Abandoned In Somalia; Aborted in America

An article in the Nation & World section of the Charlotte Observer on August 12, 2011 quickly caught my attention.  A photograph of a Somali child, looking more like a living skeleton than a boy, was shown waiting for food at a refugee camp.  According to the author, drought and famine has forced 100,000 people to flee their homes to Mogadishu in search of food and water--in the past two months alone.

Malkhadir M. Muhumed said the U.S. estimates more than 29,000 Somali children younger than five have died from famine in the past three months.  He states "an unknown number too weak to walk have been abandoned after food and water supplies ran out."  ....Left alone to die when food and water ran out! 

The article goes on to quote Dr. John Kivelenge, a mental health officer for the International Rescue Committee at Dadaab.  It so parallels the aftermath of abortion in America, I was stunned.  He said, "The picture of the children they abandoned behind will come back to them and haunt them.  They will also have poor sleep and social problems." 

If mothers and fathers who abandon their children to a sure death in Somalia are haunted with regret, would not mothers who abort their children in the U.S. feel remorse, too?  If this is true, and I feel confident it is, why did North Carolina Governor Perdue feel compelled to veto a bill asking for a 24 hour waiting period for women seeking abortion?  In her opinion, is twenty four hours' consideration too much to ask when deciding to end a life?     

Excluding an unknown number of chemical abortions, here are the statistics for surgical and medical abortions in the U.S.:

Total number of abortions in the U.S. since 1973: Over 51 million
Abortions per year: 1,200,000
Abortions per day: 3,288
Abortions per hour: 137
9 abortions every 4 minutes
1 abortion every 26 seconds

Mourn the children of Somalia dying daily from disease, starvation, and abandonment.  But mourn, too, over 51 million babies aborted in the U.S. since Roe v Wade.  Thankfully, the North Carolina legislature overrode the Governor's veto of the abortion bill.  Nevertheless, I will vote against Beverly Purdue on November 6, 2012--in support of the babies.

Sources: 
Charlotte Observe Article, "Famine Forces Tortured Choices" by Malkhadir M. Muhumed http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/08/12/2521130_famine-forces-tortured-choices.html

American Life League http://www.all.org/nav/index/heading/OQ/cat/MzQ/id/NjA3OQ/


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