Letter to the editor: Will abortion horror ever end?

At the end of each year, my Catholic church designates a daily Mass to commemorate the “Holy Innocents,” the infants slaughtered by King Herod in his effort to kill the baby Jesus. It occurs to me that the grisly slaughter of the “holy innocents” is also occurring in huge and shameful numbers in our time, day after week after month after year.

I believe that as a society, our consciences and moral compasses have been so desensitized, and abortion so normalized, that we have lost the true understanding and sense of repulsion over what abortion really is. Is it not truly the slaughtering of pre-born babies?

Abortion-performing doctors must defy their oath to “do no harm.” Expectant mothers must try to suppress any feelings of bonding, defy their natural instinct to give birth to new life and risk potential future haunting feelings of guilt and remorse.

In the run-up to the recent election, Democrats were proclaiming their total, unconditional support for abortion as one of the prime motivations for electing them … and half of our country voted for them.

We look back in horror at past civilizations that practiced the sacrificing of their children. Will future civilizations look back in horror at us? This shameful pox on our society will continue until we have an awakening and change of heart, mind and soul. Sadly, I don’t believe that any legal action could ever make that happen.

Bob McBride

West Deer