St. Michaels School, Leamington, Ontario
Winner 10-12 yr. group
“Mommy, why did you kill me? Why didn’t you leave me be? I had my whole life to live. Now you want me to forgive.”
This is what many women hear in their dreams from their babies that they have killed in the past. Many women feel very sorry and guilty for what they have done. When they find out that they are pregnant, they are very scared because they don’t know what to do. Their parents, friends, and doctors pressure them by saying that abortion is the only way out. And in most cases, they listen to them. Doctors say that it is a fast and safe way out. But the mothers are often not informed of all the dangers there are in going on with the abortion. The fathers of the babies have no say in whether she should do it or not. If the mother wants to have an abortion, then there is nothing the father can do.
Over 60,000 babies are killed a year in Canada. That is 5 times more than all the soldiers that were killed in all of Canada’s wars. This is three times more than the people killed in automobile accidents a year in Canada. In Leamington alone, there are approx. 20,000 babies being killed every year.
I don’t understand why another human being can just kill a defenseless baby not even born yet. Especially her own baby, her own blood. This is very bad. This baby can’t even see the many things the world has to offer him/her.
Medical science shows that once a male cell and a female cell unite, right at that second, the egg is fertilized and the baby is forming. When the baby is 3 weeks old it has a heartbeat. This baby feels touch and responds to pain. This wonderful human sucks its thumb, and can grasp an instrument placed in his/her hand.
The babies are being killed by suction, just like a vacuum cleaner, as if the babies are just garbage and do not mean anything to anyone. They are broken up in pieces like sticks. And if the baby does not yet die because of being too big then it would be put on a plate to slowly starve to death.
Many mothers do not think that there are other alternatives than to kill another human being. The mothers are scared of what other people may think of them so they have an abortion secretly. There are a lot of things that they can do. They can just have the baby and put it up for adoption. If they don’t want anyone to know that they are pregnant, then they cane move away to someplace for a year and have the baby.
If the mothers would only sit down and really think of what they are doing then maybe they would realize what they are doing.
And now, in the year of 1984, the worst place a human being can be is in their own mother’s womb.
These three essays bring to an end the publication of the winning entries in The Interim’s 1984 essay contest.
The editors wish to thank all the students who entered the contest. All entries were of high standard and showed a wide understanding of pro-life matters.
The Interim will announce the 1985 essay contest in the March issue.
