"No birth happens suddenly, but only after a necessary time of gestation and gradual preparation ..... The world is being reborn, generation by generation, and God's creation shows in trimesters of conception and gestation, our shared future dancing in the womb, eager to be born."

Some life is willfully ended in the womb. As we celebrate Advent, we should keep in mind what our "modern" world would do to a child in the womb of a poor, unmarried, teenage girl in a third world country.