Missing Voices: Why some victims aren’t being heard
In 2015, two strangers met on London Bridge and one was able to talk the other out of taking a human life. As a nation we celebrated this. Documentaries were made, mental health issues became visible and relevant, we all wanted to help. Now in this country if this country if someone even offers to simply talk to another person considering taking a human life within the sacred abortion buffer zones they are likely to be criminalised.
The World is watching the UK. Global leaders are following the ludicrous ruling in the case of Livia Tossici-Bolt. This is not great news for the Government, even if they think the case is a victory for their selective human rights program. As someone once said, “if you’re taking flak, you’re over the target”. Here in Great Britain the issue of free speech is front and centre and as a result conversations are happening about abortion, and this is great news. It needs to be talked about, in depth and for what it is.
While many good conversations about abortion are happening this week in the UK there are some crucial voices missing, namely those of the ten million aborted babies in this country alone since it was legalised. We live in time when the voices of victims are supposed to be amplified, where the innocent are paraded in the headlines as the horrific cost of conflict, abuse and tragedy. We see various groups looking for relevance and attention in the hope of justice.
These millions of aborted babies need to be kept in the public eye too. We do this so well in the Pro-Life movement, but it should get the same coverage and debate as all the other causes we bring into schools, politics and legislation, here’s why. Deciding which humans get to live or die in a nation underpins everything else thereafter for that nation. Without this equal and absolute recognition of the intrinsic value of all humans from our conception means everything else is arbitrary and we end up building society on sand.
We know what a human being is and what we have done as a nation, and what we continue to do to these babies. And as a nation, we are doubling down on our disregard for the unborn and we think we’re making it easier to dispose of them by making harder for those who may want to talk about it. We are trying to silence our national conscience by trying to silence those who might prick it.
These lost babies exist in the darkest section of our nation’s memory as a statistic. They were dehumanised before their death and again afterwards as a “product of conception” in the specific and as “medical waste” in the general.
The thing is, they do not stay there. So many of us from across the nation over keep their memory in the light through their love and devotion to the cause and I wonder if the time has come to build a permanent memorial here in the UK to our lost babies. Despite their fulfilling every category required to qualify as human, innocent and absolutely vulnerable as well as part of our nation’s fabric we have no central place to remember them or to honour their loss as we do for other victims in society. Something like a destination shrine as a place to lay flowers and offer prayers, and importantly to be a constantly visual for the nation that we cannot forget them.
We bring the just cause of abortion to the nation at different times and places and formats, and we march in our thousands every year and this wonderful work must continue and increase. Maybe we can add to it with a shrine to the lost in a similar way we honour the memory of so many of our nation’s dead, whether through war, tragedy, martyrdom etc. in all fields. This concept exists in one form here www.memorialfortheunborn.org in Tennessee or in Bromley on a more local level with www.amberpregnancy.com
Maybe we can build something for them. A physical structure in a physical place that belongs to their memory and what happened to them. This could be a unifying place for the whole Movement as well as being a visual thorn in the conscience of our nation while the conversation about abortion continues. Then one day when gaze on this memorial for the unborn we can at the same time we remember the day the killing stopped.
Daniel: March for Life UK Content Creator
