Bottled mishaps
The average rate of premature infants squeezed tight in a container, grows into even a large number every year. Our society’s liberal mind is already immune to the rampant situation of mothers who disown their very own flesh and blood. It is undeniable that the single most predictable cause behind such inhumane act is unwanted pregnancy.
A lot of cases that was once disgusted by many is now being ignored, if not completely accepted. Is this one way of drawing a picture that whatever time is the sole arbiter despite how inhumane that action is? Are we to ignore the fact that what we are fighting for here is not the dignity of women who by chance conceived a child with no intension, but the right of every innocent child to experience life because it is his primary right to?
In Christian Morality, life is the most precious among all gifts that needs to be preserved no matter what. It is our very existence. Without it, the earth would only be a useless slum. The life therefore is to be given importance to whatever way we can, this definitely includes the innocent bundle curled inside a mothers womb who refuses to accept her share of blessing in disguise.
Women having such cases couldn’t take so much guilt that they no longer need a full proof plan to hide their so-called evidence from the public. The news serves as our eye-witness to these crimes. Different footages are shown in television with a fetus curled inside a tight jar or worse, chopped into pieces then placed inside a box that was thrown together with our rotten waste.
Is this what those women are trying to convey? That life, especially if unwanted due to willed circumstances is as good as the rotten filth we threw out?
This may have been an over-used solution to this never ending problem, but still, even the most common solution is still difficult to follow. It’s a simple math of priorities they have to consider and the possible consequences attached to it. If the little voice is calling out “no”, then drop everything and stop. It’s the best way—the only way.
Everything now is boiled into the choices set. To summarize it all, the choices are only two: the bad and the good. People who’re guilty of such crime can no longer see the boundary between these choices. They just immediately go to whatever it is that can be an advantage to them. They’re like an open wound that’s desperately trying to look for alternatives just to cover up the cut. Human as we are, sometimes, we consider all things to be right according to how bad we need it for the sake of saving our dignity.
Consequences are meant for those who deserve them, and not those who were brought up because of ignorance. The thudding heart inside the bottle deserves to continue its life, and not to be put into waste just like the life of the person who gave it up because of a sudden mishap. (Cathleen Gail Lim is the Managing Editor of Ripples, Ateneo de Iloilo High School Paper.)