The top cause of death in our country today

Not heart disease, or something else W.H.O. may say

It’s tragic that few in our world know the fact

[It’s censored], the commonmost violent act

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The deathtoll throughout the whole world every day

Will never be seen in the news, nope, no way

The scope of [it’s censored] is HUGE I profess

Before I reveal, why don’t you take a guess

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[It’s censored] kills daily a hundred and twenty

Now add three more zeros, yes, so very many (1)

And this does not count unseen victims that die

Through hormonal drugs found in ready supply (2)

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But what about stats in the U.S. of A.

[It’s censored] snuffs thousands of lives every day

A holocaust hidden from cam’ras and news

The fruit of the lust those same cam’ras enthuse

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Christ calls us to speak up for those with no voice

To challenge with prudence and love the “pro-choice”

Do we understand that this “choice”, it destroys

With violence and blood, little girls, little boys

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The tools “doctors” use would make anyone shudder

Blades cutting, dismemb’ring; small hearts stop their flutter

And whether they feel it or not, does it matter?

God’s children are murdered; our hearts, do they shatter?

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Besides these small victims, their fathers and mothers

Are victims as well! For their love this choice smothers

Through couns’ling and prayer, Jesus heals their raw pain

Forgives all who ask Him, and wipes out their shame

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[It’s censored], “The greatest destroyer of peace”

Says Mother Teresa! But when will it cease?

Just what can abolish this heinous, child-killing

Which lines greedy pockets with many a schilling

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Lord, how can we help the unborn in their plight

Evangelization is key in the fight

Without knowing Christ and his love, joy, and peace

Society molds us and [censored]s increase

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“But won’t contraception reduce this sad killing?”

No; studies have shown that it makes folks more willing

For condoms and pills can throw gas on the flame

Encouraging unmarried sex without shame

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Because it’s so easy to get contraception

Adultery spikes, then divorce and deception

Next, poverty follows, more fatherless youth

Demand for [it’s censored] then grows, that’s the truth!

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[It’s censored] is sought e’en by folks “on the fence”

When birth control fails, [censored] seems to make sense

This “choice” is made often with pressure from men

Who use and abuse… and then pressure again

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The teachings of Christ which His Church is proclaiming

Are antidotes sure to this too-frequent maiming

Pope Paul’s famous document,“Of Human Life”(3)

Unmasks many lies, changes minds, halts the knife

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Saint Mother Teresa was never afraid

To speak up for life, her conviction conveyed

She challenges us, as does many-a pope

To pray before Christ in the Eucharist- our Hope

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The cure for [it’s censored] is penance and prayer

In visits to Christ in the Host, which is where

His Beating Heart waits for us; always He’s there

Such visits, and Masses, melt hearts that don’t care

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We mustn’t neglect heartfelt prayer to our Mary

The Patroness of the unborn mothers carry

Our heavenly Queen’s intercession we plead

Her pray’rs vanquish Satan who strives to mislead

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But pray’r must not ever become an excuse

To loaf in the comforts of home, which seduce

Our hands, voices, voting must protest this killing

“The least of [Christ’s] brethren” cry out! Are we willing?

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So let’s start up groups at our churches and schools

To educate folks (who may think we are fools)

To pray and speak lovingly at [censored] centers

Remembering always… it’s Jesus who enters

 

(1)Guttmacher Institute’s “Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide” reports 43,800,000 abortions worldwide in 2008; to determine the average daily abortion rate (120,000), this number was divided by 365

(2)Like the pill, patch, etc.

(3) Humanae Vitae