Recently, I read an opinion piece in the High Plains Journal that was written by Lacey Vilhauer. It was published in the Aug. 16 to 22 edition and was titled “Babies are tiny miracles.” Never did I dream it would affect me in such a personal way! I started writing down my thoughts and asked a friend to help me edit them.
When I had my baby almost 50 years ago, they did not know all the things they know now. The things the article said about conception just blew me away. The article said:
“The probability of a human being even being born is one in 400 trillion as compared to being struck by lightning, which is less than one in a million. By seven to 10 days after conception, a woman’s body is already growing a new organ, the placenta, to support the fetus.
By four weeks, the four chambers of a baby’s heart are already developed, and the heart has beat almost 15 million times by 15 weeks.
The ‘miracle of childbirth’ is not just an expression. A human being born alive is truly a miracle because so many tiny details have to fall in place for a baby to be conceived.”
My personal response to the opinion piece written by Lacey is not meant to be in support of Democrats, Republicans or any specific religion. The things she said made me very aware of the double standards of our society and our individual responsibilities as a part of our society.
When a pregnant woman is murdered, the perpetrator is charged with double homicide. With exceptions to rape, incest and medical situations, is our society so undisciplined that we cannot also prevent unwanted pregnancies?
If you don’t want a seed to grow, make sure you don’t plant it in the first place. Why plant a crop, then destroy it?
We are demonstrating to this generation that it is OK to stop a beating heart because we don’t want to be responsible for our actions. Consequently, people think it is OK to kill anyone of any age who doesn’t fit into our desires or plans.
Pew Research Center reports more than a million hearts stopped beating because of abortion in 2023.
We are allowing and sometimes encouraging one miraculous heartbeat to destroy another miraculous heartbeat.
I Corinthians 6:19-20 says, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”
We are not talking about the right to do what we want with our own bodies—it is what we are doing to the God-ordained miraculous creation of another body.
All I can say is that after reading that opinion piece in HPJ, I just had to share my thoughts with someone! Thanks for letting me share. I am so glad I can still sing “God Bless America.”
Thoughts by NK Miller and edited by C. Jackson, who are High Plains Journal readers.
