However, Catholic rap artist Alvaro Vega has recently dropped a new track that sheds light on the true aspects of abortion and underscores the gravity of this life-altering choice. The song, which is titled “Blood Cries Out." follows the story of two women, one who chooses to keep their child and one who doesn't.
From Lifesite:
One would have cured cancer and saved her own mother’s life had she not been aborted. Another, a teenage girl, wrestles with the possibility of ending her unwanted pregnancy before realizing the alternative of adoption.
“Her name was Eva, a masterful surgeon,” Communion begins the song, describing the first character as a well-liked and “spectacular person” who spent 30 years in research before discovering a cure for cancer. The miraculous development saved “billions” of lives, including her mother, who is described as suffering from stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“She was answer to prayers, a chosen soul
God had sent her, but her story was never told
Unfortunately, her life was tragically shortened
It never happened because Eva was aborted”
The refrain continues with a chilling reminder that the “blood cries out” from “every life that’s torn apart.” While an ultrasound image is shown in the video, the song lyrics go on to say that “we can’t trade love for violence, and these babies won’t stay silent.”
The second verse follows another character, a 15-year-old high school student named Lupita who conceived a child with “the boy of her dreams” — a senior who walked away from her upon learning of the pregnancy. The song then describes the young mother’s struggle with “depression and panic,” taking a school nurse’s advice to go to an abortion center and wrestling with her Christian beliefs and what “Planned Parenthood told her … was her decision.”
“She was on the fence, the night before she had a dream
That she killed her baby boy, and she could hear him scream
The next day a sidewalk counselor told her there’s a better option
Now there’s hope she might give her baby up for adoption”
After the second verse, Communion sings that “God stands ready” to forgive women who have had abortions, saying He “knows your pain and understands everything that you’re feeling.” However, after emphasizing God’s mercy and desire to give “healing [to] a humble, contrite heart,” the song points to His “warning for the unrepentant.”
This is undoubtedly a welcome shift in the music scene, particularly in the realm of rap, a genre not typically associated with promoting a positive Christian messages.
