Abortion is the attempt to destroy and to remake human nature in our own image, instead of God’s image. It is based on the right of individual choice and the freedom of self-creation. We see ourselves as the definers of our own truth, our own counterfeit reality, and thus commit idolatry.
The root of sin is to reject the truth. For more than 49 years, our society has colluded in a lie and has chosen to live in the darkness and the bondage of deadly falsehood.
It is outrageous to seek the license to kill the innocent unborn for mere political advantage. It is shameful that with the legalization of abortion, the unborn baby must die for the benefit of gaining and retaining constituents for the temporal purpose of harnessing political power.
Those who actively promote abortion need to be reminded of what our Lord Jesus said: “What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his immortal soul?” (Mt 16:26)
All Catholics, clergy as well as laity, must stand strong and united in this most consequential fight against such deceitful human sacrifice. The intrinsic evil of the wholesale slaughter of the innocent cries out for justice.
Michael Coyle lives in Charlotte.