Friday, March 24, 2006

The American Culture in Perspective: Abortion Rights of Women and Teen-Aged Girls in California


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I was with my husband late last year in December. We were at the chapel of our parish in Manteca for our weekly adoration time ( 7 PM, Sundays). I was struck to see a yellow flyer inside our chapel strategically placed near the guestbook desk . In picture were two beautiful white teen-aged girls. Later, I found out that they died in the middle of an abortion procedure. As I was reading its content, I was shocked, had goose bumps, felt sorry for the girls and for their parents as well. But at the same time I was angry with the legislation here in California. Do you know that teen-aged girls and women of all ages in this state have the legal rights to an abortion the moment they decided to have one? No questions asked, they can go to PLANNED PARENTHOOD for this. However, in California, teen-aged girls cannot buy an aspirin at the pharmacy without having to present a doctor’s prescription. She cannot be given a flu shot without being accompanied by an adult. But she can go have an abortion, kill the baby and do it without her parents' consent and be protected by the law! Imagine the polarities of laws in this state. Yet, they can subject themselves (even as young as 16) to an abortion. At least now they are trying to pass a law to enforce that ONE PARENT must at least be informed before the abortion procedure is done. So imagine how screwed up these young girls could be if they do this several times because they are protected by the law? PLANNED PARENTHOOD (www.plannedparenthood.org), caters to these groups of women and young girls seeking abortion. NO QUESTIONS ASKED, they are taken in with discretion. Oh, such is the irony of life!

There are couples who spend thousands of dollars just to have a baby by in-vitro (test tube) or artifical insemination and there are women who are ready to kill their babies, products of their lusts and passion. This is what the Catholic Church is fighting for: To stop abortion and for those who have done it in the past, there are healing sessions for themavailable at church. Our Catholic Church in Manteca (St. Anthony of Padua) has this out-reach program. Last week, husband and I received a mail, soliciting for donation so this organization could put out billboards on trucks, empty lots and print ads that show graphic pictures of aborted fetus (as young as 14 days old) to give the public an awareness on abortion. I wrote this article because the photo of a dead fetus was so inhuman. It kept blinking in my vision. Just imagine:

If you were the fetus- you were killed before you were even born!

How fair is this to the unborn child? Does the child want to be killed or want to be born? Millions of photos do show- on how these kids hold on to the human touch- in the brink of life and death after an abortion. How could some women be insane and kill their babies?

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Photo source: www.priestforlife.org

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