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Grizzly Bear, song by Army Recuerdos
Written & Produced by Brian Michael Smith
Copyright, 2005 Enlisted Records

Intro: 
Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you (Jeremiah 1-5) 
 
Chorus: 
The grizzly bear is huge and wild 
It has devoured the infant child 
The infant child is not aware 
It has been eaten by the bear 
 
Verse: 
Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me. Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again? Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care has preserved my spirit (Job 10:8-12). 
 
Yet thou art he who took me from the womb; thou didst keep me safe upon my mother’s breasts. Upon thee was I cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me, thou hast been my God. Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is none to help (Ps 22:9-11). 
 
For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well; my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them (Ps 139:15). 
 
The Lord’s Teaching to the Heathen by the Twelve Apostles: There are two ways, one of life and one of death; and between the two ways there is a great difference. Now, this is the way of life: “First, you must love God who made you, and second, your neighbor as yourself,” do not murder a child by abortion or kill an new born infant (Didache). 
 
For God, the Lord of life, has conferred on men the surpassing ministry of safeguarding life in a manner which is worthy of man. Therefore, from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes (GS 51). 
 
The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation (CCC 2273). Thus, an act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering constitutes a murder gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator (CCC 2277).