An Ode to Life!

Lamentations – by Laurence Wedderburn MD (former Pediatrician)

From The Womb “Those who about to die, AD.52”

An Ode to Life

Even jackals offer the breast, they nurse their young, but my people have become cruel Lam. 4:3

(NASB).

A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; and she refused to be comforted, because they were no more. Matt 2:18 (NASB)

I grieve with sorrow. I cry out and plead for help. I pray for someone to sing me a lullaby.

I once was safe, tucked in my mother’s womb, but now the climate of my world has changed.

My pregnant mother says her womb is hers to do with as she wills.

There was a time when parents celebrated pregnancy and greeted a newborn’s birth with joy.

Is not the womb my natural home? Or am I but an intruder?

When did my mother’s or father’s rights eclipsed my own?

My conception was not my will. Who will stand up for me as I plead my case?  

I am the tiniest of human beings facing clear and present danger.

In the image of God, in my mother’s womb was I fearfully and wonderfully made.

My days ordained by God, have by man been cut short.

I weep, I pray, please haste to rescue the unborn death from abortion.

Love is the greatest commandment – selfless love, sacrificial love.

I am weary with my sighing! My tears poured out.

Among those unborn, some of us are male and others female.

Does the feminist not care for baby girls?

Woe is me; I am afflicted with pain and sorrow.

Am I a felon? Of what crime am I accused?

I plead for privacy - not intrusion.

I beg for my life and pursuit of happiness.

Where did my mother’s innate love for her child go?

Am I a “mistake”, an “accident”, to be terminated with legal, social and medical approval, without objection or remorse?

How could the rights of women give her the power to suppress the rights of her unborn child?

Am I not a human person with inalienable rights?

Woe is me: at a “health” clinic excised without disease, swept away, my life extinguished!

Residing in the womb does not make me less human:

Elderly humans become dependent after a time?

By this logic they encounter Medical Assisted Suicide called euthanasia.

Who has “right to privacy”. Where is my advocate? Where is my judge?

Is termination my foetal existence based on a mother and or a father’s choice?

I cry out for justice for the innocent. Is there no sympathy over shedding of innocent blood?

Where is the Ethicist? Where is the Moralist?  No one is more violated than me.

Is the rapist or perpetrator of incest being punished by aborting-killing his seed.

Is this justice - or vengeance? Is this punishing the unborn child for the acts of the parent?  

Why am I being executed, sentenced to death?

With “Voluntary interruption of pregnancy” I am to be dislodged from my bed and my lifeline snapped.

There is talk of “sexual and reproductive health” and “planned parenthood”.

What is the mother’s responsibility in reproductive care and control?  

Has abortion replaced birth control? Is taking the life of the foetus the final solution? Or the cover up?

Since 1973 more than 60 million legal abortions (pills, suction, D & C) have occurred in the United States. Some women have had second, third, fourth or more approved abortions.

Some reasons given by subjects of abortion are: “career”, “not ready”, “young”, “unmarried”, “economic”, “social stigma”.

Inconvenience they say. What about the conscience of the parents and the abortionists?

Does denial of the unborn foetus’ humanity but is rather “a mere clump of cells” relieve the woman’s conscience to accept the surgical interruption of her pregnancy and the destruction of her baby.

Is the abortion procedure no more than the removal of a cancerous tumour?

When did pregnancy become a disease? The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States monitors abortions.

Is “Planned Parenthood” not a contradiction? Does “Health Clinic” mean “Convenience Clinic”?

I, Babe-in-the-womb, am innocent yet condemned to die. I pray for mercy; for abortions to cease.

Who would intentionally detach their own flesh and blood from their lifeline?

Why am I repelled from my womb home. Am I an alien? How is this fair?

I am unloved and to be executed, I am deserving of an incubator, not the death chamber.

How many lives of potential inventors, artists, peacemakers, prodigies have been terminated I wonder?

Are there not males, females, and couples suffering infertility?

What an irony: so many human beings attempting childbirth by in vivo and in vitro fertilization.

Is there not a long waiting list for adoption-parents, and foster-parents?

Spontaneous abortions still often precipitate severe psychological pain.

PS The Deliberate Medical Interruption of Pregnancy i.e. Legal Abortion, has become a political football,

I feel therefore compelled to express this opinion. LCWW, MD October 2024 Oakville, Ontario, Canada