By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation
"Beauty will save the world," wrote author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
I believe this is especially true when it comes to the issue of abortion.
Abortion is inherently ugly, its gruesomeness shown in the suctioning of a preborn baby's body and the ripping apart of tiny legs and arms. It is a ghastly enterprise, perhaps best demonstrated in the story of West Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who was ultimately convicted of murdering three full-term babies and causing the death of a female immigrant patient, Karnamaya Mongar. Gosnell plied an ugly trade and is suspected of killing hundreds of babies by "snipping" their spinal cords.
In sharp contrast, a baby is inherently beautiful, as indicated by the "oohs" and "ahhs" which accompany the miracle known as birth. To see the face of a newborn is to catch a glimpse of heaven. It stirs the soul and lifts the spirit--as all beauty does.
With each abortion, the abortionist is killing beauty. He or she is depriving the world of an unrepeatable, intrinsically lovely creation.
The pro-life movement challenges our nation and our world to rediscover beauty--the beauty of a baby's eyes, the gorgeousness of a smile, the preciousness of little feet.
In celebrating life we are celebrating beauty, that other-worldly attribute which will indeed save the world.
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