Remembering 9/11

What a sad and scary day September 11, 2001 was for us! I have a feeling all of us will remember exactly what we were doing when we heard the news of the terrorist attacks. It will be a day that will live on in our memories.

Here is a quote from a speech by renowned pro-life leader Monsignor Philip Reilly, the founder of Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, about where he was that day. When the terrorist attacks happened, he was outside an abortion mill near the New York harbor where the Twin Towers could be seen easily from his vantage point. He wanted so badly to go there to help but he knew he couldn't. While the drama unfolded before his eyes, the killing of innocent lives continued in the abortuary, and he knew he had to stay where he was to intercede for little lives. It wasn't until midnight that he was able to go to Ground Zero to help. A helpless feeling came over him when he arrived and so he decided to pray the rosary as he stood there.

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"As I prayed the rosary, I closed my eyes and with my eyes closed, I suddenly saw the people in the Tower getting ready for work at 9 a.m. Some were getting a drink of water, others a cup of coffee, all feeling safe and secure inside their office. Then I saw the terrorist plane breaking into their secure quarters and exploding like a great bomb with the people in the office having no place to hide, no place to flee. Then still standing at midnight at Ground Zero, I saw not the people in the Towers, but I saw a womb with an unborn child inside, feeling so safe and secure and suddenly breaking through the wall of the womb was this terrorist object, the instrument of the abortionist, with the child having no place to hide, no place to flee from this terrorist instrument."

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The devastating context of his thoughts surely are not lost on any of us. There's a psychological phenomenon that happens when two people are fighting with one another and a third party comes and attacks one of them. Immediately the two who were fighting join forces against the third party, as if to say, "How dare you beat up my brother?" An outside attack can bring two people close together once again. The 9/11 attacks feel that way to me. All of us Americans were at odds with our politicians, our neighbors, etc. but, the minute we were attacked, we stopped fighting and joined hands against the terrorists. How I wish this would happen with abortion! The thing is innocent, helpless babies are being victimized and their own mothers aren't even coming to their defense against the terrorist instruments the abortionists use. I cannot understand this because, written on every single human heart is natural law, the ability to know right from wrong. Written in natural law is that killing is wrong. After having worked for a long time with women facing unexpected pregnancies, I could go on and on, telling of what I know to be true about women who are victimized, coerced into abortion. I don't believe any women wants to abort her child, deep down. She knows the truth. There are always circumstances surrounding abortions. I always believed that, if we could just get to the core issues, we might have a fighting chance to help her.

Isn't it interesting that our country has a war on terrorism and we find it repugnant, but many of us can't even see the terrorism that is going on right under our noses? This very real terrorism has to end. No woman's rights will be trampled when it does. In actuality, women will be able to follow once again the law written on their hearts. They will finally be set free.