Slavery and life

I have been thinking a lot about the life issue lately (even more so then usual).

The more I think about it, the more I feel it is the great moral issue of our lifetime. Just as slavery was the issue to my great, great (great?) grandfathers generation, I look at the life issue today.

Many of the arguments you hear made by abortion proponents I wonder if my fore fathers heard about slavery in their day.

“If you don’t like it, don’t have one”

“I am not for it…..But I think people should have the right to choose to have one or not.”

“If you could have one you would make sure the right to it was in the US constitution.”

“It is my property I can do with it what I want.”

Or on the softer side of it….

“I can’t do anything about it so it’s not worth arguing about.”

“The supreme court has ruled. It is decided law. We can’t change it”

Or on the twisted logic side of it...

"Without them many poor people wouldn't know what to do, people might die"

"They couldn't just take care of themselves. They could end up wards of the state. You wouldn't pay for that"

"When they are born they may not look or act just like us, In many cases they are better off where they are so just leave it alone."

"This state is not ready for that change."

When I hear this talk I get incredibly frustrated at people, at the coldness of their hearts. I wonder how they can turn such a blind eye to the cruelty and inhumanity of the act. Then I think possibly it is the brutality in and of itself that makes it so easy for people to look away from. Just as the German people could turn their eyes from the cruelty done to the Jewish people in the 1930’s and 40s and just imagine it really isn’t happening because its was too gruesome or it is easier to imagine the people who it is happening to aren’t really people at all. Less then human.

I think over and over about my time in the legislature (past, present and future) and wonder if there is any way to sway some people. I think there has to be a way to attack the issue, to explain the issue, to expose the issue, to open the eyes, to change hearts and minds so we can change votes. If not, how best to get people in who will have an open heart.


Oddly, in the legislature, Those who would be most effected by the first two injustices are the least likely to step up to stop the third. In nearly all the cases they openly support it. If not vocally than at least in their willingness to allow it to continue. You have to wonder about your stance on an issue when it mirrors slave owners and the third reich.

Oh well. It is just what is on my mind……..