Opening Prayer

Glimpse in the idea of life

Ten years ago yesterday, I carried you beneath my heart. Ten years ago today, I stopped the beating of your heart. I, your mother, the one
who gave you life, also gave you death.

It’s been a decade and still my blood runs cold and I catch my breath whenever I hear the word “abortion”. There’s an emptiness inside of
me that can never be filled, a chill that has never been warmed, a grief that will never end. To me you will forever remain an unfinished
song, a flower that never bloomed. Even during your last fragile moments of life, I wondered, “Is my baby a boy or a girl?” The question ran
through my mind again and again as I tried to block out the sickening sounds of you being sucked from my womb and my life... I simply
nodded in defeat and sadness as this man in white patted my trembling hand and said, “Now aren’t you glad it’s all over?”

As I lay there... I could hear the nurses chattering about co-workers, new cars and clothes. To them the extermination of your life was
simply a job... To me it was the darkest day I had ever known. “The Abortion” – the most heart-wrenching experience I had suffered in my
18 years; it was certainly your most painful experience in your three short months. It has taken me all these years to get over it.

Now... I realize this is something I will never get over. That fateful April day has replayed itself over and over in my mind like a horror movie
one forces herself to watch, then cannot forget. Even in my distraught state of mind, I knew there were other options but I was too scared
to consider them. Still a child myself, I “wasn’t ready” to be a mother: What I didn’t realize was that I was already a mother. When you
became my child at the moment of conception, my love for you began at the very same time, and, although your life was ended, my love
has never died.
Your silent screams have awakened me from sleep many times... and I have lain in the dark and mourned the loss of the baby I killed. I
have even contemplated ending my life as I ended yours.
It has been ten years and I have still not forgiven myself. Have you forgiven me? Has God forgiven me...? In many nightmares over the years
scenes of a tiny fetus in a trash bag haunt my subconscious. Often wakening in a cold sweat, I feel again the excruciating pain of the
abortion itself — but those ten minutes were nothing compared to the ten years of pain I’ve lived with since.

For years my heart has ached to write you this letter, but the paper was covered with tears before I could begin. For some reason, though,
tonight is different. Perhaps it is meant to help others avoid the agony I have experienced, to help girls “in trouble” as I was ten years ago,
to realize that there are alternatives to abortion... if it does help prevent even one abortion, it will have served its purpose.

But, Baby, my real purpose in sending it to you is to let you know that I love you, wherever you are. And I am sorry. Forgive me.
Love,
Mommy
 Why Woman decides for Abortion?
Why man allows the Abortion process?
Lack
CONSCIENCE
TRUE OR CORRECT
ERRONEOUS
BAD
WEAK
SCRUPOLOUS
LAX
INFORMED
Sources of Errors of judgement
• Ignorance of Christ
• Bad Example from others
• Enslavement to one’s passion
• Assertion of a mistaken notion of autonomy of conscience
• Rejection of Church’s authority
• Lack of Conversion and of Charity
Life is a matter of choice