Complacency

Sometimes not knowing is easier than knowing. We like to place the more difficult issues of our time out of sight and out of mind. We believe that there is nothing we can do, and as long as the issue is not affecting us directly, its easier to just not think about it, to just go on living our comfortable lives.

I have heard that during the Holocaust, those living near concentration camps did not always realize what was going on. After the war, the people were marched through the camps and shown what was going on under their noses. Today a new sort of Holocaust is going on right under our noses. I am speaking of abortion.

Many may think that the cause against abortion is simply an overblown cause of self-righteous people inflicting their belief system on the rest of the world. It is much more than this. Others may think “So what, this is an old issue, it’s been around for years.” All the more disturbing then it should be.

People like to sugar-coat the issue of abortion, using terminology that people are less sensitive to. Those in favor of abortion like to describe it as “terminating a pregnancy.” What does it mean to terminate? It means to end. What is a pregnancy? It’s the development of young life within the womb. So to “terminate a pregnancy” is to end the development of young life within the womb. How do you end the development of life? By killing it. So even these larger, less emotionally-charged words are saying the same thing that pro-life advocates cry out. Abortion is killing. Advocates of abortion wish to de-emphasize or flat out deny the humanity of the child developing in the womb. They refer to the child as a fetus. What is a fetus? According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the word fetus refers to unborn young. The unborn young of a human could not possibly be anything else but human, so abortion is clearing killing human life.

We live in a society that fights for the right of a woman to kill her unborn child. The United States may pass the Freedom of Choice Act, which, among other things, will force all hospitals to perform abortions, that is, to kill unborn children. The abortion clinics are, and perhaps soon, the hospitals will be, the concentration camps of today’s holocaust. The cars carrying pregnant women to these clinics are today’s trains to Auschwitz. The pregnant women seeking abortions are perhaps like the soldiers, pressured by their situations and by society to commit or cooperate with unspeakable evils.

But we must speak out about these evils. We must reach out with compassion to those who feel pressured to committing them, even to those who have committed them. We must fight to lift the blindness from society. We must shake the world from its apathy, its complacency. In order to do this, those who know the truth must not grow complacent. Yes, this evil has been around for many years now. The longevity of an evil does not reduce the severity of the evil, rather it increases it. Every day more and more innocent children are being slaughtered by abortion before they can even see the light of day. Those who know the truth must not grow lukewarm. They must stay fired up with zeal for truth and justice. They must fight with love to save lives. How will you feel years from now when you are marched through the ruins of your local abortion clinic, your local concentration camp? Will you wish that you had done more?