It was March 16th of 2006, and I was looking at my newborn, premature son in the neo-natal intensive care unit.   I prayed to God with all my might that he would be alright and make it through.

As he lay in his incubator taking 160 breaths every minute to stay alive, I looked at him with such love.  I reached into his incubator and touched his hair and listened to the cries that he pushed out with his breaths.  I saw his chin dimple, his perfect toes, his perfect eyes, his perfect chest and his perfectly formed body.  Despite the stress of the situation, I beamed with the joy of being a new dad.

My son was breathing without any help.  He was looking around, crying, cooing, and looking for milk that could help to sustain him.  As my son reached for my hand in his incubator and grabbed my pinky finger, I silently wept with an overwhelming love for him and a burning desire to protect him from any harm.

Just a few months later, I heard a Supreme Court Justice by the name of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg and attorneys on behalf of Planned Parenthood arguing within the United States Supreme Court that all unborn children should be allowed to be killed before they had a chance at life.  I heard scholars and doctors of the law argue that my son, ­ even as he was old enough to look into my eyes and hold my hand,­ was not worthy of his own life so as long as he was within his mother’s womb.

Ruth Bader-Ginsburg argued for unfettered rights to abortion during all 9 months of pregnancy, and she argued that the Federal ban on partial-birth abortion be declared unconstitutional.  Thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg was in the minority and Partial-Birth Abortion is now illegal within the United States.  Yet, abortion is still legal in all 9 months of pregnancy, and every day the lives of little kids like my son are snuffed out even when the child is old enough to yearn to be held by his mother.

God have mercy on those beautiful pre-born children and may God have mercy on a country that has so great a calling yet has still failed to protect the weakest among us.