Catholic Voice

 Awareness of the abominable practice of human trafficking continues to increase.  The sex industry is only one market where vulnerable and powerless human persons are commodified—bought and sold on the black market.  The United Nation’s rather extensive definition of what constitutes human trafficking envisages practices including everything from slave labour to forced organ donation.

 

No doubt Ireland would condemn all forms of human trafficking, right?

 

According to the United Nation’s, human trafficking includes the transportation or receipt of persons by means of an abuse of power or a position of vulnerability, or the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.  Exploitation is meant to include the removal of organs, so it must necessarily include the destruction of whole persons.

 

But what about a pregnant woman whose free choice empowers her to transport her vulnerable and powerless pre-born baby to England or another state where it is legal for her to pay an abortionist to kill her baby by means of a so called safe abortion?

 

Trafficking pre-born babies to their death is not only legal in Ireland, but certain crisis pregnancy services actively advocate and promote the practice and never direct a woman in crisis to consider otherwise.  To present pro-life materials is considered by them to be manipulative when, in fact, women made vulnerable by their crisis pregnancies are being manipulated by what they are not being told.  Even the Royal College of Psychiatrists submits that informed consent requires the provision of adequate and appropriate information to women considering an abortion—even if this might influence her to choose life for her baby.

 

I am fully aware of the many complications women face when seeking to deal with the inevitable confusion that accompanies crisis pregnancies.  Of course, abortion can never be advocated for or promoted.  Nevertheless, these women do not deserve to be judged by me or anyone else.  That is not the goal of this article.  I, in fact, hope and pray for their healing through ministries like Rachel’s Vineyard which are run mostly by women who have experienced abortion and healing.

 

The time has come, however, to call a spade a spade. Notorious abortion advocates like the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA), and their pro-death affiliates in both the north and the south; Irish politicians; and most of all, the good Irish people can no longer shirk their constitutional duty to defend and vindicate the inalienable right to life of pre-born Irish babies.  We cannot be content to say we are a pro-life country while Irish babies die in silence.  It’s time to back up our words with actions.  It’s time to STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING! 

 

Yet, if we seek to work ourselves out of this mess, we need to understand how we got here in the first place.  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, whose cause for canonisation is underway, used to use the following illustration to explain how a once vibrant Christian society can devolve into a culture more reprehensible than that of pagans:  Supposing one drops a frog into a pot of boiling water.  The frog’s immediate reaction is to leap out of the pot as quickly as possible.  Now take the same frog and set it in a pot of water at room temperature, then heat the water by slow, steady increments.  The same frog will allow itself to be literally cooked to death.

 

If one takes pause to examine objectively and honestly Irish culture, the inescapable conclusion is that we are literally allowing ourselves, to use Archbishop Sheen’s term, to be cooked to death.  Anti-life, anti-family, and anti-Christian practices once held as inimical to the Irish culture and Constitution are becoming more and more widely acceptable.  Ironically, what is most twisted is that it is all happening in the name of human rights.

 

Whether on not Archbishop Sheen knew it, his metaphor is a perfect description of what present day spin doctors call the social judgement theory.  The theory holds that people change their views by minor shifts that weaken a position before finally causing it to crumble.  It is the way secular humanist ideologues strive to create a world order according to their sick scheme rather than our God and Creator’s perfect plan.  In other words, enough small changes eventually lead to a major ideological overhaul; enough concessions, and Irish babies will no longer be carried off to die in a foreign land, for they will be legally murdered right at home on Irish soil by Irish doctors.

 

Note how this is already playing out in terms of life and family issues in Ireland and elsewhere.  Secularist ideologues—like those who run the IFPA and the CPA—use smoke and mirror tactics to slowly heat up the water, so to speak.  These social engineers work to change first the way we talk about life and family issues (i.e. obligatory political correctness), then in turn the way we think about those issues (i.e. imposed indoctrination), and ultimately the way we behave in society as we face life and family issues in the real world (i.e. ideological fulfilment).  Monsignor William B. Smith sums it up most poignantly:  All social engineering is preceded by verbal engineering.

 

One needs only consider how abortion has already been welcomed into Ireland by the back door to see what is happening.  Think, for instance, about the terms of the abortion debate.  The opposite of life is death, yet in opposition to “pro-life” we are trained to speak about “pro-choice” instead of using the accurate opposite “pro-death.”  “Choice,” of course, is a good thing.  We then stop thinking about what the object of a particular choice is (i.e. vanilla or chocolate? . . . the death or life of a pre-born baby?) and are content with the thought that “choice” is good.   In essence, we have come to value the power to choose more than life itself, to make “choice” a human right. 

 

Pro-death advocates then turn up the heat even more by taking on the Irish Constitution which used to uphold and defend the right to life of all pre-born babies.  Abortion cannot be legalised in Ireland unless the Constitution and/or how it is interpreted is altered.  So the spin doctors needed to exploit the rape case of an innocent 14 year old girl to arouse public emotion and redirect it towards the pro-death campaign’s move to amend the Constitution.  That is how the Irish people voted to accept the 12^th, 13^th and 14^th amendments.  These amendments were immediately invoked to uphold the constitutionality of The Regulation of Information Act (1995) which regulates how a pregnant woman may be given the information she needs to transport her pre-born baby to a brutal death.

 

Now, the water is approaching the boiling point as an International Abortion provider Marie Stopes advertised their deadly services in the Irish Medical Journal (12.06.09). One can further argue that the IFPA and CPA websites also advocate and promote abortion in a manner which violates The Regulation of Information Act.  They just keep turning up the heat by pushing the envelope farther each time.

 

Call me judgemental, but I condemn all human trafficking, especially of powerless pre-born babies.  If Ireland dares to condemn all forms of human trafficking as well, we must first stop allowing ourselves to be deviously manipulated by those advocating and promoting the agenda of death into accepting their deadly rhetoric—all in the name of human rights!  

This feature is categorised under Life Matters