When choice is more than an abstract

One criticism leveled at pro-life folks is that they want to dictate what women should do without having to suffer the consequences. Sure they say, it is easy to be anti-abortion when you aren't the one facing the tough choices. That criticism is laid to rest in Governor, hopefully soon to be Vice-President, Sarah Palin. She faced a very real crisis in her own life and took the harder road, but the right one, when she was told that her fifth child was likely to have Downs Syndrome. She chose to have and to love that child like any of her other four kids. Her story, politics aside, is a wonderful one.

Upwards of 90% of all pregnancies diagnosed as likely to be Downs babies are terminated. The child is going to require special care and sacrifice all of his or her life, and will never go to Harvard or be captain of the football team or anything else associated with the dreams of parents. Faced with that reality, a huge percentage of couples and women elect abortion. What their motivations are I won't presume to know. I do know that we never elected to have the testing that would indicate Downs Syndrome because it was irrelevant. There were never "options" for us, the only option was carrying the child to term and caring for him or her as best we could.

Her story is captured in several stories but it is summarized very well by Dr. Mohler this Mothers Day before she became the GOP VP nominee. You can read his post here and listen to the show earlier in the year here. The radio show is especially wonderful because of the calls of many parents of Downs children who attest to what a blessing they are.

Look at the picture at the top of the post and think that 90% of children just like Trig Palin are murdered in the womb and never get to be held even once by their mother. If that picture isn't enough to make someone question abortion, then that person has a stony heart indeed. It is time to say enough. Enough profit subsidized by the tax payers at Planned Parenthood. Enough testing of innocent children to see if they are up to snuff and meet their parents requirements to live. Enough hiding behind empty slogans to justify the murder of the innocent. Enough perverting the Constitution to mandate the legalization of genocide.

Too much blood has been spilled on the altar of choice. Enough is more than enough.