Trip to Washington supports an immoral cause
Eric Glass
Class of 2000
Sometimes you hear that there are terrible problems in Catholic higher education, but then you read about something like the women from across the road who were flown to Washington, D.C. to support the brutal and gruesome destruction of innocent unborn children.
How marvelous that the pro-life girls had to take an unexcused absence from class and pay their own bus fares while the abortion advocates were flown — was it first-class? It is marvelous too that they managed to come up with such clever, original arguments: "A woman has a right to choose what to do with her own body."
I agree that a woman has the right to do what she pleases with her own body. Women can set themselves on fire, go on a cranberries-and-pickles diet or get pentagrams tattooed on their eyeballs for all I care, and it really would not surprise me.
But somehow it seems to me abortion is about more than a woman and her own body. Perhaps it was a design flaw by God to have us spend the first nine months of our lives inside someone else, someone who may be just itching to have us killed in a most barbaric way. Abortions are not performed via carbon monoxide poisoning, in case you were not aware.
That unborn children are truly living beings themselves becomes clearer and clearer every day through science and technology. Thanks to those four ladies for taking an expenses-paid plane out to Washington to stand up heroically for the bloody "termination" of unwanted life, in the face of overwhelming evidence that unborn children are alive, so that women may be as promiscuous as they like without having to worry about consequences. Makes you wonder how so many people at Notre Dame come to think the girls across the street are immoral and ignorant.
All Viewpoint Stories for Friday, January 31, 2003
