"Wanna participate in the March for Life this year?"
"No, not really. It's been co-opted by politicos and has turned into a March Against Abortion and Other Things That Don't Fit Our Political Platform."
"How about we make signs that say, "ALL life is sacred from womb to tomb?""
"OK. I'm down for that."
And who says that not all life is sacred? This March is exactly for the purpose of ending abortion, and has always been. If you don't like it, you can organize your own.
ReplyDeleteMany religious people have tried, and are subsequently accused of not talking enough about abortion.
DeleteWell, the purpose of the march is unclear. It's not just a giant Vigil to commemorate abortion and pray for its end and to form a rallying point for organizing towards solutions and getting involved in those.
ReplyDeleteRather, it's a "march," not a vigil. It's content would therefore seem to be, at least in large part, POLITICAL, and the solutions proposed likewise political.
As far as I can tell, it isn't at heart a march against abortion. It's a march against abortion being non-criminalized. It seems not as concerned with ending abortion in practice as with merely making it illegal for the sake of some sort of theoretical ideological purity to be enshrined in law.
Of course, I give them the benefit of the doubt; many are naive and think "ending abortion" or "saving lives" and "criminalizing it" are in large part equivalent. More nuanced minds might disagree.
Agreed. Thank you.
DeleteWhere does that strange and oddly humorous video come from? A film or TV show?
ReplyDeleteI'm really not sure. But I saw it, laughed, and totally wrote this post around it. ;)
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