A Heart Heavy from the Evil of this World

This morning I am confronted with the heartbreaking news of a young woman from the Sate of New Jersey who went to Maryland for an abortion. From other facts in the case it appears that it was a late-term abortion.

The police investigated the abortionist's clinic (if you can call it a 'clinic') because she suffered nasty injuries: she was taken to hospital in severe condition.

This comes from the local TV station WJZ Baltimore; I can hardly write about it:

The trouble began when Dr. Nicola Riley performed a failed abortion on an 18-year-old woman on Aug. 13, perforating her uterus and cutting her bowel.

The young woman was taken to a hospital by the doctor and the clinic owner:

Union Hospital called police when the semi-conscious teen arrived at emergency with two doctors in a rental car, not in an ambulance.

"The report that came to us was so egregious and the information in the complaint so serious, the state had to respond quickly," said David Paulsen, Md. Health Department. 

 The police promptly raided the clinic taking medical records and seizing a freezer.

"It contained fetuses, approximately 35. They appeared to be close to full-term," said Lt. Matthew Donnelly, Elkton Police.

 Matthew Archbold of the National Catholic Register wrote:

I have increasingly come to agree with C.S. Lewis who said we are in “enemy occupied territory.” Hate has become so commonplace that it has lost its power to surprise meArchbold recalls a similar abortion nightmare in Philadelphia. We are indeed in "enemy occupied territory.”

But the heartache is magnified when I hear people tell me that our civilization has progressed so much; and we have come to the point when we kill 100,000 innocents lives in Canada every year and a million in the USA.

The real horror is that there are those who are preaching the ideology to young women such as Suzanne Collins, who are preaching that the life inside of them is not a person; just an inconvenience; just some tissue, not a life, not a little person.

I hope Suzanne Collins recovers with no long-lasting physical damage. It is true that the vast majority of woman who have abortions will not have to endure what she has endured but they will bear lasting psychological scars.

Suzanne Collins was escorted from New Jersey to Maryland by friends; no doubt those friends were willing to counsel her that the procedure "is nothing" or perhaps "everybody does it." Or perhaps "don't ruin your career (insert the appropriate word "life", "schooling" or whatever).

Gurth Whitaker
Calgary, Alberta.