The image at the top of this column is not some mass of unwanted cells, like some tumor blocking the way to a splendid career in the corporate world, a career of meetings and lunches and fine clothes worn in those giant downtown palaces of steel and glass. It is not a roadblock to promotion to partner at a big law firm, where power and wealth await.
It is not a barrier to recreation, or to ambition or to joy. It is not an impediment to spiritual growth. It isn’t easy. It comes with great responsibility, with lost hours, sleeplessness, anguish, and concern that only parents know. It also comes with joy that cannot be explained.
It is the enemy of the culture of death. Rep. Flores knows this. There are costs to creating and supporting a culture of death. We see teenagers and young men slaughtering each other on the streets in the gang wars, and violent crime rising, fathers absent from the home, as the culture of death devours them and sprouts its leprous blossoms.
So, that infant in the mother’s womb at the top of this column is more than just a symbol.
It is God’s gift and His offered antidote to the culture of death.
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