A RadFem I know [you can read her full post at the end of this column if you so desire] had some things to say about abortion, war, men, and religion.
I've always been amazed how anyone can twist real facts to support and condemn that which they love and hate, yet it happens every day, by men, women, religions, organizations, businesses, and governments, seeking to justify their actions and get what they want. These same also break laws, have laws written to support themselves and condemn others for no good reason and at a human cost that is staggering.
Everybody knows these things happen. But, these are not in the majority for one very good reason.
I, your Citizen Journalist, who usually does not opine about abortion on any kind of regular basis, shall do just that in the context of addressing some of Terre's arguments in support of abortion.
Terre quoted an author** who says, "Abortion is about love, life, and death." Terre believes this otherwise she would not be recommending this reading material. The author is not wrong in that statement.
Abortion is about love — of self.
Abortion is about life — ending it.
Abortion is about death — of an innocent at the hands of a mother who should be protecting it.
But, of course, that is not how Terre would see it. Her argument is that because men wage war, and the Pope makes rules about contraception but does nothing to support those children, then a woman deciding to kill her unborn child is a religious, yes sacred, duty.
In other words, she is saying, "Well, if the boys get to do something wrong and feel good about it, then it must not be really wrong, and so then so can we girls kill our unborn children. Na-na-na-boo-boo. So there. Ha!"
In no universe would Terre ever describe herself as a limited thinker, yet that is exactly what she is. She lives in the Lost Land of Black and White where everything is simplified to the extreme and there are only two choices: Hers, that is correct, and yours, which is wrong.
It looks easy to live in the Lost Land of Black and White, but in fact, those that live there are hollow and fragile, and when faced with reality, they dissolve into dust.
Terre believes that men and women go to war (and we can infer she also means first responders like police, National Guard, etc.) because they love the concept of war and the very act of killing itself. Terre has reduced all reasons for war to a negative human trait: Domination.
My father was in the Air Force and I had several uncles and a grandfather who were Marines. (They have all passed.) I know a lot of active and retired soldiers and first responders. Not a one of them loved killing. None joined so that they could kill.*
They joined to protect.
In order to protect, yes, these sometime must kill. That they have nightmares and other PTSD symptoms after the fact only goes to show that this act goes against their good natures. But they are willing to sacrifice themselves — and here is the key! — to protect others.
Terre, in her Lost Land of Black and White, equates the killing of an unborn child by a mother who could not be bothered to sacrifice her lifestyle with a soldier's sacrifice of self in the face of an evil force whose aim is to kill mothers, fathers, and children.
How are the two even remotely the same?
They are not the same.
They cannot be the same.
And they never will be the same.
The latter, my friend, is sacrifice. And that is what is sacred about their duties because it comes from a place of love. Love is the dominant human trait and don't ever forget it.
Terre will never understand that and that is why she, who could do some real good in this world by identifying real evil and pointing it out (which she does do some of), instead wastes her time and intellect by supporting a politically correct notion that all abortion is a sacred female duty.
Thinking like that is what has made it possible for the likes of another limited thinker and politically correct lemming,
Lena Dunham, to say: "Now I can say that I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had."
That thinking makes me sick — and furious.
Those who holler loudest about caring are the very ones who care the least.
Those who holler loudest about equality are the very ones who believe they matter more than you.
Those who holler loudest about rights are the very ones who seek to take yours away by hook or crook.
Yes, these who holler loudest are dictators looking for a position in the new ruling party.
The rest of us, we quietly go about making real sacrifices for real people, solving complicated issues for the good of the our communities. That is what holds together our communities and makes them safe.
And because we are quiet, the Terres and Lenas of this world with their limited thinking and blind-leading-the-blind behavior, think they are right and in a position of strength.
They cannot be further from wrong. And for that, I thank Almighty God.
It is our duty to keep reality in their faces by supporting what is truly sacred and living by a code that does not devalue life. And that is what motivates your Citizen Journalist.
