There were two couples who lived only a couple of blocks from each other. The younger couple had three children and the wife developed brain cancer. It was pretty aggressive. She was soon in a wheelchair. The husband said: Whoa, this is too stressful! This isn't what I bargained for! I can't handle this!" He walked away and left her for someone else and abandoned her.
In the other couple's situation the mother developed a very aggressive form of MS. And soon SHE was in a wheelchair. Her husband was in the prime of his career. You know what HE did? He walked away from his career to care for his wife as she was dying over the next few years. He just wanted to give his life to caring for his wife. He knew he would have to start all over again after she died but he said: "This is my bride!" He had to do all the cooking and cleaning of the house. He would feed her as she couldn't feed herself. He bathed her and cared for her as her condition deteriorated. He couldn't even talk to his own wife. He would take her for walks around the neighborhood, pushing her around. She couldn't lift her head up. She couldn't talk. Her head would droop and she would drool. Can you imagine that? He couldn't even carry on a conversation with the love of his life.
We should celebrate such people of character and virtue. Such Love is TRUE freedom.
Our culture says: "No one is better than another. It is a distorted and twisted view of freedom that prevails in our culture now that says "Freedom is just to do as you wish!" Which of these two men is a slave and which is truly free and liberated? It is very empowering for a person to do what is best for the other. "No greater love has anyone than this, than to lay down one's life for their Friend."
Whenever I hear a woman compare her baby to a parasitic Leach and how it is anological to slavery to have to carry that baby to term and how it's her right and privilege to abandon that baby to abortion I'm reminded of the first character in this story.