Abortion is an unspeakable sin. However it is not the only unspeakable sin. I am constantly amazed by the way some of my more conservative friends talk about Abortion and protecting the unborn. Yet when it comes to the born, especially innocent children who are just as innocent as unborn children, my friends are silent and turn the other way. Abortion does not touch their lives anymore than the war in Iraq does or a child with out water in Central America, yet onward they march on the abortion issue.
What I have come to learn is that this issue is a more often a vanity issue for them. It makes them feel good. More often than not, it is also a political issue for them. They can easily hide behind the abortion issue and support so called pro-life candidates while turning a blind eye to all the other injustices of the world. At then end of the day, I find these types of people to simply be selfish and uncaring. The world is centered on them and they believe that once born, a person must make their own way in the world.
With the unborn - they do not have to put a face or a personality to the victim. It is a convenient way for them to feel morally superior and at the same time maintain their selfish way of existence.
Narrowly focused on the single issue of abortion, they do not have to concern themselves with the children of Iraq who are suffering from the horrors of war. They do not have to be worried about a child in this world dying every 7 minutes of dehydration. The fact that mothers living in poverty are more often than not forced in the choice of abortion simply because they lack the basic needs to care for their children. Needs like healthcare, childcare and jobs.
I tire of the sanctimonious conservatives obsessed with abortion, when they offer no alternatives or solution. I have no tolerance for them turning a blind eye to death and destruction in this world while they live comfortable lives detached from suffering.
If the day ever comes that these Pharisees ever care about born children dying, or preventable death in this world at any age as much as they care about the unborn - I will be the first in line at the next anti-abortion march. Until then my friends - do not call yourself "pro-life". You are simply "anti-abortion".
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