"you formed my inmost being"

Our very protection of human life is fundamental, the very basis of our Declaration of Independence. All of our rights, that we must truly cherish and fight for, depend on the right to life itself, for if that right is ever taken away, eliminated, all other rights will follow that lead.

Roe vs. Wade a disastrous decision in 1973 has been overturned on the federal side, leaving this decision of whether to allow the legal killing of a child in the womb of their mother up to each State. Yes, to kill a child of God in the womb of life.

Even the word abortion has started to take on a commonality that is defined as a miscarriage. There are miscarriages of course and we mourn the loss of a child of God in those times, and the effect it can have on all those husbands and wives who are praying to begin or add to their families, but the active participation of ending the life of a child in the womb of life, in over 90% of all cases, comes down to an act of someone not wanting that child of God, a world of self and selfishness.

The Catholic Church has always led the fight to end the killing of a child in the womb, Euthanasia, assisted suicide. The deliberate killing of a child in the womb is the destruction of the very work of God, his creation. “You formed my inmost being, you knit me in my mother’s womb.” That is right, in my mother’s womb. It is not health care or one’s own rights to decide whether or not another person should live or die.

Come November we will start to hear about the coming of Christ, the first coming as a small child in the womb of our Blessed Mother Mary. Jesus came into our world as a small child, Mother Mary carried him in her womb, until his birth of which we celebrate at Christmas. There is also, during this time of our readings, the second coming, when Jesus will come to us again, and we call it the “End Times.” In reality the end times for all us is when our good Lord calls us all back to himself, and we do not know the time.

What a gift the women of this world have been given, for they have that God-given ability to procreate, to have children. The world has lost the gift of millions who were knit together by the hand of God, who hold the very future of mankind in their God-given talents to make a difference for all of mankind, all because another person made the decision that they have no worth, and that they are not truly a life. October is  “Respect Life” month, where we are called to form, as God formed us in the womb of life, we are called to form our own consciences and have the moral courage to respect this beautiful gift of life from the very moment of conception, until our natural death.

Lord, I do thank you for the gift of my life and for all of my brothers and sisters. Give me the moral courage to always stand on the side of life, the life that was gifted to me, and to all of us by your own hand as you gently knitted me in my mother’s womb. Form my conscience to always defend the inherent, the innate gift of a child in the womb of life. Amen.