Man has a native instinct for justice and a natural sympathy for those deprived of it. Children especially draw our sympathy. A child’s innocence, vulnerability, and inability to comprehend malice renders his suffering unbearable to virtuous adults. Such are thus angered when a child is intentionally harmed or exploited. Such are thus angered by abortion.
We feel something akin to this anger when, in adulthood, we realize abuse was inflicted upon us. Formerly too young to understand the insanity of our experience, we survive to grasp the injustice. How could this evil have been done? How could good have been taken from us?
Then think again of abortion. Total deprivation, painfully inflicted, destroying all human good. A murder in the womb, ending before beginning, loss of independence from the one entrusted with dependence. Hatred, cruelty, final loss.
This writer was once close to a governmental abortion decision. He thought he knew something of evil, but (to take the example which occurred at the time) it was like going from whitecaps on an inland lake to big ocean surf. There was a difference in kind, not just in magnitude. The evil was crushing and terrifying; demons filled the room.
He could sense that demons hate human flesh. Their hatred is violent and consuming. They are specifically enraged that flesh is attached to an intellect—that humans have both material bodies and rational souls, unlike their own spiritual form. They would obliterate human flesh if they could, and they therefore pursue anything which kills it—abortion being but one among their murders. “The father from whom you are is the devil, and the desires of your father is your will to do. He was a murder from the beginning.” Jn. 8:44.
The only protection from this evil is our Lord Jesus Christ, the indwelling of the Holy Ghost sent by the Son, and our Father in heaven, who begot the Son and whose Will the Son followed for our salvation. As messengers of God, the holy angels also watch over and protect us. They do more than we can understand, and we owe them more thanks than we give.
The aborted children had angels in heaven as well, and this writer hopes all involved in these murders repent before death.