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Everyone Deserves a Birthday
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A recent graduate of Northwest College in Kirkland, Washington, Witt was captain of the top college debate team in the state. He has won more than 40 public speaking awards. In high school, he was the state’s top wrestler three years in a row. Witt is now pursuing a Ph.D. in communication at University of Southern California, Northridge. He spoke at Eastside Human Life’s Memorial for the Unborn, January 22, 1999.

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Adopted Son Says "Thanks, Mom."
by Jacob Witt

Tonight, January 22, embodies a lot of meaning for each us. It was 26 years ago that seven men in black robes, 2,000 miles from where I now stand, set a dark course for our nation. Pro-lifers have called January 22, 1973 "Black Monday" for a good reason.

But aside from the error in justice and morality made 26 years ago today, January 22 holds a special meaning for me personally. Today is my 22nd birthday. For me, January 22 is a bittersweet day. It is a day to be grateful for the gift of life, and, it is a day to pause and remember those who were not as fortunate as I was.

One reason I think that I was asked to share tonight is that 22 years ago in 1977, just as the push for abortion was taking hold of our nation, I was adopted.

I am alive today because my birth mother was moved to choose life. I join with you in honoring her, and the others like her, for the courage and sacrifice to do the right thing. I am here tonight because my adoptive Mom and Dad not only believed that life is the most precious gift, but acted on that belief.

Twenty-two years ago, my mother brought home a chubby, dark-haired baby boy and made him part of a family. So every January 22, I am profoundly grateful to my parents. If they were here tonight, I would say, "Thanks, Mom and Dad, for being truly pro-life, for yours is a shining example of compassion and love."

Tonight is a time to reflect and remember. The earliest memory I have as a child was 20 years ago on my second birthday. With bucked teeth and eager eyes, I awaited the pink birthday cake topped by two burning candles that my mom had prepared for me. I know pink isn’t exactly the color for a young boy, but my love for strawberry cream cheese frosting far out weighed my manly pride of having a pink cake. I enjoyed that birthday with all the innocence that a child can. I will always cherish that birthday memory and hope that one day I can give that kind of love to a family of my own.

We are all here tonight because we believe that everyone deserves a birthday. We are here because we believe that life itself is a precious birthday gift. We are here with faith that life is every child’s birthright. But we live in world that deconstructs morality in such a pro-gressive manner that "life" begins to be a definition and not a condition. In the confusion of finding a definition of life, we lose sight of our humanity. "Humanity" means reaching out and permitting others to work, think, love, and most of all, live.

As a college student and political science major, I have just completed studying the great philosophers of the world. One such philosopher was Thomas Hobbes. Backed up by the thinking of John Locke, we use Hobbes to base many of the ideas found in our United States Constitution. In his political science essay, "Leviathan," Hobbes places into the hands of every human being the right-to-life. Each person has a right to life that cannot be taken away — no matter what law, ordinance, or judgment is passed by the government. Life is held as paramount.

In the 1970s, the abortion industry pushed for a woman’s right to choose. Though pro-life advocates warned that abortions would eventually become common place if legalized, abortion advocates insisted that only in extreme cases — such as when the health of the mother was compromised — would an abortion take place.

It is with 20/20 hindsight that we look back today, realizing that their argument, which was seen as a "slippery slope" one 26 years ago, has become true.

Our society today pushes our youth to abort children. I can hardly believe the statistics. Did you know that for every baby available, there are 40 couples waiting to adopt? Yet today in America, one out of every four pregnancies ends in abortion. One in four! The test we use now doesn’t concern the mother’s health but the mother’s convenience.

We have medical board leaders lying to the public about the number of abortions performed and the horrible realities of "partial-birth" abortions. The reasons for these lies are clear. Abortion lobbyists know the gravity of the acts they promote and the ultimate negative effects they have on our society — first, philosophically towards devaluation of life, and second, in the pragmatic, everyday morality of how we view and treat others.

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were right: A society that denies the inalienable right-to-life will not long prosper.

It is a blessed opportunity to stand here tonight and reflect as I embark on my 23rd year of life. We often forget what a precious gift being alive really is, and all that it means. None of us would want to forfeit our lives simply because someone else thought us inconvenient.

Everyone truly does deserve a birthday. I thank you for standing in the way of deconstruction of our society and it’s morals. Thank you for working together to construct a new world where each life is welcomed — where chubby little boys and girls, just like me, might get a chance to grow up.

May God bless you for all your efforts.



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