By Judie Brown
Yesterday, we celebrated the feast day of our Guardian Angels. As Catholics, we believe that our Guardian Angel is always with us; that means that we are never really alone. We learned as children that our Guardian Angel is there to provide support in our daily life and to remind us that God is always present.
These beautiful teachings are affirmed by the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which states, “In her liturgy, the Church joins with the angels to adore the thrice-holy God.” She even invokes their assistance during the funeral liturgy by calling on them to “lead [the deceased] into Paradise.” Further, every angel is one of God’s legates, which means that each serves as His messenger.
This is not only consoling but a needed affirmation in a world filled with predators, especially those obsessed with the desire to erase preborn babies at all costs.
This became painfully clear in the media celebrations of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the deadly abortion pill. Planned Parenthood calls the pill “safe and effective” even though we are aware that the pills not only kill babies but have harmed many women as well. The situation is deadly serious. This is why Robert F. Kennedy, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is calling for a “complete review” of it.
According to an Ethics and Public Policy Center study,
The real-world rate of serious adverse events following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as reported on the drug label. Now we also find that its failure rate is significantly higher than reported on the drug label. Altogether, roughly one in seven women who are prescribed a mifepristone abortion experiences a severe adverse event or undergoes a repeated abortion attempt soon afterwards due to the failure of the mifepristone abortion regimen.
An honest society would see such facts as proof positive that those who market these pills are predators. They are absolutely committed to ending the lives of preborn children regardless of how many expectant mothers are harmed in the process. This is literally a chemical war on women, yet most people are silent because, as we have reported over the past many years, abortion business is big business.
We see affirmation of this in an article by a columnist who says that the abortion pill is safe, but she denies or perhaps overlooks the fact that for babies prior to birth it is deadly, pure and simple. Her comments remind me of a woman who has a gun safely stored in her closet but who then takes it out and uses it to shoot her child. That gun is not deadly by itself; it is only deadly when in the hands of a hater, a predator, or the ego-driven “me first” club.
Commentator Michael Cook got it right when he wrote, “By definition, abortion is not reproductive; it is destructive. It’s time for a rebrand. Why not Destructive Rights? Or Unproductive Rights? Or the Right to Terminate Pregnancies? Or the Right to Death? Something blunt and straightforward, not Orwellian Newspeak.”
G.K. Chesterton put a fine point on the difference between angels and predators when he said, “Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.”
In other words, abortion is a lie even if nobody says it is! But we know how this story ends; we know that God will prevail. As the Psalmist reminds us, “Lord, you have been our refuge from age to age.”