The deeply painful experience of losing a pregnancy changed the life of Lucía Mesones and showed him the way: “My mission is to work on the defense of life. It was very clear to me God making me go through the spontaneous abortion of my fifth son,” says the woman, who will present her book next Tuesday Love who thinks about abortion.
That duel that had to cross in 2019, led her to wonder how it was possible that, having everything – family, faith, support – she was so sad, and what would happen to women who have caused an abortion. “It is inevitable to think about that woman who caused him … because that wound will emerge sooner or later. It is impossible to go through this experience having set aside,” he says.
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From that moment on, Lucía began to instruct himself to give talks in schools, parishes and lay spaces. “We realized the lack of information in young people … The word abortion is fully censored, minimized, speaking of a” voluntary interruption of pregnancy ‘that we all know is not real. “
Even within the Church, he discovered misinformation and resistance: “The doors closed within the Catholic Church too. That was the most painful,” he admits to Aci Press, but recognizes that “that is the battle of the devil, who wants us to lower the arms, because it is one of her battles won: that a mother matches her own son is what he enjoys most.”
Since 2012, abortion is legal in Uruguay. However. Lucia denounces that women in their country do not receive complete information before aborting:
“You will know the truth and the truth will make you free. When they do not tell you the absolute truth of what you are going to live, they only tell you that you are going to go through a medical procedure and that nothing else will happen to you, that you will have menstrual pain and you will expel a cluster of cells, so you are not knowing the truth: they are pushing you to a single exit,” he says.
Lucia states that there is also a silence and lack of information about the Church, and she takes over: “I love the Church … but I make me blame because I am part of that silence for fear of causing an uncomfortable conversation, to generate a confrontation.”
From his personal experience, the route of training and accompaniment to vulnerable pregnancies through the Women’s Help Center Foundation, his first book emerged: Love who thinks about abortionwhich Lucia will present next Tuesday in Montevideo.
The title, Mesones details, was the work of the Holy Spirit. “The Holy Spirit wakes me up a morning … I grab the phone and write ‘love who thinks about abortion’. He even told me how to write it, put a big ‘love’ and ‘abortion’ to get attention,” he says.
“This book does is not judge,” he clarifies. Therefore, the approach is to love who thinks about abortion and who thought about abortion. “If you were already going through this, you have all the right of the world to amend that error and to be happy and not to scourge for something you did perhaps decades ago,” he says.
The book seeks to give information so that people can decide freely: “If someone is happening a vulnerable pregnancy and has a health problem, or on Down syndrome or some baby anomaly when it is in the belly, or in the case of a violation, which before making a decision at least has that true freedom because he had the option to choose Lucia.
All book profits will be allocated to the Women’s Aid Center, a foundation in which volunteers accompany women in vulnerability and pregnancies at risk.
The task that is done “is a super thorough job, very of God, very of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which is our patron saint and our boss in this battle,” he says. There is not only information, but also accompaniment during pregnancy and after birth. “Many babies are baptized … a whole conversion begins in the family following a yes to life,” he says.
Mesones acknowledges that he is not considered a professional communicator, but he sees his task as a call. “God gave it to me. Every day I ask the Holy Spirit to speak and not me, because if I speak, I’m going to put the leg. Whether he speaks, then I’m not going to mess up Never, ”he confesses.
Lucia dreams of a massive participation of young people in the defense of life: “I asked San Carlo Acutis to send us many young people because this is a mission that we have to instill all young people.”
The book is now available in e-book format in Amazon and in Libraries of Uruguay, and seeks to reach both Catholic libraries and secular from different countries. “I wanted it to be an easy book to read, accessible to a 12 -year -old boy, who attracts, not a giant thing.” The purpose, summarizes, is to “arouse consciousness, accompany and heal.”
The presentation will be on Tuesday, October 7 at 7:00 p.m. in the Catholic Club Hall (Cerrito 475, Montevideo). Admission is free and free. For consultations, communicate to (094) 578 885.
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Julieta Villar
I am a journalist, a graduate in Communication from the National University of La Matanza in Argentina. I have work experience in non -governmental organizations. Since 2016 I dedicate myself to Catholic journalism, first in the Argentine Catholic Information Agency (AICA) and, since 2022, as a correspondent for ACI Press for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia.