The abortion pill RU-486 is available now. They're adding more rent-a-cops to the displays at all the local FDA hangouts and abortion clinics to protect the lives of those involved. Be warned. If you're interested in a homicidal statement against murder, it may behoove you to slay some Texas judges or a governor instead.
It always fascinated me that those who would shake their pointy ears at the institution of capital punishment would then turn on their hooves and give an ass's kick to anyone who tried to prevent a woman from doing the same. Or else, I wonder at those same weighty types who bare their mighty tusks at the idea of abortion and yet call the herd over the vast plains of Congress to fight for the same right to murder through the court system.
It is a perversion of logic that allows our fellow human beings to justify the destruction of another human being and yet not take responsibility for the society that is responsible for her societal deviance. You can pay for a textbook or a teacher or you can pay for a lawyer and a prison cell. I wonder, though, if in fact our capitalist country can justify the blatantly socialist position of paying for electricity and injections.
There are people in this world who believe that it is somehow morally acceptable if not necessary to give man the right to take a life. They house it in terms of a woman and her right to choose. Evil is most heinous when it is invisible. No one will admit that in fact the murder is not a woman's choice but the choice of a society. But it is fought under the banner of choice and freedom. It's like the Statue of Liberty. She's French, but we attached an American inscription to her so that we could ferry past her and marvel at ourselves. We are not socialists, and while that makes it harder to legalize Mifeprex, it also makes it harder to recognize abortion in its proper context as a social issue.
So we have two sides and two sanctions for murder, and I offer that there are myriad groups and persons who support both or refuse both institutions. The major concerns in the national and in state governments, the Democratic and Republican parties, though, each choose one. A vote for either is, thus, a vote for death and social degradation. We can either kill and let murderers be paroled before their victims are buried, or we can kill and fill our orphanages and daytime talk-shows with unwanted and unsupported and unproductive and sometimes dangerous life.
I should note: I was adopted.
But, personal bias aside, I can only hope to assert one point about Mifeprex and the death penalty and the state of our society -- we are pathetically weak.
In every breath, freedom fills us in America. It is the greatest nation in the world and I mean that unequivocally. But the dilemma that is inherent in our daily lives and which is manifest now with a form of abortion that can be picked up with Tylenol is that when deciding how to define our morality, we are blind to our moral obligation. That is, assuming we have morals. There are some who say that there is no consideration for the life of a fetus whose nerve endings allow her to feel the breathing of her mother. It is indubitably the right of the mother, the mother's freedom like the Statue of Liberty's hastily added inscription that makes her American, that makes the Choice paramount. There are also people who say that it is in fact inconsequential that a victim of state-sanctioned and executed murder may be innocent. The murder of this person, they argue, is a worthy price to pay for the order of a nation. Both of these people are repulsive, heartless, godless, weak creatures who aren't worth their own injections or scrapings.
The dilemma of our society is only felt by those who have souls. For these souls, be they based in religion or philosophy or just respect, there is always the 'if only'. If only we lived in a perfect world, we wouldn't need abortions. That is, ideally, no child would be created who wasn't wanted. No child once created would be alone. On two levels, abortion would be a ridiculous concept. If only we lived in a perfect world, there would be no crime. If there were, ideally, criminals would be separated from society through a fair and efficient judicial system. Our society takes great pains to support rights to choose and rights to kill, or else fights to suppress these social controls though it admits that ideally there should be no need for them. But, if only
We ignore, though -- and this is it, this is everything and the reason I write this at 4:00 a.m. on a Friday morning -- that our dilemma is an admittance of failure. We ignore that we do not need to have a debate about the death penalty, we need to have a debate about the societal factors that lead to its necessity. We ignore that we do not need to bicker over the production of a drug that would allow women to kill their children unborn, we need to create a society where such a device would be laughable. We need something better.
