Tell Me Again...

How "No One Is Pro-Abortion"!

Because some people clearly are (H/T: Southern Appeal):

... a corps of women trying to whittle down the current high rates — estimated at 80 percent — of women who abort at-risk children.

They range from Monica Rafie, a Chicago-area mom of five who in 2001 was told her second child, Celine, would likely die of an underdeveloped right heart ventricle, to Anna Lise "Cubby" LaHood, a Silver Spring woman who learned in the spring of 1988 that her unborn son, Francis, would only live briefly outside the womb.

Both women were encouraged to terminate their pregnancies but refused.

Cubby and husband Dan LaHood decided that while their son may die, it would not be at their hands. Reaction was swift; her family disinherited Mrs. LaHood and refused to see the child. The couple transferred their care to Georgetown University Hospital, a Catholic institution that encouraged her to continue her pregnancy.

"The pressure from the medical community to abort was severe," she said.

On Oct. 6, 1988, Francis was born with polycystic kidney disease. He was held by his parents, quickly photographed and baptized before he died a few minutes later.

Today, the LaHoods are lay Missionaries of Charity, the group founded by Mother Teresa, whose photos decorate the walls of their Silver Spring home. On a small $100,000 annual budget, they operate St. Joseph's House, which provides respite and day care for children with severe disabilities.

"People think your life is over when you have a handicapped child," Mr. LaHood says. "It's a cultural view to eliminate them as undesirable. They don't know what the demands are and what the rewards are."

At the risk of transgressing Godwin's Law, people like the LaHoods are fighting against a culture of death ("life unworthy of life") that the Nazis would have applauded.

And what about Cubby LaHood's parents, who so insisted on an abortion for their adult, married daughter that they disowned her when she refused? This is the true meaning of "choice". Because the only valid "choice" is for abortion. We see it again and again: it's all about the killing. For important reasons like severe disability, for trivial reasons like eye color or pregnancy out of wedlock, and even for no reason at all.

Tell me again, go ahead say it. "No one is pro-abortion." Lie to me.