Someone The World Will Never Know

Someone the World Will Never Know
Good morning ladies, gentlemen and members of the jury. IT IS quite a good morning isn’t it? We’ve been given the chance to enjoy life for another day, theopportunity to love, to laugh and to be thankful for being alive. Life is a precious gift, a miracle, and adventure. But, what if the chance to live had been taken away from us? What if your or my right tolive had been violated? That is the tragicreality of an estimated of forty six million babies who are aborted every year, just try to picture Chile’s and Peru’s whole population being murdered, quite shocking, right? But that’s whatabortion is, the killing of an innocent child. And for those who are not yet convinced the fetus is an actual human being, listen to this: Everything that determines the individuality and the originalityof a person is established AT conception. The first single cell contains the entire genetic blueprint in all its complexity. By the end of the three months of pregnancy, which is when most abortionstake place, the baby is sensitive to heat, touch, light and noise, all body systems are working, the baby will wake and sleep, make a fist, suck his thumb and even have his own and unique fingerprints.Mother Teresa once said that if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can tell people not to kill each other? Taking that into consideration, I’m sure most of us will feel abortionis an astonishingly unethical procedure that greatly deteriorates the moral sense of our society.
But, what if? What if a rape victim gets pregnant? What if a teenager is expecting a baby? Or whatif a mother simply can’t financially support the unborn child? These are polemic situations that wouldn’t be as controversial if society took into account that life does not and mustn’t depend on...