Guest Column: 'My Reasons for Fighting Against Abortion"

Father Anthony Mellace, DEFEND LIFE, Wednesday, May 7, 2008

This column is written by Fr. Anthony Mellace. Fr. Mellace has a new website: http://www.freehorizon.org/.

In this article, Fr. Mellace lays out two very compelling reasons why everyone has the responsibility and duty to do all they can to end abortion. It all boils down to love of God (abortion pains Him deeply) and love of neighbor (abortion hurts people and its effects are felt throughout all of society, especially the guilt of the sin).

My Reasons for Fighting Against Abortion

Some people will say that I am against a procured abortion for the horror that I feel before the slaughter of innocent babies in the wombs of their mothers.

Others will say that I am against this crime in view of my obligations as a priest and member of the Catholic Church to condemn it.

Still others will say that I am against a procured abortion because it is an intrinsic evil and bad of its own nature and therefore justified under absolutely no circumstances at all.

While all the above are true, they are not the main reasons why I am against abortion.

There are two principal ones that stir me passionately against this great insanity of a crime. The first is that this evil crushes God’s very heart and spirit. Ever since 1967, I have never been able to pray to Jesus in peace before the tabernacle without Him nagging me to no end and repeating in my ears the same constant and pleading words: “Get rid of abortion! Get rid of abortion! Get rid of abortion! It wounds my heart with an especially deep and excruciating pain.”

I had to therefore get up and do something to relieve God of this affliction coming to Him from abortion. If I went to pray to Him again, I would be hearing the same words over and over again. He counted on me to take away these thorns in His heart coming from this horrendous murder of defenseless lives. I felt like a husband who could no longer bear to see his wife dying from cancer and goes in search of some medicine to cure her or relieve her pain.

The second reason for being against abortion is a personal and selfish one. God is preparing a chastisement for humanity on global proportions never before seen in the history of the human race. Knowing about this, I rather wish that I had been born in a different epoch of history. When the punishment comes, it will affect everyone, whether good or bad. It did no good for a person to complain to God and declare that he was not part of the Nazi regime in Hitler’s Germany and therefore should not be taken to a concentration camp. When the chastisement of World War II came, it struck everyone, whether saints or sinners. Religious, as well as non-religious people were gassed to death.

The only two sins I know of that would provoke a punishment of catastrophic proportions is abortion and homoerotic behavior.

A father can tolerate many failings and weaknesses in his child, but if this son were to really go beyond the limits, the father would no longer support this, but lose his patience and respond with a heavy spanking.

There are two types of wrongs that God supports, but one causes Him to release His powerful arm against humanity. Our daily sins are forgiven by God with much patience, love, mercy and understanding. God loves the sinners who are always trying to better themselves. Iniquitous acts are cold, heavy, serious, pre-meditated and pre-calculated crimes that subject one to the fires of hell. God, in a tremendous attitude of mercy, still tolerates the iniquities of mankind and practices a long patience with us.

Abominations, however, are the types of sins insupportable to God. They are sins of the worst kind which attract severe punishment. Abortion is an abomination before God’s eyes. It evokes his fiery justice and anger on mankind. Knowing all this, I really want to save my skin and the skin of others as well. If I do fight abortion, it is because I do not want to see myself, my town, valley, State, country or family and friends destroyed in the Divine upheaval provoked by this crime.

Abortion is not a private matter between the doctor and the mother, but involves the chastisement and destruction of our own lives and society as well. If a person enters a public swimming pool without a doctor’s approval, his disease could spread to all the other people present also. Abortion is a disease that affects not only the abortionists, but all of us who live in their midst and are threatened in our very existence and peace by their abominable activities.

Sin has serious social as well as private implications and consequences.

Why should I suffer a Divine chastisement because of some blind vultures who have the shameless audacity and sole desire to live off of human carnage and insult God to His Face?

Not only will they be swept away by the deluge of God's anger, but will drag along the rest of us with them. It is for this reason that fence sitters and even those who might even agree with abortion, nonetheless should ardently fight against it and eliminate it from our communities. If the fire department tells me I am not to make any barbecues because the weather is warm and dry, I will obey, despite what I might think of barbecues. Safety and the conservation of my environment must precede my personal interests or ideas and tastes.