The abortion debate
is a fraud because it measures rich and poor by different standards. Consider
the following two cases:
Both were women who
had abortions, and who wrote about their feelings for the Press. (One wrote for
a national‑distribution magazine [Harpers, if I recall correctly], the other
for a SF Bay Area free paper [East Bay Express].) Both changed their minds about
the issue, but in opposite directions. How they chose, why they chose, and what
they felt about it afterwards reveals the class‑based hypocrisy that defines
this 'debate'.
The rich woman
started out a fervent believer in the Right To Choose. Accordingly, she
exercised this right, not once but many, many times; and she did so essentially
for convenience. She had life‑plans, work‑plans, money‑plans, and love‑plans
that she would not allow several unplanned pregnancies to interfere with.
Eventually the time came for her to raise that prosperous, secure family she
had been planning all along; but with the passage of time her fertility had
declined, and getting pregnant was harder than she anticipated. Being well‑off,
she got the medical attention needed to overcome this problem; and during her
pregnancy she found her opinion of the matter changing. By the time she gave
birth her views had changed 180 degrees; and therefore she wrote an article
saying so. She declared her previous views and actions wrong; but she also said
that she forgave herself. Her feelings are calm, her mind is centered, her life
is sweet.
The poor woman
started out a fervent believer in the Right to Life. When she and her disabled
husband had their first child, they expected nothing but joy; but they were
wrong. Alas, times were hard; very, very hard. Times got harder all the time,
for a long time indeed. Had they still been childless, they might have been
able to cope; but as is they suffered grievously. Eventually hard times subsided; things
started to look up; they dared to hope for themselves and their child. Then she
missed her period, and the nightmare began. They knew, all too well, the hell
of poverty that awaited them in nine months; they *knew* that they could not support
another child. Before they were shielded by inexperience, but no more; they
were face to face with the hideous reality that they just couldn't make it.
Their church (a pro‑life support group) was there with advice, emotional
backup, Scriptural suasion ‑ everything except actual material aid. So finally
she made the hard ‑ but, to her mind, utterly necessary ‑ choice of abortion.
She found this emotionally devastating, not least because her own prior beliefs
mocked her; but she went through with it, for the sake of her family. In the
end her views had changed 180 degrees; and therefore she wrote an article
saying so. She declared her previous views and actions wrong; but she also said
that she did not forgive herself. Her feelings are turbulent, her mind is
unsettled, her life is bitter.
Do you want all of
the sex and none of the guilt? Then be rich. Do you want none of the sex and
all of the guilt? Then be poor. This fundamental injustice is *why* the
abortion pseudo‑debate is fraudulent to the core; it rants about rights,
responsibility, choice, life, souls, cells, Freedom, God... but never, ever
about the one thing that really matters; the one factor that calls ALL the
shots:
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Note that the
bucks in your wallet say, "In God We Trust". Now let me ask you; what
kind of a God does one invoke on money? What but a God *of* money?
Mammon; America's
true Lord.
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