Recently, the Mirror published a convoluted editorial linking mandatory vaccines to abortion rights.
In an effort to clarify the motives of those of us who defend the sanctity of life at all stages, but most especially the most vulnerable, I would like to offer some insight.
Every child conceived is imbued by a Creator with the potential for faith, hope and love at a minimum.
The child has the potential for unlimited greatness, if it were but nurtured.
The basic responsibility in any society is to conceive, nurture and guide the succeeding generation in hopes of not only perpetuating the species, but also to create a better world than that which exists.
The holocaust that has been visited on the unborn would fail in this basic responsibility.
The destruction of the unborn is also one of the toxic forces that tears at the nuclear family, which is the building block of any organized society.
The wholesale slaughter and resulting harvesting of tissue and organs has created a casual disregard for life at all points on the continuum, creating a culture that has cheapened life to the point that the cavalier attitude toward the loss of life has made us all less safe.
Any society in decline has always displayed a tolerance for man’s inhumanity toward man.
Many believe that abortion and the societal chaos would fall into that category.
Abortion should not be a political question. It is absolutely a question of morality and reflection of the society that promotes it.
In 1993, Sen. Daniel Moynihan wrote an editorial explaining the consequences of defining deviancy down.
His thesis was that the desensitization that occurs as we accept different aberrant behaviors leads to greater aberrant behaviors.
The same can be said for defining the preciousness and sanctity of life down. As we accept the cessation of life at any point, it further endangers all life.
Most people, both male and female, who pray for and defend the sanctity of life view this practice as something far beyond a political talking point or litmus test.
No one I know of views it in terms of a gender study allegory of women’s oppression by man.
Mel Kepner
Altoona
