Are We Helping, Really?

It baffles my mind to think about the reality of what Planned Parenthood does for poor people in other countries; they kill their babies for free, but is it really free. With Obama's lift on the ban for federal funds to be used for free abortions in other countries, we continue to show our arrogant control in poverty stricken communities buy telling poor, desperate women we'll help them, and we'll help by killing their unborn baby. What a price they pay for wanting relief from the pains of poverty? They pay with their child's life.

I wonder, really, are we helping these poor women when we tell them the only answer for ending the cycle of poverty is to kill their unborn children. We assume these mothers don't want another burden of a child, but maybe they just want to have their child and raise him without war, poverty, or disease. Instead of offering food, water, and safety, we offer a free and destructive end, abortion.

Are we helping, really? Many try to say we are doing a favor for the poor families in our world today by killing their offspring, we are lifting a burden off their shoulders. Their children are going to die anyway of starvation or severe health issues and they will have no quality of life, so the humane thing to do is just terminate these poor babies. This is the philosophy of Planned Parenthood advocates in third world countries, no unwanted babies in our world, right?

But I ask you, do mother's truly want to kill their babies, or are they being convinced it is the right thing to do with all of the poverty in the world. Are they being told there is no other way and their baby will starve or die of disease, so it's better to just terminate the pregnancy and end the baby's life now, before she suffers. The deceptive reasoning perpetuated by world powers concerning the plight of nations is overpopulating humans, and because we are without enough resources to go around, we must control the population. That's the story the powers to be try to tell us anyway.

I differ on their perspective. There is ample evidence to prove there is enough clean water and food to go around if governments would learn how to get along, stop the wars, and distribute food and water equitably. Unfortunately, war will never end as long as we continue to wage the most unjust war, with the most devastating causalities, in mankind's entire history, the war against the unborn baby.

It is our responsibility to take care of our poor, not kill them. I believe abortion is a systematic plan to eliminate the poor of our world, by eliminating the poor, poverty is eliminated. So, are we helping the poor, or just helping ourselves by killing the poor and ridding the world of the burden of poverty? As Jesus teaches His followers, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give drink to the thirsty, and shelter the homeless. When we help like Jesus teaches, we truly are helping. Any other way is simply not good enough.

Freedom to Lose

Unborn babies with beating hearts,

which science proves they have from the start,

are dying everyday in silent battlefields

and they’re defenseless and helpless without swords or shields.

They feel pain like we do

but we can’t see it.

No, we accept it because a few

have convinced us to believe it.

That these precious bodies mauled by plastic and steel

It’s a right talking choicers have forced us to feel.

We know the truth, abortion is death.

A violent murder masked by law.

A freedom that will destroy us all.

K.A. Ball

8/15/2000