4/07/2021

Woman-with-Child

Ross Douthat writes a withering assessment of the pro-life movement that also rings true:

Put these realities together, and you get a conclusion that most Republicans have not internalized. To restrict abortion in a just and sustainable way, to reduce both the personal hardship of parenting and the incidence of illegal abortion, you probably need some kind of policies like Romney’s plan no matter what the consequences for work incentives or single motherhood. More unintended births to poor women in the near term are a necessary price of pro-life victory — with the lives of the babies themselves the reason that price is very much worth paying.

He goes on to conclude what St. John Paul the Great and the Church Fathers have been saying all along: the most important persons enshrined in our law and policy should be the Woman-with-Child!

Ever wonder why the Madonna and Child is such a widespread artisitic motif? You think that's merely accidental?? It's as though God is shouting, "Here! This. This is what you should be focusing your efforts on: the Woman-with-Child!" Why else would she appear to St. Juan Diego as a pregnant maiden??

Can you imagine if the Women's Rights movement had actually focused on the rights of women? What it could have accomplished instead in that Decade of Death, the 1970s?

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