Did you know that most Germans had no idea what Hitler was doing during the time of the Holocaust? After the fact, when they were taken to tour concentration camps and witness the carnage, they were devastated and bewildered. I mean, of course they were! All of us recall that part of history with the same reaction (or we should). It's awful to be faced with such truth. It was inhumane. He chose specific populations and decided that those lives were not as valuable as the rest, not based on crimes committed, but rather on general prejudice in the assumption that those races or groups of people (e.g. the disabled) were fighting for space that more appropriately belonged to superior races (like the Germans, naturally). Keeping those other guys around was inconvenient and not good for "the rest of us," so said the Nazis.
(We can all think of a handful of people that make our lives inconvenient, but we don't round 'em up and off 'em. That's insane. Hitler was a mad man.)
We saw similar confusion about the intrinsic value of all human life when we waded through the whole horrible era of slavery. Of course, it's been going on throughout time and still haunts our modern world in the form of the booming business of sex trafficking. And oh my, to devalue those lives in such a way makes us indignant, as it should until it's brought buckling down to its knees.
Then I see the purity of goodness in so many around me from all walks of life and backgrounds and political affiliations. I see more of that than I do the bad, to tell the truth. These bad incidents are so yucky and often so horrifying in scope that they seem huge, but I see goodness everywhere! I have friends who would go out of their way to not step on an ant, so great is their respect and compassion for life.
Imagine, then, how horrified I was just earlier today to find out that in our civilized society, we still participate in what is very similar to the torture and execution method of human quartering--that is, forgive me, the tearing apart of living people limb by limb.
But we do it to babies while they're still alive. I honestly had NO IDEA that was the primary method of performing an abortion.
Did you?
I bet a lot of people don't know it, those for and against. And we all ought to know. We ALL MUST become educated about it. Because we hide from what we don't want to acknowledge, but hiding doesn't make it not real.
I have a lot more to say, particularly regarding common methods of aborting (What the WHAT??!!), what the medical handbooks actually say to guide the abortionists, and the church's role in this issue. Oh, and then we have the statistics of how many abortions occur because of life-and-death situations compared to the ones that are a matter of convenience. Because we can rally cry all we want about the life of the mother, but the VAST majority of these mothers are healthy and actually pose an added health risk to themselves to undergo the procedure.
And finally, it doesn't matter what we call a baby while it's in utero. It's really fine if we call it a fetus--or a blob or a mass or a horse or a river--but it's a little human who's alive, and for all intents and purposes, the smallest, developing humans are, in fact, humans, human babies. We call the smallest, developing anything babies. So I have more to say.
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| Hey! I'm 8 weeks old! |
But not tonight.
Tonight, we should ponder the idea of tearing apart the body of a living human, limb by limb.
...And all the tremendous goodness of heart out there on every side of the issue that could make it stop.
Other answers abound. We can do better.
Come on, humans, let's rise above.
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