By Abdu Rafiu
The controversy in the United States over women’s right to terminate a pregnancy was given fresh impetus last Friday when her House of Representatives sought to overturn the Supreme Court ruling on the subject last month. That court had spiked its decision of 50 years under which expectant mothers could shelter to do away with their pregnancies if they so wished. The conflict on abortion is as old as perhaps the emergence of man, but sharpened and shot sky-high by the modern man after the scale dropped from his eyes to recognise the inherent and inalienable rights of freedom of decision and choice. As I did state in my earlier intervention, ammunition in the armoury of abortion seekers and campaigners is a woman’s right to do whatever she likes with her body. It is the salvo from girls; it is a battle over which multitudes of women would not yield ground. The armoury boasts of no new argument in weaponry. The same old hat and the same beaten track should any dissenting voice ring out. It is an unceasing clash between the progressives and libertarian movements on the one hand and the conservatives who on to the pristine values the founding fathers of America hold dear. Three weeks ago, the Supreme Court reversed its 1973 decision which gave women who might wish for it lawful access cover. The sheltered access flowed from the pronouncement on Roe v. Wade but the opportunity for overturning came in the matter between Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This is to say, the pro-life campaigners were never in the mood to surrender.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill to protect access to abortion and with nation-wide application. According to the House the bill is intended to preserve protections in Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court. In the words of the sponsor, according to an online report, “The Women’s Health Protection Act is the bill that will protect the right to access abortion after the tragic fall of Roe v. Wade. It ensures in federal law the right to abortion care for every woman in every state and ensures states may not erode that right. You will hear Republicans say our bill goes too far, but that’s simply not true. Our bill preserves the protections of Roe that we’ve lived with for 50 years, affirmed through decades of subsequent court decisions.”
There is a touching counter-argument made by a Republican Rep. According to the online report, she said the debate on abortion is “the human rights issue of our generation,” describing the Women’s Health Protection Act as extreme. She went on: “The abortion on demand until birth act has nothing to do with protecting the health of women. It has everything to do with forcing an extreme agenda on American people. Rather than prey on women’s vulnerabilities and fears and nationalize abortion for all nine months, we should be coming together to support women and their families at every stage of pregnancy and beyond.” The stage is set and the battle line is drawn between the Federal authorities and the states. It remains to be seen how the states of Texas and Oregon will take it. Fortunately the Senate, where the Democrats and the Republicans are equally matched, is yet to take a position. There the Republicans are all likely to be on the same page and speak with one voice. A few of the Democrats are likely to break ranks with their fellow party men on the issue as was witnessed in the House even though the pro-abortion forces carried the day.
In my intervention two weeks ago, I argued that foetus is life and it is not a sack of tissues which are disposable at the whim of a young girl or the caprices of a tired expectant mother. I did state that since the foetus is life, getting rid of it is dastardly murder and hopes dashed, hope of the baby; and nonsense is made of the work of helpers, the elemental beings involved in the elaborate activities of fashioning the astral body model, the version of what the growing body will be like; as well as weaving the baby’s fine threads of fate connected with the soul, its balance sheet showing credit and debit. In doing so there is no possibility of an error by the elemental beings in their weaving. They work in perfection and absolute loyalty in the service of the Most High. In any case, it is the soul itself that supplies the threads which it has gathered in the course of its wanderings. It is after they fashion the prototype body that the fertilized egg begins to split, forming tissues, organs, systems, and connecting channel between the soul and the prospective mother, and so on. In other words bringing a unilateral end to these elaborate activities and processes will hurt many helpers and people in the chain.
A child whose hope nourished for hundreds of years has been dashed, may seek revenge if it is not mature and unforgiving. It may block the man or the woman’s chances or a couple’s at childbearing, to deny them of the prized joy of having and carrying babies in their arms. It may even, in that state of immaturity, decide to waste its own time by awaiting them in the beyond to settle scores. Other souls will avoid the woman each time she is expectant as they never know what she may be up to, for she may decide to terminate the pregnancy at any time. They keep safely away, which unknown to a great many, could be a cause of infertility, primary or secondary. The cases of men who encourage or push women, subtle or direct; abortion providers; doctors and nurses and all to terminate pregnancies are no better. For a doctor who has helped girls and women to abort their pregnancies, in another earth-life, he will be born in communities where having hordes of children is celebrated and specially capped with an award of medals. In such a community not having children raises eyebrows, and is ridiculed, considered as an abomination. Such a man or doctor will have irresistibly attracted to himself only a long queue of ladies who in previous earth-lives had terminated pregnancies. He will not have a stable marriage nor will the ladies do. They will hop from one home to another in search of beneficial union and in search of babies and also because they are unable to bear gossips in the neighbourhood, wrinkling of faces and disapproving and mocking stares. Each of the marriages the abortion provider may contract will crash on account of childlessness. Even if he flees from the community, the threads of fate will go with him; he cannot run away from consequences of his actions which he has now long forgotten. In the end, out of extreme desperation, he may commit suicide which makes matters worse for him as suicide is a separate crime altogether which attracts severe consequences in the beyond. Women have been known to steal babies from their cots in hospitals or commit suicide, too.
A lady who aborts her pregnancy has no doubt also annulled the possibility of the redemption of her karma through the genuine love, understanding, care and worries, sickness of the baby and anxieties and joys and happiness which the upbringing of a child entails. What with the shining eyes and smiles of the baby. What with its delightful cries in a stranger’s arms but a joy and pride to a mother. With such care and love, and noble heart, spiritual progress is made. Abortion is certainly not a case of loving one’s neighbour as oneself in the chain of events it has the possibility to unleash. The unborn child in the beyond hovering over its prospective mother for incarnation is a neighbour. This, however, is still an understatement of the poison this even spreads in the Beyond. Can the nature beings who have laboured to fashion a human body a feat no man can ever achieve be happy, for instance? What happened on Golgotha is a classical example,: nature beings tending the earth made the earth to quake; those that harness the radiations of spirit motes concentrated in inapproachable bowl of heat known as the sun darkened it at high noon in anger, luminous hands tore into shreds the blind shielding the Holy of Holies in the Temple, indicating the termination of the Covenant the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Most High God, sealed with mankind. And, as reported, the people, afraid fell on their faces.
What then is the direct beyond-the-earthly consequences of an abortion for the would-be mother? We learn in higher knowledge available on the face of the earth in these times that the ethereal body of the baby whose journey to the earth has been peremptorily terminated hangs on the ethereal neck of its unnatural mother. The said mother may not feel anything by way of the weight of the child’s body for as long as she lives on earth. Occasionally if she is open, and through the pangs of conscience she may feel certain uneasiness every now and then in reaction to her deed, but not yet the ethereal weight. The ethereal weight is as light as a feather in the density of the physical neck of the mother. The ethereal world is where the soul lives after the exit from the earth. There nothing done on earth is lost as it has every activity recorded minutely and impartially and indeed as seed tended by the nature beings. As soon as the woman lays aside her physical body upon her exit, she strikes the same ethereal weight and density with the baby clinging to her neck because they are now of the same nature. That body clings to her neck everywhere and in whatever activity she may undertake in the ethereal world. This becomes a burden and an intolerable irritation she will not know how to detach from her neck. The situation can be agonizing and desperate as it is an unspeakable torment and hindrance. It is now the true weight of the baby’s body that is experienced. It can be likened to a baby in the physical hanging around the neck of its mother that she is unable to dislodge. In the ethereal, the mother is not released from her agony until she comes to the recognition of her crime first to the baby and mother love awakens in her and like she would do on earth, setting aside her own comfort, begins to labour, to care and worry, and faithfully look after the little baby’s body. Indeed, it is as many bodies as the number of pregnancies a girl or woman terminated that will hang on her. If two or three times, it is the burden of two or three bodies she will grapple with, hanging on her neck. Nothing can be remitted her. These will be visible to her as they are to her neighbours. The ethereal burdens of her neighbours, too, will similarly be visible to her as they move about or gather. It is such a horror, crushing and breath-taking torment.
The burden is in fact similar to that of a woman who commits suicide by drowning and she carries her little child to death with her. Because the baby, out of justice, will not be punished for an offence she did not commit, although the child is seemingly in her hand, it is not the child itself that is clinging to her arms, but her own volition that has taken on a living form, a phantom that at the same time issued from showers of her intuitive perception. It is the exact picture of the murdered child. The baby itself is gamboling merrily in sunny meadows or refreshing goggling brooks.
In the times in which we are, ignorance of what goes on in life-here-after, in the beyond, can no longer be excusable on the part of mankind. There is higher knowledge now spreading on earth; there are accounts by the departed who on getting to the beyond have sought to help their fellow men back here on earth. One of such literature was popularized in Nigeria by Chief Obafemi Awolowo on the occasion of the celebration of his birthday. The book was “Life After Life” by Dr. Raymond Moody. Chief Awolowo had read the review of the book in The Times of London. It was believed that he had perhaps begun to receive indefinable signals many thought were characteristic of premonition about his imminent departure from this earth. He spoke about the book and sought to have a copy to read. The book details experiences of those who were taken for dead but who came back to life. There is also the book “More About Life in the World Unseen” by Anthony Borga. There is “How is it that we Live after Death and What is the Meaning of Life” by Dr. Richard Steinpach. There is yet “A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands”. “More about Life in the World Unseen” is an account by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, son of a former Archbishop of Canterbury, of his experiences in the Beyond. Said a character, one of the people Monsignor Benson encountered in the ethereal world: “When I lived on earth, Roger, I was a successful businessman. Business was my preoccupation in life, for I thought of precious little else in my dealings with others, and I considered all means right provided such means were strictly legal. As long as they were that, I deemed the rest did not matter. I was ruthless therefore in gaining my ends, and coupled with a high degree of efficiency, I achieved great commercial success.” When he died, the account states: “I awoke to find myself in the dirtiest, wretchedest hovel you can imagine. The very clothes I was wearing were threadbare and soiled. In this dingy hole I found myself, smouldering with rage that I should, in some inconceivable fashion, have been reduced to such a state of squalor. I didn’t seem able to leave the premises; I felt glued to the house. I gazed out of the windows, and could see nothing but barren ground, with a belt of mist far away. A grim, dismal outlook, in a literal sense. I stormed and raved and it was in this situation that Edwin found me.”
There are more accounts of unimaginable torment and for thousands of years in the dungeon of the Dark Region in some other publications. These are instructive drawing attention to the imperative of our worrying about where our paths lead us when we step out of this earth. Is the path leading to joyful activities and happiness or to torment and sorrow? Is it to salvation or to damnation? What I am getting at is to draw attention to the treasure and help with which mankind is, in love, availed today in the fashioning of our respective fate here and in life here after.
The Lagos smart guy
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, did well in suspending the 40-page guidelines titled “Lagos State Guidelines on Safe Termination of Pregnancy for Legal Indications.” Lagosians also have the Roman Catholic Church of Lagos to thank for its alertness. The guide document, Health Commissioner Prof. Akin Abayomi said, had been painstakingly put together over four years by experts in law and obstetrics and gynaecology. It is aimed at creating the opportunity to reduce maternal mortality. The commissioner said that the ministry was “seeking different methods to eliminate illegal abortions and ensure that a mother does not die at childbirth, thereby disrupting an entire family unit”. The government is suspending the implementation of the guidelines “for the Executive Council to deliberate on this matter and ensure adequate public sensitization and stakeholder engagement to reach a consensus required for a successful guideline development.”
The Catholic Church is unimpressed; it sees the guidelines as legislation through the back door. Catholic Church Archbishop Adewale Martins shooting down the document was curious that the state government was anxious “to legalize abortion” at a time the United States and some other advanced countries were reviewing their positions on legalization of abortion. The Archbishop said in a statement: “The Catholic Church and all ethically-minded people oppose all forms of abortion procedure whose direct purpose is to terminate the life of a baby in the womb. The unborn child has the right to live and be protected and not to be killed by the fiat of an unjust law.”
Everywhere, when abortion issue is on the cards for discussion, the concern is centered on only the health and life of the expectant mother. No thought is spared on the life and health of the unborn baby. This means if we go by the insistence of the pro-abortion forces and promoters, the life of the baby is expendable while that of the mother must be protected! How obtuse and cruel man can be to a neighbour that every baby is, born or on the way! It is a classic case of the proverbial man’s inhumanity to man.
It is commendable that the governor is giving the subject a second thought. It is not everything that may be popular and looks harmless on the surface that is right and without grave consequences!
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