Su-Chin: [protesting in front of the abortion clinic]
All babies want to get borned! All babies want to get borned!
The above quote is from the 2007 movie, Juno, in which an
unmarried 16-year old girl decides to give her unborn child to a childless, married couple.
Spoiler Alert! Su-Chin
is a classmate of Juno, who runs into Su-Chin making her protest in front of the abortion clinic. Juno changes her
mind inside the clinic, and the movie continues on with the baby ultimately being put into the arms of the adoptive mother.
The secular world doesn’t understand this decision, as
evidenced by the summary of the movie’s plot on the IMDb website:
“Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman
makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.”
Notice two key words: Juno is “offbeat” and makes an “unusual”
decision.
The dictionary definition of “offbeat” says a lot about the
secular mentality in the IMDb summary:
adj.: unusual – uncommon – unconventional
noun. Nonconformist
Juno must be offbeat because in the secular society it is a fait accompli that anyone with an unplanned pregnancy would just have an abortion. It goes without saying. This unusual, nonconformist (odd) girl does
the unusual (weird) thing. She has the baby and gives its charge to a married couple.
Zowie, how weird is that?
But the secular society doesn’t understand nor want to
understand the grave morality of bearing every child.
In a way, Su-Chin makes an emotional appeal to fulfill the
golden rule: treat others as you want to be treated. This rule is directly from Jesus Christ, but predates him in the Old Testament and is a most logical tenet for even the most irreligious person.
Because it is so simple, it may seem to apply to only the simplest things: allowing someone to merge in busy traffic or
taking the smaller piece of pizza.
But the simplicity of the rule in no way minimizes its applicability: it is even relevant regards birth of an unplanned baby.
Ask any person, “do you prefer to have been born,” and they
will answer, “Yes.” All babies want to
get borned. (Only the sickest person,
the suicidal, may say they wish they were never born, but that is the very sad exception that thankfully is so rare.)
In fulfillment of the golden rule then, if you prefer to have been born,
then this pregnancy must be allowed to be born too.
Some will say this does not apply to a fetus in a womb, that
this is not yet a person, this entity does not yet have a soul, an abortion is
the removal of cellular material only.
But this is a bogus point because though refutable, it is not a
necessary consideration. The bald,
relevant, irrefutable fact is that whatever one calls the conceived, in 9 months it will be among us: a specific, irreplaceable person with a name and all else that goes with any one of us and in 21 months will gaze at the candles of his first birthday cake. That is THE fact–THE
irrefutable argument that abortion is always wrong, because at the moment of conception a real, irreplaceable, unique person is on his way. And it is only the specific intervention of the abortionist that leads to the future of a bloody mass in a bucket instead
of the person at the birthday party.
It is the lack of an abortion that is common to every person who walks on this earth, and every person is glad to have avoided it. But, the abortionist says, “I am glad to have avoided it, but I will not treat you, future pre-schooler, the same way. The golden rule will not apply to you.”
So, many people ignore reality and support abortion. And as an exception to the golden rule, it is
always a selfish choice—even if for the mother the situation is a great burden. Nonetheless, the selfishness is deep down
understood by those involved, for no one ever says, “I aborted this baby for its own good.” Conversely, they all try to
forget everything that happened and was done.
Unfortunately our government is full of those who apply the
golden rule only when it suits them–people like Nancy Pelosi who with craven selfishness promote abortion, and in her example even add to that the megalomania of describing herself as an “ardent and practicing Catholic,” while stating heresy
that the Church is not clear on the morality of abortion.
The Church cannot be clearer on the morality of abortion as
it always has. But for the irreligious
and anyone else, we do not need to make the theological arguments again. We have the simple fact:
All babies want to get borned!
Thank you, Su-Chin, for that dramatic way of stating the
truth.
