Get the Ricochet app
Ricochet will work fine in a browser on your mobile devices, but for the best experience please download our app.
Before I ever set foot in this country, I viewed America as the land to be for anyone who values liberty. Even more so, to me, America was the apex of the civilized world. Then, after my first month on an American college campus, I learned about "women's right to choose." It turned out that Americans kill babies on an industrial scale. Talk about culture shock!
As November 5th approaches, all I see on TV are pro-abortion ads. Granted, I only watch 30 minutes of TV in the breakroom at work each day, but that's still one too many. What's with Democrats and abortion? What about the women who vote on the basis of it? Do they have nothing to worry about besides abortion? Economic security? Physical safety? Or even world peace? It’s all abortions, abortions, and more abortions. Do they have no agency over their own bodies at all? It’s like an obsession with them.
In Angkor, at Vrah Vishnuloka temple, more commonly known as Angkor Wat, the bas-relief of Judgment of Yama: Heaven and Hell, there is a short scene of abortion being carried out as well as images of women who had abortions being tortured in the last level of hell. Khmer belief holds that a fetus is not developing into a person; rather, he is already a person as the soul enters at the moment of insemination. And his soul, which has his individual identity—not just his mother's flesh but a unique life—along with all of his characteristics, even if they have yet to manifest, and his past karma. Abortion thereby halts the soul's progression, and that is against God; Vishnu is known as "the protector of the future infant."
If you think this is just a religious mumbo jumbo, because of course I had been told by feminist classmates that exact thing, go 270 miles south of Angkor to Phnom Penh, at Tuol Sleng museum, formerly Khmer Rouge’s S-21 prison, where a picture of a female prisoner holding her baby hung in a room. Do you know how that baby was killed? By having his head bashed against the tree as bullets were too precious to waste. And he was not the only baby to be killed this way; many, many more babies met this same end. Tell me, is there a difference between a Democrat advocating for abortion—even abortion at and after birth—and the Khmer Rouge murdering a newborn child? After all, the killing is done in pretty much the same way.
Discussion (28)
To read this bio, please join Ricochet.
Excellent observations. I remember that one of the bumper stickers frequently seen back in the 70s read, "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
Well, men still can't get pregnant but somehow abortion has become a sacrament.
To read this bio, please join Ricochet.
You have identified the fundamental sin of modern America, DMak. It's unconscionable.
To read this bio, please join Ricochet.
If Harris does win, it will be because a substantial number of Americans have made abortion one of their highest values. And a sinful nation such as that deserves the suffering to come.
CHARTER MEMBER
To read this bio, please join Ricochet.
This is very close to the Catholic argument I listened to on a podcast today. It's not even a religious argument, it's scientific fact. Every person who ever lived started as a fertilized egg with a unique genetic identity from her mother (I use the feminine purposefully). The "embryo" is a living human organism and the point of abortion is to kill it. These are facts.
If things go south over the next weeks, months, years in America, it could well be divine comeuppance for the "industrial scale" abortion practices we've adopted thanks to Democrats -- the Party of Death.
To read this bio, please join Ricochet.
Fantastic post.
You're seeing five of 28 comments. Sign in, or join for just $5 per month, to read them all and add your own.