Under a tree, in a cemetery, I heard a young lady share of how she was literally forced to have a legal abortion. Her child wasn't given a choice, and neither was she. For her child, there was no funeral, no memorial. Had there been a gravesite with a tombstone, the epitaph would only have the date of death, for her child had never been born.
Her child did not have a memorial, but a few yards away was an indistinct tombstone in Odd Fellows Cemetery in East Los Angeles. That tombstone says that 17,000 people are buried there, but the official count is 16,433. In the eulogy that President Ronald Reagan wrote for the funeral of the 16,433 unborn Americans, he
Her child did not have a memorial, but a few yards away was an indistinct tombstone in Odd Fellows Cemetery in East Los Angeles. That tombstone says that 17,000 people are buried there, but the official count is 16,433. In the eulogy that President Ronald Reagan wrote for the funeral of the 16,433 unborn Americans, he
"recalled President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, saying, 'Just as the
terrible toll of Gettysburg can be traced to a tragic decision of a divided
Supreme Court, here also the deaths can be mourned. Once again, a whole
category of human beings has been ruled outside the protection of the law by a
court ruling, which passed with our deepest moral convictions. Like you, I am
convinced that these decisions cannot long endure." *
The decision that Ronald Reagan was referring to was the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade. In 2011, at least three celebrations in New York City marked the endurance of this decision. At Expectant Mother Care, we see compassionate education help women to make a more informed decision than the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices made in 1973.
*Linda Rapattoni, United Press International, The Modesto Bee, Monday, October 7, 1985 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948&dat=19851007&id=tikuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5NQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4349,4405546
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