September 26, 2006

• Justice?

  I commented on another blog about a week ago. As I read the other comments, I realized that I needed to clarify what I said. I am posting my clarification here because I don’t want to take up a huge space on Chelsey’s blog.

  
  

  
  

  Chelsey posted a link to a magazine that is trying to get signatures of women who have had abortions, or support abortions. They also want these women to publish their names, so as the statement hits harder, I assume. After reading the petition, I posted this comment on Chelsey’s blog:

  
  

  
  

  “That petition should read:
  
  I have killed another human being, and I support the killing of millions of other humans by my fellow sisters. We have no conscience.
  
  We are too lazy to deal with the consequences of our actions.
  
  Thank you sisters! We should call up Saddam right now and join his next Genocide Anonymous meeting!
  
  Woot for us! I am so proud to be a woman!!!”

  
  

  
  

  I fully stand by what I said, and my reasoning behind it is simple (in my mind, anyway).

  
  

  
  

  I think it is such an absolute atrocity that Saddam (and others like him in so many other countries) has killed (ordered killings, etc.) thousands upon thousands of people. I am sure that the majority of human beings on this planet hold the same opinion. Mass killing of human beings is horrid. There is no excuse for it.

  
  

  
  

  Am I wrong? Do you feel that woman and children in Darfur should suffer? Is it right that there are millions of other people being killed senselessly in other countries?

  
  

  
  

  No. It is not right.

  
  

  
  

  Is it right that over 4000 humans are killed every day?

  
  

  
  

  No – it is not right.

  
  

  
  

  I would like someone to please tell me that any of that is right. Not just in God’s eyes, but in our eyes. I want just one person to tell me that all of those people losing their lives does not bother them at all.

  
  

  
  

  Now – why should it matter that the 4000 humans that are killed every day are babies that are aborted?

  
  

  
  

  It shouldn’t matter, but how many of you decided that 4000 babies killed every day is ok, once you read it was caused by abortion? It is ok, because women should have that choice? The choice to kill?

  
  

  
  

  I want to publish a petition of my own. I want to know how many of those women who signed the magazine’s petition and published their names publicly had abortions to save their own lives. How many women used the “right to choose,” because they would have died themselves instead?

  
  

  
  

  How many women used their “right” because they just didn’t want a baby? How many of those women had abortions because they couldn’t afford it? How many of them killed their own child because they were afraid of what people would think of them – being pregnant?

  
  

  
  

  Sure, women have the right to choose to kill their own children – but WHY do they kill them? WHY?

  
  

  
  

  No one asks those questions.

  
  

  
  

  Is it right for a woman to have an abortion out of convenience? I am not asking if women should have the right to choose. I am asking if women should have abortions because they just don’t want/need a baby.

  
  

  
  

  It is not right, people. It just is not right.

  
  

  
  

  After 5 years, we mourn the people that died because of 9-11. The event is etched in our minds, and we want justice for it. Celebrities are doling out money left and right to fight for people in Darfur and other third world countries. All of this killing is so clear in our minds. We hear about it every day.

  
  

  
  

  Why is the killing of 4000 babies every day not so clear in our minds? Why don’t we care that women are killing out of convenience?

  
  

  
  

  Maybe some did not think that comparing Saddam and other terrorists to abortion is logical. In my mind, terrorists and some other notable leaders in other countries are killing thousands of people every day. Well – so are women.

  
  

  
  

  Women are killing babies every day, and no one cares.

  
  

  
  

  I am not ashamed of my stance on abortion. Chelsey should not be ashamed for her opinions either, and I am very sorry if I ever gave her that impression. I also apologize to anyone who felt my comments were not logical.

  
  

  
  

  Finally, to the women who have had abortions: Look into your heart and ask yourself why you had an abortion. Was there no other choice? What about adoption? What about organizations that help financially? Did you really have no other choice – or was it just not the right time in your life?

  
  

  
  

  Abortion clinics do not offer any kind of help after the fact. You go in, your pay, and you have your “procedure” done. Then you are let go on your own to deal with the aftermath. It isn’t your fault that you made an ill-informed decision once.

  
  

  
  

  It is your fault, however, for not helping to educate other women about the other choices they have. It is your fault for sitting back and saying it is ok for it to happen 4000 times every day FOR NO REAL REASON.

  
  

  
  

  If you live in Victoria, there will be a Life Chain on Sunday, October 1 at 2pm. It will start on Navarro at Loop 463 and stretch to the Sam Houston/Magruder intersection. This is a nationwide event, so if you don’t live here, just check with any church or pro-life organization in your area for the time and place of your Life Chain.

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