“So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God”
Romans 14:12
Abortion is the ignorance of responsibility and the denial of
obligation. Abortion is self-comfort at the expense of fruitfulness,
because all abortions sacrifice responsibility. The abortion of potential
condemns the future. This reality has caused the development of
an entire discipline of science. Ecology and environmental studies,
as these areas of concern are known, build their premises on the
word extinction, meaning “the termination of the potential force
within creation to fulfill itself.”
It is amazing that man, with all his attempts to minimize the
abortion of various species in the animal and plant kingdom by
investing billions of dollars to protect animals, plants, forests, and
the ozone layer, has neglected to prioritize the position of human
beings in the scheme of things. While man fights to protect whales,
owls, trees, and fish, he also battles for the right to terminate human
babies. Perhaps the situation would improve if every doctor who performs
this tragic operation would be reminded before each abortion
that the opportunity to perform this surgery is his only because his
mother did not abort him.
The abortion issue is, therefore, not just a problem of the taking
of a life, though that is the fatal end result. Even more, abortion is
the ignorance and the lack of understanding of the principle of
potential that pervades our world. The majority of those who die
each year are guilty of abortion because they didn’t understand the
basic relevance of the concept of potential to their individual lives.
Abortion is the ignorance of responsibility and the denial of obligation.
