"If They Weren't Wanted, Keep Quiet."

Today I read a section of the local newspaper that I rarely read due to its content, Dear Abby.  Today, however the title caught my eye, "If They Weren't Wanted, Keep Quiet."  I asked myself, what is this about?

It is about a mother who wants to tell her teenage daughter that her mother did not want for her to be born.  What a horror.  Imagine a mother wanting to tell her child that she was not wanted.  All of the readers who had their comments printed also found this to be shocking.

When one wonders about the cheapness of life and the lack of morality in our society, this article demonstrates what could be a large factor.  The lack of reverence for human life and the failure to accept a child as a gift from God tears and destroys the underlying fabric of society. 

A child can recover from all sorts of difficulties in life, but a horror that would be extremely difficult to overcome without grace, would be to find out that one was not wanted by their mother.

As the great pro-life leader, Joe Scheidler has commented, all of the people born in this country since Roe v. Wade are survivors and they know it.  Each and every person born since that day of infamy, could have been aborted had their parents chosen to commit the heinous act.

I propose that every normal, upright and happy person in our society came from parents who lovingly welcomed them into the world, either as their own child or through adoption.

Of course with God's grace a person born into a troubled home can overcome that handicap, but it is very difficult.  No one born into an unloving or troubled home would wish that for themselves or for anyone else.

The Catholic Church is the institution that truly defends reverence for life.  Marriage in the Catholic Church is a sacrament, which means that a husband and wife living according to the commandments of God in Holy Matrimony receive Sanctifying Grace which passes to their children.

The Church teaches that the primary purpose of marriage is procreation, or bringing children into the world with which to populate heaven.  All Catholics living according to the Church's moral teachings accept children as a blessing from God.  Every child born into such a family, knows that they were wanted.  Those who contracept or abort, selfishly set their own conditions as to when they will accept children from God.  As the child ages and matures he will always wonder if he was really welcomed or if he was just an accident, or a contraceptive failure.

Those of us who were born into a truly loving family, should thank Our Lord and Our Lady each and every day for that.  All of the trials and crosses in life become bearable when one is raised with a well formed soul and personality that comes from the grace of God and a good family.