May 12 Is Mother’s Day

My husband and I recently found ourselves behind a car whose bumper sticker read, “AS A FORMER FETUS, I OPPOSE ABORTION.” I hope all you former fetuses can say the same.

Writing about the early Christians, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said this: “Small in number, they were big in commitment. They were too God intoxicated to be ‘astronomically intimidated.’ By their effort and example they brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contests.” Little did Dr. King know that in the 21st Century those two ancient evils would be with us again.  

Dr. King wrote his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in 1963, ten years before Roe v. Wade would legalize infanticide. As for gladiatorial contests (I’m thinking now of football) nobody knew back then exactly how dangerous football really was or that it would cause its heroes to suffer from CTE, which has symptoms including memory loss, confusion, depression, suicidal ideation and dementia. But as devastating as football-related CTE can be, the impact of CTE is nothing when you compare it to the infanticide of over 64 million babies since Roe v. Wade was passed.

I’ll close with this: (1) Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to play football and (2) Mammas, please let your babies grow up. 

May the Lord be with you in every decision that you make.

Margot Armer