By Molly Kelly
Scene One: Seven babies all born at the same time to one mom...and
the world goes crazy! Both Time and Newsweek featured this
septuplet saga on the covers of their respective magazines! And the gifts
come rolling in: free diapers; free formula; free car (whoops, make that
a van); and even the offer of a free new house! Make no mistake about it,
the whole nation was in labor, and everyone gave a sigh of relief and an
exclamation of joy when those seven precious babies were born healthy!
Scene Two: Seven babies all born to seven different teenage moms,
and all abandoned at birth...and the world goes crazy! Major newspapers
have devoted much space and time to these tragic stories. We read the lurid
details of the one baby who was stuffed in a gym bag; the unbelievable account
of those babies found in trash dumpsters; the sensational reporting of the
baby delivered in a bathroom stall by a girl attending her senior prom,
and how she went back and danced with her date after discarding the baby
in the bathroom trash bin. The nation asks, "What's wrong with teens?"
Scene Three: Seven babies in the wombs of seven different moms and
all of them aborted by licensed physicians at licensed killing centers...and
the world is silent! After all, this is a "RIGHT" of women, defended
by the major media in editorials, slanted stories, and opinion pieces...and
no one is on trial for the destruction of these babies. Why?
Are the septuplets worth more than the seven babies who were abandoned?
Evidently not because the moms of the abandoned babies are on trial in both
real court and in the court of public opinion. No one in his or her right
mind thinks that the teens should have abandoned their newborns, leaving
them half dead or, in the case of some, dead! But how many think that it
would have been okay, and indeed sensible and responsible, if these same
teen moms scheduled their babies to be aborted?
A dead baby is a dead baby no matter how he or she dies, and if the baby
is killed by another human being, it should be considered a moral wrong
and a tragic happening no matter what the circumstances surrounding the
death.
Why was the British au pair brought to trial and convicted for the death
of baby Matthew? Was it because the parents trusted her with their baby
- - and to harm the baby would be wrong? Only Louise Woodward knows for
sure what really happened, but she did admit to shaking the baby and even
the media calls that a WRONG thing to do!
Why isn't abortion considered wrong by everyone? Hadn't the doctors in Iowa
known that there were seven babies in the womb of Bobbi McCaughey? The answer
is yes; they heard the seven little heart beats with special stethoscopes!
The McCaugheys were offered a procedure euphemistically called "fetal
reduction" - - aborting some of the babies. But the parents of the
septuplets told the doctors that God had given them the children to love
and to raise, not to inject poison into their tiny hearts.
Let us not look to the media, the abortion industry, or the medical profession
to help us decide the worth of children. Let us turn instead to the response
of one teenage mother, who in a cold, damp stable in Bethlehem thousands
of years ago, said "yes" to life.
Let us rejoice with the McCaugheys as they welcome seven new precious members
to their family.