What We Can Do

The cause of the Culture of Death could be said to be found in false ideas with regard to the human person. The only way to heal our culture is for each of us to undergo an inner transformation. Such a transformation could bring about the social results that lead to caring for the welfare of others.

 Before the 1970s the word abortion brought to the mind of the average person the killing of a baby. After the 70s, today, when many of us think abortion we think women’s rights, the right to choose, the right to privacy, the right to reproductive “health care,” but what about the baby? Today the baby has been removed from the very act of abortion in our minds. This is a false idea.

 Some would like to take this false idea and twist it a bit more and convince us that the abortion is indeed for the baby. Doesn’t the baby have the “right” to be brought into a peaceful world where her family has a 6 figure income. Where he or she will not have to suffer in life? Isn’t it better to prevent a baby’s birth by purchasing her death so that she will be free from suffering? This is a false idea.

Our present culture is full of false ideas that lead to much inhuman brutality. Unfortunately we as a society have chosen to embrace these false ideas to the point where they have become truth to us. And even while our hearts, our souls cry out in rebellion, we go on accepting the next new form of brutality because it makes our lives easier, because it is progress, because it will improve our lives. This too is a false idea. These false ideas have only led us to a lack of respect for the dignity of the human person.

Without an inner transformation toward the embracing of life, our society, our system of government and power threatens to destroy within us our true purpose. Can a mother live out her true purpose knowing that while she chose this child to live, she chose that child to die? Can a child live out his purpose knowing that his mother could as easily have choosen him to die rather than his sibling? Can a entire generation live out it’s purpose knowing that they are the survivors of the abortion of their brothers and sisters? Only through an inner transformation can we come to know and fulfill our true purpose. Only through and inner transformation can we come to the choice of life.