Strive for Beauty and Stop Abortion

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.
 

The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation is a grassroots right-to-life organization with members statewide. As the state affiliate of National Right to Life, PPLF is committed to promoting the dignity and value of human life from conception to natural death and to restoring legal protection for preborn children. For more information on the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, please use this link.