Friday, March 04, 2005

Just me, ranting again.

Another needless heartbreak comes out of a miracle of life, created through irresponsibility, another moral defeat snatched from an undeserved victorious blessing. Yet again, I ask myself, “What happened to a respect for life?” You know you can count on me to clarify until this is unambiguous.

A Texas man is facing a capital murder charge after his 4-month-pregnant girlfriend convinced him to forcefully step on her stomach in order to kill the unborn twins she was carrying. Authorities believed 16-year-old Erica Basoria had been abused by her boyfriend, 18-year-old Gerardo "Jerry" Flores, indicting him under the Texas Prenatal Protection Act.

This law was passed to protect unborn children in cases where the purpose was to cause a miscarriage through deliberate violence against the mother. The regulation defined the lawful term ‘individual’ as, “a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth.” Praise God for small miracles! Nevertheless, the law included language that makes it irrelevant in either a criminal prosecution or a civil action to the behavior of the unborn child's mother so that the law would not pertain to a woman having an abortion.

Anyone familiar with Heather and me knows that we don’t just believe half-heartedly, we vociferously maintain the uncomplicated mandate: “Thou shall not kill.” God didn’t say, “Don’t kill anybody, as long as they have been born.” He made it clear, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you do unto me.” That is from Colossians 3:17, for sinners like me to read again. Let me be unequivocal. Abortion is the murder of innocent children. Period. That we stand by this principle isn’t news to my family, or to Heather’s family. What is news in all of this?

The manipulative, coldhearted mother of these unborn twins will not be held accountable for her actions. How can two people consciously do something like this and only one of them be prosecuted? This woman overtly attempted to cause a miscarriage. Let me define that: this woman willfully planned the premeditated murder of her two unborn children. Two precious children are dead, and their mom isn’t going to have to answer for it.

I cannot state this as efficiently as could the homicidal maniac who is the mother of these two dead children. In her words, “About two weeks before the miscarriage, I started hitting myself in the stomach. I would do this every day and I would use both of my fists when I did this. I would hit myself 10 or more times.”

Her parents, too, should be held accountable. Basoria’s sworn statement stated that her parents pled with her for more than two weeks to have an abortion. Therefore, they are guilty as well. The “grandparents” didn’t murder the twins. Erica, Mommy Dearest, convinced her boyfriend, the babies’ father, to kill them. Without question, their mother permitted it, appealed to her cooperative partner. She conspired with dad, and thus, he killed their children. Those prospective grandparents wanted their grandchildren dead. Guilty. As a parent myself, this is heart-breaking.

Whatever happened to respect for life? What happened to taking responsibility for one’s actions? It's like this: if you don't want children, if you are a teen and not married, you aren't prepared to be a parent, and you aren't ready for sexual relations, so knock it off already! Abstinence works every single time it is tried. Period. When God becomes weary of our collective iniquity, we are all accountable for tolerating a civilization that has devolved into madness. God help us. This world certainly needs a mountain of divine intercession, and I pray that we get the guidance we need.

By the way, Mom, Dad... and God, thanks for giving me life!