UN-CATHOLIC JOE BIDEN WASTES NO TIME SETTING OUT TO TAKE LIFE AWAY FROM THE UNBORN.
“And I will give you mercy, and he shall have mercy on you, ” Jeremiah 42:12
PERSPECTIVE:
In order for Pharaoh and Hitler to achieve their goals, they had to first convince the population that a Hebrew/Jew was not a human life.
ABORTION --
Perhaps no other topic triggers as strong emotions and divides us in a greater way than the issue of abortion. The Left and the Right start with a fundamental disagreement over the basic question of when life begins:
WHAT IS THIS?
What do you see in this picture?
I see a life in a womb filled with all the potential to be an independent human being. How about you?
As I see it, the real question is:
WHEN DOES THIS LIFE BECOME WORTHY OF ANY PROTECTION AT ALL?
Clearly we have laws to protect a baby from the mother. We manage to balance rights between parties all the time in a justice system. But the Left denies the unborn this right by simply denying them any claim to life!
But rather than trying to answer the question of when life begins, I offer the following context to help one consider this question.
Womb in hebrew is Rachamim. (The sound “cha” in “ra-cha-mim” is pronounced like the Spanish “ja” in the word “Jalapeño.”)
“Ra-cha-min” is a noun, but it can also be used as a verb, as it often happens in prayer. When it is a verb, we say: “ra-chem” for “have mercy.”
It is amazing that the emotion “mercy” or “compassion,” “ra-cha-min,” is derived from the name of the most motherly organ in the human body: the womb, “re-chem.”
The womb is where the strongest motherly connection of compassion between the mother and the baby are first developed.
The English language recognizes that every WOMan has the divine gift of compassion, not only mothers.
In the English language we have three "tenses" - past, present and future. The Hebrew language has one more called the "imperative." It is the form of "requesting something from others." The imperative tense of the hebrew word “Ra-chem” means to give or have mercy.
I believe the we can find a solution to the debate on abortion. I truly believe there is a way to respect and show mercy to both mother and the unborn.
To find a solution we need to "come together." We need to make "mutual concessions." The word for that is "compromise." Surely we all have enough rachem to find a compromise.
What I personally find most disconcerting is the attitude that pro-Abortion people take towards pro-Life people. The desire to protect the unborn, which is just as likely to be a girl as a boy, is at least as noble a cause as the pro-Abortion cause. Perhaps if we all accepted that premise of each others cause we could begin to find the basis for a compromise.
