The death of true freedom

I commend the thousands of pro-lifers who attended the annual National March for Life in Ottawa last week.

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Legalized abortion is a true ecological disaster that has been unleashed throughout the globe and is turning it into a planet of death. Both our governments and mainstream media have gone to great lengths to hide the fact that abortion is really murder. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the human embryo is not a potential human being but a human being with potential. The reality is that human life begins at conception with the creation of a zygote, the first embryonic stage. This zygote contains the full genetic instructions that will guide the development of the human person through the continuum of stages we call foetus, baby, child, adult, old person. The respect for every human life is an essential condition if a societal life worthy of the name is to be possible. When man’s conscience loses respect for life as something sacred, he inevitably ends by losing his own identity. To choose to extinguish in cold blood a life given by God to another person, to reduce to dust and ashes the body of a human being made in His image and likeness, should make us shudder. To claim the right to abortion and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance; that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom. Paul Kokoski

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