As far as I'm concerned, this year has been phenomenal for the pro-life forces. Several states have passed through their state houses laws designed to protect the life of a fetus. Alabama and Mississippi this week passed and signed into law two of the most restrictive abortion access laws. Kudos! Mega dittos! High fives all the way around!
The pro death forces are, predictably, losing their minds over these new laws, bemoaning the loss of reproductive health care for women, blah, blah, blah. Their arguments haven't changed since they were forced to admit that a fetus is not just a collection of cells, but a human being.
My incredulity comes from so-called pro-life conservative Christians who say these laws go too far. Really??! It's been 46 years of wholesale slaughter. Literally hundreds of people lose their lives each day due to abortion. The number is so large by now, it's like the National Debt, unfathomable. Too far? Not far enough!!!!! Abortion is legal up to 8 weeks of pregnancy; once a woman is pregnant, from the second the sperm fertilizes the egg, she has a human baby growing inside her. It is also legal if carrying the baby to term would kill the mother. Neither law has consequences for women who have illegal abortions, the consequences are saved for the perpetrators of the killing the "doctors".
We, who have seen clearly and accepted the atrocities of history, have become what we have condemned. I include myself. I wear pro-life t shirts, I write blogs, I pass along stories on social media, but I don't act as if the slaughter of innocents happens every day. If I did, I would never leave the doors of these businesses. I rationalize because I have a job, I have bills to pay, I won't make that much of a difference, blah, blah, blah.
So, yes, kudos to Mississippi and Alabama. They get it. Maybe the rest of us can start to get it, too.
