THE idea that dangerous back alley abortions are the only alternatives to legalized abortion is one of the left’s most pernicious and evil lies. Writing in response to this excellent entry at VFR on abortion as “a form of child sacrifice” (see Thomas F. Bertonneau’s outstanding commentary), Vincent C. writes:

I wanted to mention two separate scenarios once used to deal with unwanted, but not aborted, births that may interest your readers.

Near the main church in Segovia, Spain, is a convent of cloistered nuns, although given Spain’s apostasy, I am not sure that it still exists. As one entered the convent, and I was fortunate enough to do so, I was shown a corridor that was windowless, and at the end of it was a door that opened up to what appears to be a huge lazy Susan device. Whenever a child was brought to the convent, whether by its natural mother or a surrogate, the procedure was the same: the child, wrapped in swaddling clothes, was put on the lazy Susan, and at the instruction of the voice of the nun on the other side of this screened partition, then the child was turned on lazy Susan. The donor and the recipient never saw each other, but from that moment, the child, probably a girl, now lived under the direction of the nuns, never knowing her biological parents.

The Vatican correspondent of the Naples daily, Il Mattino, told me this story.

In both northern and southern Italy, unwanted or illegitimate children were left in church squares or piazzas; they were never aborted. In Naples, for example, they were left, in Mosaic fashion, in baskets amongst the Sunday worshippers. In short, they were “exposed” to the Church congregations of the area, and not families. In Milan, similarly unwanted children were also left in church piazzas, abortion being a cardinal sin and unheard of, especially near the Duomo (or cathedral) of Milan. In the case of those of from the south, because they were “exposed,” these children were baptized with the name, Esposito, a surname that adorns many a household today. In the north, because these children were often found amongst large numbers of “columbini” (doves) in the church piazza, they were often baptized with the name, Columbo, a name that may ring a bell.

The descent into the rampant barbarism that is described almost daily in the pages of this website validate what those who saw the horrible damage that Roe would do the our society. To provide legal sanction for the death of an innocent is prima facie evidence of a society incapable of moral rectitude, and all of the subsequent statutes we enact cannot and will not succeed if we remain a morally bankrupt people. Samuel Adams said it far better than I can: Neither the wisest Constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty or happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

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