Diary of a Ghetto Priest | Abortion: Murder of holy innocents

I love our country. I love our people. I do not believe we are living our lives as true Jamaicans. We are a Christian people; we are rooted in a Judaeo-Christian tradition – wealthy countries do not want this. We do not believe in murder. Murder is the most horrible of crimes before God and man, and takes away the most precious gift God has given us life.

Who will defend the life of little babies in the womb; is it not a little human person? Otherwise, how can it become a human person like you and I? We were once in the womb; one day old, then two, until we were nine months old.

Do not kill the baby in your womb, whether you vacuum aspiration or dismember it. You will commit murder. You will know it. The human conscience is a delicate thing. No matter how you lie to yourself, or others lie to you, you can’t escape the truth. It is a helpless baby in your womb, no matter how old it is.

OPENING THE FLOODGATES

Once we legalise it as an exception for this reason or the other, the floodgates will be opened. When ganja became decriminalised, never have I seen such a widespread use of it. Never have I seen so many young and very old, sitting about, no joy, playing dominoes, not working, harassing women and girls, no jobs, begging, but smoking ganja.

Then there is casino gambling, flexi-work week, including Sundays. There is a fall-off of reverence for Sundays; there is lewd dress among men and women; loud, invasive music; and so many illegal guns.

If abortion is legalised for exceptional cases and promulgated as such, we would have begun the fall down the slippery slope.

Nothing is more tender, nothing more beautiful than the tender loving care of a mother for her child. Nothing is more womanly than a woman taking care of her home with her children and husband being cared for. And despite what the modern aesthetics may say, a woman is most beautiful when she smiles gently at the child in her womb or on her lap.

Death, murder and violence are vastly on the increase with abortion being legalised. Some 50 million babies have been murdered in the womb in America. The US is the highest-producing country of weapons and spends more money on the military than any country in the world.

Just 10 years ago in the print media, there was an indication that more than 70 per cent of Jamaicans are against abortion in every way. Jamaicans saw it as murder. Jamaicans in general hated it because of a natural sense of horror – “This is wrong.” Intellectuals and rationalists, money-driven secularists from the European Union, Canadian International Development Agency, United States Agency for International Development, and even the United Nations, are for abortion.

I’d rather die than to see my country legalise murder of the little one in the womb of the mother.

I ask that those rich and powerful nations who do not want Jamaica to be another Haiti in the Caribbean, do not try to bribe us. We are a poor country and we are in need. Why not try the moral ethics of the Judaeo-Christian faith in order to control population, or are you against it?

Our home for mothers and babies who are in danger can be helped at Holy Innocents. Contact Sister Joanne Belmonte at 876-967-1530 or 876-948-5775.