On the television this morning I had the misfortune of seeing part of a national morning news program. Now I don't normally watch news programs of any kind because I don't like to be indoctrinated with the propaganda of our modern society. But, just like many people can't help but gawk at the horrific scene of a fatal accident as they drive by it, I couldn't take my eyes off the story on the morning news program.
The story was in regards to a disturbing new non-fiction book about a woman who couldn't have her own children and what she was willing to do in order to have a child. The author of the autobiographical book was on the news program and was being interviewed. As she started telling her story one of the first things she mentioned was how, when she and her husband decided to have children, she went off the birth control pill. Next, they discussed how she went through hormone treatments and other various procedures in order to become pregnant. This resulted in at least one miscarriage of twins. There may have been more but that is all I know about. As if that is not disturbing enough, next comes the very disturbing part.
On the news program with the woman mentioned above was the woman's mother. Due to the fact that the daughter could not carry her children to term the mother offered to be a surrogate. That's right, the mother of the woman on the program is not just the grandmother of the resulting child, but also the birth mother. I told you it is disturbing. So what we have is a woman who did everything possible in order to avoid having children by using contraception who has now done the unthinkable in order to have a child. (And you have to wonder how many of her own children were aborted by her being on the pill.)
It must also be noted that the people from the news program were completely accepting of all of it. There wasn't the least hint that there was anything unnatural in a grandmother giving birth to her own grandson. Instead, they emphasized how wonderful it is that this family who really wanted a child got what they wanted.
But at one point in this country, in the not too distant past, this would have been unthinkable and not just because the medical practices of the time were unable to do it. It would have been unthinkable because most people thought differently than they do now. Children used to be seen as a gift from God. But with the advent of contraception and abortion on demand the thoughts of Americans concerning children have changed. The result is that children today are seen as a commodity that can discarded through abortion if they are not wanted or manufactured in a laboratory if they are wanted. And all of this is done so that people can fulfill their selfish desires whether it be wanting or not wanting a child. And this selfishness is then praised by society - like the news program I unfortunately saw this morning.
So, is there any possible way of reversing how the country now thinks? I don't know. But if we are to have any chance of doing so we must remember that the situation in which we now find ourselves didn't happen overnight. It will be a long process to correct the misunderstandings of our society. But we can make a very clear step forward in the coming elections by voting in a pro-life manner for every single position from the President all the way down to the local mayor. It is time for the people of this country who are still scandalized by things like a grandmother giving birth to her grandson to act. If we don't then there will be many stories that are much more horrific than the one I have just told; things that we right now can't even imagine.
The story was in regards to a disturbing new non-fiction book about a woman who couldn't have her own children and what she was willing to do in order to have a child. The author of the autobiographical book was on the news program and was being interviewed. As she started telling her story one of the first things she mentioned was how, when she and her husband decided to have children, she went off the birth control pill. Next, they discussed how she went through hormone treatments and other various procedures in order to become pregnant. This resulted in at least one miscarriage of twins. There may have been more but that is all I know about. As if that is not disturbing enough, next comes the very disturbing part.
On the news program with the woman mentioned above was the woman's mother. Due to the fact that the daughter could not carry her children to term the mother offered to be a surrogate. That's right, the mother of the woman on the program is not just the grandmother of the resulting child, but also the birth mother. I told you it is disturbing. So what we have is a woman who did everything possible in order to avoid having children by using contraception who has now done the unthinkable in order to have a child. (And you have to wonder how many of her own children were aborted by her being on the pill.)
It must also be noted that the people from the news program were completely accepting of all of it. There wasn't the least hint that there was anything unnatural in a grandmother giving birth to her own grandson. Instead, they emphasized how wonderful it is that this family who really wanted a child got what they wanted.
But at one point in this country, in the not too distant past, this would have been unthinkable and not just because the medical practices of the time were unable to do it. It would have been unthinkable because most people thought differently than they do now. Children used to be seen as a gift from God. But with the advent of contraception and abortion on demand the thoughts of Americans concerning children have changed. The result is that children today are seen as a commodity that can discarded through abortion if they are not wanted or manufactured in a laboratory if they are wanted. And all of this is done so that people can fulfill their selfish desires whether it be wanting or not wanting a child. And this selfishness is then praised by society - like the news program I unfortunately saw this morning.
So, is there any possible way of reversing how the country now thinks? I don't know. But if we are to have any chance of doing so we must remember that the situation in which we now find ourselves didn't happen overnight. It will be a long process to correct the misunderstandings of our society. But we can make a very clear step forward in the coming elections by voting in a pro-life manner for every single position from the President all the way down to the local mayor. It is time for the people of this country who are still scandalized by things like a grandmother giving birth to her grandson to act. If we don't then there will be many stories that are much more horrific than the one I have just told; things that we right now can't even imagine.
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