Deceptive Arguments of PP

                                                   Raising Cain

The pro-abortionists feel that it is better to kill a child than to have it come into a world poor, miserable, without a home and love of parents, or raised by a single mother. They also feel that the less people you have in society, the more material goods there will be to go around for everyone and social poverty will be eliminated.

I live in Brazil and have worked amongst some of the most impoverished areas of the big cities for over twenty years. I have seen and witnessed numberless single mothers with two, three, five or eight children that were raised ok by them. These children were very healthy, intelligent, happy and robust. On the other hand, I also visited many rich couples with only one or two sons and daughters who constantly suffered from asthma, diabetes, sinuses, etc and were extremely pale, weak and depressed. The question of raising a child is not one that depends on the amount of material goods and conditions which a person possesses, but rather on a wholesome, positive, courageous, common sense, mature, psychological and spiritual attitude and outlook on life and its challenges. 

When I was a child, I remember how my mom took care of her seven young children. She took on a job, made pizza and bread to sell to friends in order to earn a modest income and had us all work and learn to earn our own money. We were poor, but had dignity and happiness and the essential things of life were not lacking: warmth, affection, love, clothing and food and a bed to sleep in. Our work bore fruit and despite our poverty, all seven of us went through college with honors. We were also very healthy and I think I saw a doctor about as many times as I saw the diocesan bishop: only once in my youth period.

The problem with parents today is that they want to spoon feed their children with everything and end up raising little lazy spoiled monsters that are unable to even tie their own shoes. What is wrong in today’s world is the sort of modern child education psychology that is applied in the families. We have veered away from good common sense upbringing and gone towards this ridiculous and bizarre way of doing things proposed by these contemporary and wacky gurus of child education. That is why no one knows how to raise a kid any longer and therefore prefers to simply kill the little unborn brat.

Abortion has been around in the USA for over 35 years. Planned Parenthood has had plenty of time to prove its thesis. It has eliminated 56 million babies. Are there now enough material goods to go around for everyone? I see more poverty in the USA now than in the pre-abortion days. In the pre-abortion days, I never such economic catastrophes as have happened in these past years. So where is this so called social poverty that the practice of abortion is supposed to eliminate? I still see it around and no one has become any richer because of the presence of abortion, except the very people who advocate it so strongly.

Father Anthony Mellace