Fine piece except for your denigration of adoption.  women don’t “give up their babies.”  They make adoption plans for their children.  You are pro-life, commendably, but you obviously know nothing about adoption and that is offensive.

James,

I disagree with you.  I would say that Matthew knows something about adoption.  In fact, I would say one of the most enjoyable things about reading the Archibolds is that they opt out of political rhetoric.  They just very straightforwardly call reality what it is.  This is perhaps why they seldom offer apologies.  Reality is reality, whether we choose to join in or not.  You can dress the language up as you wish it does not change the nature of the act.  The act is admirable for sure.  Carrying the child to term is a very admirable and virtuous choice.  But, there is another choice which must be made once the child is born.  The question one must ask oneself, is am I selfless enough to give my life to this child?  Am I responsible for this child?  Do I trust that as God has given me this gift he will provide for the two of us.  Every action has a consequence, just because the consequence is difficult is no reason for us to run from it.  Our culture hates hard things and we surely do not like to have them pointed out to us forthrightly. 

My guess, is Matthew, like myself has a ton of respect for a woman who carries her child to term and opts out of abortion.  Once, you get there, it’s time to work on responsibility and conversion. The truth is and it is hard to hear, that while there may be making “adoption plans” those plans are essentially to severe their life from the child whom they bore.  Those plans are to give the responsibility of their free choice to have sex, get pregnant, and have a child away to someone else.  I get that it’s “hard”.  Growing in virtue always is.

This has been the smartest piece I have read on any site! This is completly true and I will be sharing this and reposting this time and time again!I completely agree with Matthew Archbold

Thanks…

James: Pax.  I don’t think the writer’s intent was to denigrate adoption.  Your words have a nicer ring to them, but the term “gave the baby up for adoption” is pretty ubiquitous idiomatic expression.  God bless you for your stance on life.

Mr. Archbold: Loved the commentary. Thanks!

I was adopted (at birth). I always say my mother gave me up for adoption… I don’t see it as a derogatory phrase. My mother sacrificed her family to bring me into the world. She stayed at a Catholic Birthright center so she could carry me to term. I’ll probably never know her, but knowing now how “easy” it would have been to just have an abortion (her parents pushed her to), she has an immense place in my heart.

A “clump of cells” huh?

Tragic…

AMEN! couldn’t have said it better myself. you are truly inspiring in speaking out for life. I have shared this with friends.

they can advocate for abortion, and call it a “good” choice all they want, but when it comes down to it they are cowards who won’t show it on TV, because they know if they did, people would see it for what it really is; MURDER.

I’ll stop supporting abortion when “God Fearing Christians” agree to have no more than two kids in their lifetime. To see show like 19 and counting and people with 7-8-9 kids just makes me sick. We talk about saving the environment, fixing the economy, lowering unemployment, but yet we have people produce hordes of children that will just add to the strain on each of those problems.

I don’t know if you’ve ever read/seen freak-o-nomics, but they had a very good section on abortion. Basically, legalizing abortion caused a massive drop in crime in the 1990’s due to the fact that those unwanted children were around when they would have reach the prime age to commit crime.

In the end, it’s a choice. Like it or not not everyone is religious or believes that same things you do. If you don’t want to have an abortion, that’s your right. Don’t go telling people what they should or shouldn’t do with their lives.

Vince you have bought the entire framework of lies hook, line, and sinker.  Your incoherent rant put forth as rational thought is the result of what our liberal education is doing to young minds.

Couples with children “make you sick,” yet you’re fine with slaughtering the unborn in the womb. 

You put forth killing people as a solution (one might say the “final solution”) to saving the environment (which is fine by the way), fixing the economy, and lowering unemployment.

Legalizing abortion caused a drop in crime in the 90’s because the children that were killed would have been criminals?

All of this seems reasonable to you.  You have not been taught to critically think and you have willingly swallowed all the lies the leftists have spoon fed you with since first grade.

Mr. Archbold,

very good comment!

I’m quibbling over something relatively minor, but I’m quibbling.  My kids are adopted.  When they think about their birth moms “giving them up” they feel a disrespect and anger for her, and they understand their own value less.  Sean, I’m glad the term doesn’t bother you, but it does bother a lot of kids, and it shouldn’t be a “ubiquitous idiomatic expression.”  Ron, you’re not worth responding to.

But overall, obviously, the piece is fantastic.  Its important, however, that we really support and understnad adoption if we’re serious about stopping abortion.

@ James—I can see how adopted kids could take offense at that term, that’s true. I guess ‘giving up’ sounds similar to ‘offer up’ in my head, and I know my mother both offered up and gave up a lot to carry me into this world.

It’s not quibbling, it’s a good point.

All the best!

Great article and true.

“Choice”, huh?

Didn’t people also have a choice when choosing Barrabas over Jesus?

I don’t believe he was denigrating adoption. It is not as if adopted kids are dumped in a dumpster and people walk by and select them. The parents that give up a child for adoption make a conscious decision to give their child a hopefully better life than they could have provided. The problem with playing the Political Correctness game is eventually the PC term becomes “tainted” too. You’re always having to create new terms as not to offend someone. If your adopted child has problems with having been “given up”, maybe you should tell him or her what the alternatives were. One of them would have resulted in their death.

Matt:  You’re article really exposes the truth about pro-abortionists.  If they have to admit they are killing an unborn child, then they have to admit it is murder.  Their whole philosophy, ideology and mental universe would then come crashing down upon them. They know in their hearts it is wrong, they lie to others to hide the lie to themselves.  Chesterton said it perfectly:  Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they’ve become fashion.

Paz de Cristo

Dear God, reading Vince is not only shocking but sickening. The most horrifying reality is that his is the reasoning and thinking of the Merchants of Death.  Not only do they champion abortions,pre-birth abortions, euthanasia, homosexuality and lesbianism and all the other bestialities, they are gleeful that AIDS was manufactured in a Factory to bring about the “good” he is so fanatically advocating of killing the unwanted and the undesirables.  He approves playing God and deciding those who are “fit to be allowed to live and those who must never be allowed to be born - and if they dare to be born, then they must be eliminated enmasse”.  Hitler mass genocide all over again. Yet the answer is so simple really.  If you do not want to get pregnant, stay away from sex.  You will not die without it. However, should one find herself in the situation of Sean V Cleary’s Mum, she does the right thing because she loves her baby and ensures that God’s Precious Gift is given the best care and love the Creator desired when He created that Life.  And may I disabuse Vince’s warped opinion by telling him that those families with 6,7,8 or 9 kids - though poor they may be - are the happiest. I state this authoritatively because I know it to be true since I am from Kenya where large families are a blessing. It is in those homes with many children where you shall find true love and joy and the meaning of life.  But sadly that is unacceptable to the Nations that have kicked God out of their midst and enthroned Satan as their god.  But we must never stop fighting and should continue to strongly oppose this evil always and everywhere. These Satan’s Agents will one day stand before the Judgement Seat of God and answer for the millions of His beloved whom they callously murdered.  And, as I stated, elsewhere, those souls shall be their accusers. So,Vince, your day of reckoning, along with your comrades who think, believe and carry out these horrendous MURDERS is drawing nigh by the day.

Vince, to restate your last two sentences in a couple of different ways:
“If you don’t want to rape women, that’s your right. Don’t go telling people what they should or shouldn’t do with their lives.”
“If you don’t want to steal, that’s your right. Don’t go telling people what they should or shouldn’t do with their lives.”
“If you don’t want to hunt endangered animals, that’s your right. Don’t go telling people what they should or shouldn’t do with their lives.”
Heck, you’d probably get in more legal trouble for that last one than any of the others.  In any case, logic is absent in your argument, since it ignores the injury to the other party…the unborn baby.

That’s exactly what I’v been thinking for years - we’ve seen open heart surgery, eye surgery, open tummy surgery you name it, we’ve seen it but never, ever an abortion. I can only conclude that it would simply be the most upseting piece of television ever. Abortion would be outlawed overnight.Glad you made the point - Blessings - Rene

All that people care about nowadays are feelings and rights. People have forgotten about the most important reason we are alive: to love.

This morning I watched a youtube video of an actual abortion being done on a little boy- quite literally butchery, horrific. I post the link below. I felt it was my duty to watch it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nff8I2FVnI

Thank you, Matthew A. Siekierski and Mrs. Rene O’Riordan for appropriately responding to Vince.  The Death Merchants must ensure we do not see exactly what happens inside the mother’s womb when abortion is in progress. Last year, when the Catholic Church led the campaign against the inclusion of “Reproductive Health” Clause - another word for abortion on demand - in New Constitution here in Kenya, the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission showed a video on actual abortion “The Silent Scream”. It was horrifying to see an instrument inside the womb catching a little hand and cutting if off. We saw the infant opening its mouth and actually screaming in pain. Next they cut a leg, then the other hand and the second leg.  In the end they cut the head. The video shows the Doctor holding each piece in his hand. The sight of the little head with the eyes still open and the other tiny and bloody body pieces, made all of us in the Hall weep.  the pain and horror was excruciating. But because Obama, his Government and the Planned Parenthood made sure the Church’s objection to the Abortion Clause - which the Planned Parenthood had sent to the Committee of Experts on the Constitution was not deleted, the Catholic Church was accused of lying.  As a result,this abominable Clause is now part of our new Constitution under the Protected Human Rights Clauses which can never be amended unless we conduct another referendum. This was done deliberately, and the Yes Campaign was heavily financed by the American Government, to ensure their evil Agenda succeeded and that this evil Provision was not deleted from the draft Constitution. That is the Culture of Death Obama has rammed down our throats.  The reality of the calamity we have brought upon our land under the pressure of the American Government is just beginning to dawn on Kenyans and they are horrified.  These Abortion Videos must be posted on as many Websites as possible for people to see the horrible truth. But, of course, the Pro-choice and Merchants of Death fanatics will holler to the high heavens because they want to ensure this Murder Most Foul is not viewed and understood for what it is. The most evil assault on humanity and God Himself who is the Author of Life.

Mary 42 wrote: These Abortion Videos must be posted on as many Websites as possible for people to see the horrible truth.

Just want to share that Fr. Frank Pavone and Priests for Life have been saying and doing this.

Check out the website.  You will learn much more on how to be active in defending ALL human life.

God bless you Father Pavone and Priests for Life.

For what it’s worth, back in the 70’s Phil Donohue televised a live abortion. My mother wouldn’t let me watch. She said it made her sick to her stomach.

Both sides lie.  No one tells you about the emotional and sometimes physical consequences of having an abortion.  It never goes away, even if you tell yourself you “don’t feel it” or repent.  So let’s say you keep your child and decide to raise it on your own.  Well, don’t think you can get on welfare to help raise the child.  If you put the child up for adoption and the child is not adopted they will also have an unstable life.

Everyone should know the good, bad and the ugly before engaging in sex, most importantly, if you don’t want a child don’t have sex.  As someone stated earlier you can live without it.

Dear Vince I prayed for your soul today.