I came across this video while reading another blog. The stories of these women and girls are heartbreaking. It truly demonstrates the moral state of our world when a new life is seen as burden, something to get rid of instead of the blessing it is. It pains me to see that there are still many cultures that view females as less than human. The different dynamics between men and women are something to be embraced, and I believe that we complement one another when we see each other as the equals we are. Unfortunately there is just so much of the opposite and societies just tear one another to shreds and it's the innocent who suffer the most.
Children have always held a special place in my heart, especially babies. I love seeing a tiny, helpless newborn grow into their personality and learn new things everyday. I don't understand how people can be willing to kill an infant. It just boggles my mind. There has been a lot in the news about abortion and infanticide lately, with both sides becoming more and more heated. I read a fantastic article from a formerly "pro-choice" woman who speculates how people can bring themselves to perform these heinous acts of infanticide and it's counterparts:
"I was reading yet another account of the Greek societies in which newborn babies were abandoned to die, wondering to myself how normal people could possibly accept something like that. Then, a chill tore through my body as I thought:
I know how they did it.
I realized in that moment that perfectly good, well-meaning people -- people like me -- can support gravely evil things through the power of lies. From my own experience, I knew how the Greeks, the Romans, and people in every other society could put themselves into a mental state that they could leave a newborn child to die: The very real pressures of life -- "we can’t afford another baby," "there's no dowry for another girl," "this disability would overwhelm us" -- left them susceptible to that oldest of temptations: To dehumanize other human beings. Though the circumstances were different, it was the same process that had happened with me, with the concurring Supreme Court Justices in Stenberg v. Carhart, the abortion doctors, the entire pro-choice movement, and anyone else who's ever been tempted to dehumanize inconvenient people.
I imagine that as those Greek parents handed over their infants for someone to take away, they remarked on how very unlike their other children these little creatures were: They can't talk, they can't sit up. Surely those little yawns and smiles are just involuntary spasms. I bet you anything they justified their choices by referring to these babies with words that stripped them of their human dignity. Maybe they called them something like "fetuses," and walked away confident that the lives that had been taken were not really human at all."
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/why-my-support-for-abortion-was-based-on-loveand-lies
I don't write this to start a war of words concerning abortion, but to bring awareness to the suffering of fellow women and girls. You see, my husband and I are expecting our first child this year and, if we are having a girl, I want her to grow up in a world where she would be respected and seen as a person, not an object or something to be discarded.
I hope that as compassionate people we can come together and help those who cannot help themselves, who have no voice and are struggling to survive.
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?” -Mahatma Gandhi
Just a thought....
