You just can’t get good help these days. Jennifer Raper is suing Planned Parenthood and two other doctors for a failed abortion “causing the plaintiff to remain pregnant.” The “abortion” was performed in April of 2004 and a subsequent doctor visit in July failed to detect the un-terminated pregnancy causing her to give birth to a healthy baby girl in December. Regular Guy Paul has some great commentary on the causation of her pregnancy:
Her “continued pregnancy” was caused by the failure of the abortionist. This is the type of fuzzy thinking (“darkening of the intellect” is the phrase used in Catholic teaching) that is brought on by the embrace of abortion and the culture of death.
My continued life this past five-plus years has been caused by my failure to be in the World Trade Center in Manhatten on September 11th, 2001.
The fact that I’m still here at this keyboard is caused by the failure of those around me to stop me before I blog again.
I owe the lives of my children to the failure of… well, everyone they’ve ever encountered, who have failed to murder them, thus causing them to continue living.
No, modern medical science, perhaps only recently, has pretty conclusively determined the cause of pregnancy, and it has a great deal more to do with Ms. Raper and the baby’s father (of whom the article makes no mention — am I the only one to think that strange?), whose actions were the cause of that pregnancy.
This is also an illustration of how abortion and the modern feminist movement has destroyed our sense for the sacredness of maternity and authentic femininity. Motherhood is a supreme calling for all women, without exception – either biologically or spiritually. Gertrude von le Fort writes in her book The Eternal Woman: “To be a mother, to feel maternally, means to turn especially to the helpless, to incline lovingly and helpfully to every small and weak thing upon the earth.” This is God’s greatest gift to women, according to Mother Teresa – the ability to love as a woman, to be maternal. As she pointed out at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington 13 years ago, abortion teaches a woman not to love, but to kill even her own child to solve her problems. Instead of rejoicing in the great gift of motherhood, Ms. Raper is suing Planned Parenthood for failing to kill her now two year old daughter. This is not new, of course, though frequently this type of litigation involves the birth of a severely disabled child whose parents, had they known, would have killed the child in-utero.
A woman’s soul is meant to be maternal. Abortion, and the abortion mentality, distorts that virtue and wounds the very soul of a woman.
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