any kind of choice. They are the most innocent and defenseless forms of human life to be found. They are gone. They are dead. They will never experience a single day of autonomous life - never see the light of a single sunrise - never deal with the joys and sorrows of being alive - never make a choice of their own. They are gone. Their lives are over. There’s no going back.
It is a heinous and irretrievable loss over which they have nothing to say. Someone else has made the choice over their life and death, and that, my friends, is a perilous precipice of sheer danger, and anyone who carries any sense that human life is precious or sacred or inviolable had better be lifting our voices in protest as we loudly and clearly as we possible can.
James A. Gilmer
Pastor of Shalom Fellowship
Bourbon