Jonathon Van Maren is a gifted writer, God’s blessing to the Canadian pro-life movement and an inspiration to us all. His “Christmas is the opposite of abortion: A full cradle and an empty grave” is as powerful a Christmas message—and rebuke to the death peddlers —as you will ever read. While my overview is hopelessly inadequate, I hope it conveys the loveliness of the Christmas and the ugliness of the abortion industry’s perversion of the greatest story ever told.
He begins with the conundrum “to see the spiritual descendants of Herod” –abortion groups –”celebrate the season by requesting donations and wishing everyone happy holidays.” They “twist themselves into knots to acknowledge Christmas without being too religious, but I suppose it is also understandable.”
You ask yourself, why bother? For starters, ‘Nobody likes being left out, even those who spend the rest of the year dispatching God’s tiny gifts to the next world with scalpels and suction aspirators.”
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But there are other reasons “abortion groups have such a complicated relationship with Christmas,” Van Maren writes:
Mary’s welcoming of an unexpected Child as a gift (indeed, to the whole world) is not the sort of story abortion activists wish to tell.
Indeed, every year around this time some of the angrier feticide fans post memes fantasizing about the Virgin Mary having an abortion, revealing that abortion advocacy and hatred of Christianity are nearly always inextricably intertwined.
At its foundation, and its founding documents, “Abortion ideology is predicated on the idea that we must not sacrifice for others,” while “the Christmas story is the ultimate rebuke to that idea.”
The story surrounding Jesus’s birth flummoxes abortion activists. “When Elizabeth, carrying John the Baptist below her heart, met Mary the Mother of God, her child—then a fetus—leapt in the womb to greet his Savior, also a child in the womb.” Van Maren asks what possibly can the purveyors of death do with this story?
“Even the language abortion activists use reflects the fact that their worldview is antithetical to the Christmas message.”
The abortion worldview is merely a perverse inversion of the Gospel message, the triumph of selfishness and bloodshed over innocence and beauty. They will deny it. They try to dress up their message in the language of rights. But the truth is incontrovertible. The result of an abortion is a dead baby. That is the point of abortion. That is why people get them.
Van Maren concludes
Their forceps and needles have stopped hearts and broken hearts, and the holiday season often reminds those who made this awful choice of those who are not with them.
Planned Parenthood and their abortion allies have it all wrong.
Success, to an abortion activist, is an empty cradle and a full grave.
The essence of the Christmas story is a full cradle and an empty grave.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in at National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.
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