In a recent article from Faith & Family Live, an author shares her wonder and worry about the outcome of the presidential election. She marvels at the barrier we've just crossed as a nation, and how wonderful and moving it is that we've elected the first African-American man as president. She goes on to say:
It's bittersweet in the extreme, however, that the man who embodies the triumph of our founding principle "all men are created equal" with respect to black persons should be so unwilling to extend to the unborn the same right to be included in the family of men. It shows he doesn't know the meaning of his own triumph, and it's a blot on his achievement much as the institution of slavery was a blot on the American founding.
The author goes on to share (and here's the second bit, that really shocked me) about a constitutional amendment passed in Michigan that makes it permissible to create embryos specifically for the purpose of experimenting on them. Does that make anyone else just want to be physically ill? (You can read the article in its entirety here.) Creating people, just so we can experiment on them?! It's like a bad nightmare, something from a science fiction movie. It's so evil, so frightening. "Oh, but those are just groups of cells. They're not people." Well, you and I are just a few dollars' worth of chemicals.
The blogger of Conversion Diary (one of my very favorite blogs) talks about this very thing: how the victims of every kind of genocide were first categorized as less than human. Jews in the Holocaust, infant girls in ancient Rome, slaves in early America. How society uses euphemisms to talk about people that are being stripped of their humanity, calling them anything but man, woman, child. How that act makes the horror easier for society to swallow, like the frog boiling in the cooking pot.
There are so many things I could say on this topic. But I am so fatigued by the evil of it. So heartsick that people have eyes but don't SEE. I am grieved that misguided sympathy makes this a "woman's rights issue," as if killing people should be the right of anyone.
Don't even get me started about FOCA. Catholic hospitals will have to start performing abortions, even though that is anathema to their very existence. Parental notification (for parents of minors seeking abortion) will be ended. The ban on partial birth abortion will be lifted. This law can't even be described as Pro Choice - it can only be described as Pro Abortion. This is the first thing Obama wants to sign when he takes office! I'm heartsick about the thought of it.
I need to sign off now, and go hug my children, and pray that they can make a better world of this mess they'll inherit.
2 comments:
Wow, I'm glad to have stumbled across your blog. Thanks for the link, and thanks for articulating so many of my thoughts. Especially this: "I am so fatigued by the evil of it."
I was working on a follow-up post to the one I did last week, and just felt so drained. I was trying to explain to my husband how I felt, and I think the term "fatigued by evil" is perfect.
Thank you for speaking the truth so clearly in this post.
I am fatigued by the evil of it. It's just so mentally, spiritually, and emotionally exhausting having all these thoughts and discussions about prolife issues, when some people just don't get it - or just brush the issue aside as if it were a secondary concern. (My favorite is always, "I'm worried about the people who are already here." The in-utero baby is here, right inside of her mother.)
I think I could devote an entire blog just to prolife issues. But instead, I'll look for your follow-up post. : ) Thanks for the compliment!
Post a Comment