Be Our Guest / Monica Siefker

Soul of America has been torn apart by evil of abortion, reader says

In an Oct. 19 letter to the editor in The Criterion, a grievance was made about how, in the perception of the letter writer, those who publicly protest abortion are pro-birth and not pro-life. The writer assumes that those who stand outside of an abortion center to pray or offer help to women in crises do not care about born human beings because they do not support the policies of the Democratic Party.

There is much to counter in the accusations the letter writer sets forth, but because of space constraints, let’s stick to the most important fact and the heart of the matter, which is this: every single day, more than 3,000 unborn children are killed by an abortion in the U.S., making it the single greatest cause of death.

Every single year, abortion kills as many Americans as have been killed on all the battlefields in all of the wars in U.S. history combined.  Since Roe v. Wade became law in 1973, more than 53 million babies have been slaughtered.  Approximately 52 percent of all African‑American pregnancies end in abortion.

And it’s not just the unborn who are victims. The mothers, fathers, grandparents, and siblings of the aborted victims suffer greatly as well.

In fact, the very soul of America has been torn asunder from this evil, and the extended culture of death and violence that we see played out daily in the headlines is a direct result from what quietly goes on in the sanitized rooms of the local Planned Parenthood clinic.

The issue of abortion is the number one issue that must be dealt with and ended. If a political party is seeking to do all it can to keep the direct killing of unborn children legal, then, objectively, we must seriously question any claim that that party has the moral capability and integrity to craft policies that will ultimately help born human beings.

I encourage the letter writer to stop by sometime to pray and work with pro-lifers gathered outside of abortion facilities. We could use their help in this battle for life. 

I’ll bet afterward, you can also join them at the local soup kitchen, homeless shelter or other places of ministry.

(Monica Siefker is a member of St. John the Apostle Parish in Bloomington.) †