Even a child, whether or not given a choice, can in some way defend themselves…can put up something of a fight…
But a newborn…whose only instinct is to trust…is sold: not only helpless but oblivious, naïve, innocent and unaware.
Last week at the home I volunteer at, one of the women I had just done a prenatal on gave birth…we found out a few days later that the baby had been sold. The very same baby I had just felt between my hands…cradled safely in his mothers womb as he anticipated the first time he would see his mothers face. The very same baby I had quietly prayed over in my mind as I gently checked his position and reassured his mother that all was well. The very same baby whose heart beat danced to a drum and brought delight to his mother as she listened…her head tilted tentatively as she strained to hear it then eyes came to life and she beamed with timid joy when she recognized its sound.. .
And we both smiled as we marvelled…at life. At this little ones life and the miracle it represented.
But was I a fool?…ignorant in this moment of one of life’s few remaining untainted and pure pleasures…seeing things only as they should be, how they would be…if not for corruption, desperation, injustice, poverty and greed. I do not and can in no way judge her as a mother…for who am I to say that I fully understand her plight, her desperation, her rationale.
But still, my heart grieves for the little one…and it is true, I do not understand. I will never understand. Because this injustice can never be justified.
The baby boy was found to have a hole in his heart and was sold for $300 to a man that promised to arrange for a surgery. But I was also told of the horrendous reality that is more often the case in this repeated scenario. I cannot even find it in myself to write them here.
Rather than point a finger or evaluate where lies the blame my response and responsibility is to offer the women that this mother represents alternatives to trafficking…alternatives to abortion…
If not for this one I never actually met…
Then for all the others he represents that are sold every day.
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