Silent Slaughter

Larchmont, NY

Note: This photo was edited to appear depressing, grimy, and as ugly as possible with the exception of the teddy bear since this is the mood when playgrounds are empty because children who by right should have been born, were not.

I created this photo composition to protest passage of the Reproductive Healthcare Act in New York since unborn infants are no longer protected in the third trimester. Abortions can now be performed in New York up to the point of birth. Worse yet, Governor Northam of Virginia believes in post-birth abortions in which a baby's life can be terminated after birth. Actually, even though politicians here in NY won't admit it, this may already be the case since abortion clinics have no obligation to document any live births or measures taken to save these babies. Thus they can kill them with impunity while the official record will indicate no such birth ever occurred!

This should be a concern for everyone since it has nothing to do with protecting a woman's health. The question is, now that abortions can be performed up to the moment of birth in New York, Va. Governor Northam proposes post-birth abortions, where will it end? Will people of faith and those who simply disagree with the so-called "Progressive" agenda or dare be different eventually also be fair game for their lives to be terminated? Is the world per se laying the foundation for another round of genocide?

This was the motivation for the below poem:

Abortion’s Babies

Blessed are the persecuted… for theirs is the kingdom of heaven[1] –
The spirit of Herod lives – innocents are slaughtered without remorse or concern – Genocidal crimes against woman and child and all of humankind alike.

In New York, they lit Freedom Tower in pink to celebrate passage of the Reproductive Healthcare Act – a wolf in sheep’s clothing, infanticide in disguise,
A Nazi inspiration – It might as well have been blood red for the three thousand victims of September 11th murdered at the site and the thousands of infants massacred daily
By a callous world that mocks the limitless potential
And precious worth of each and every unborn life.

Through no fault or choice of their own, like Christ himself,
They are despised and forsaken… pierced and crushed[2] – They are crucified by a cruel, uncaring and sick world – They are innocent sheep led to the slaughter in a silent, unseen Holocaust –
What have I done to you? How have I offended you?[3]

Their soft whimpers and cries go unheard by closed, indifferent ears,
As stone frozen hearts, antithetical to love, are unmoved
By their undeserved horrific plight.

Isaiah’s prophetic words resound loudly in this lost, depraved world – Evil is good and good is evil, darkness is light and light is darkness![4]
Human sacrifice lives! The blood of innocent infants is offered daily
To satisfy evil’s unquenchable, monstrous craving – we are Satan’s slaves!

They say it is about women’s rights and her body, but what about the rights of the baby? What about the baby’s body? Does anyone care in this apathetic twisted world?
In reality, this daily slaughter is a heinous deed, not to protect the future
As the wicked proclaim – For playgrounds lie empty as still swings drift limply in the melancholy breeze,
Cribs remain deathly quiet and nurseries are but joyless expanses –
Mournful testaments to an extinguished future that could have been.

When will these blood offerings end and the world be free of evil’s oppressive yoke?
Will cold hearts ever warm to love, closed minds accept wisdom’s consoling embrace
And blind eyes rediscover light, goodness and hope
So we, a pitiful planet may find our way and salvage the future?
One can only hope and pray for it cannot happen soon enough,
But without God, it simply will not!

© 2019
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[1]Matthew 5:10
[2] Isaiah 53
[3] Good Friday Reproaches (Improperia)
[4] Inspired by Isaiah 5:20



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What if...

What if Mary had allowed herself to be ruled by fear and had allowed social standards to influence her decision-making? What if Mary out of shame – since virgins simply do not conceive or give birth under conventional wisdom – had chosen to have an abortion so the world would judge her favorably?

There would be no joy in the world and the crèche would lie empty. There would be no guiding star and no three kings – just the grim reaper.

Angelic choirs would sing mournful funeral hymns, while she without a doubt would weep with regret as salvation fled the Earth, darkness extinguished the last remnant of light and death ruled for eternity.


Abortion's Nativity created from purchased images from Shutterstock.com and public domain images from openclipart.org.