Consider this story from American magazine Reader's Digest in July 1991. In New York in the 1950's, a three-year-old boy named Joey and his older brother would visit a neighbor woman named Catuzza who was pregnant. As children sometimes like to do, the boys would touch the woman's big belly and feel the baby kicking inside.
When Joey was nearly 40 years old, he faced a life-threatening condition. A good doctor treated Joey, and he lived. Later, Joey's brother noticed the last name of the doctor, and said this: "Only then did the realization hit me. The unborn baby who had kicked inside Catuzza all those years before on Irving Street had grown up to be the doctor who saved my brother's life".
Respecting the lives of children in the womb might someday save the lives of those already born. For the childrens' sake, for the mothers' sake, and even for our own sake, let us reject abortion and build a culture of life and love.
