This is obviously not the blog to which one comes for a deep dive on the issue of Abortion…you know, that thing the Supreme Court kinda/sorta outlawed this morning. It has not been an issue that has had much direct impact on my adult life except as a political concern.
I am not unsympathetic to the feelings of those with honest moral issues about it but I don't think they have been the ones driving the bus on this topic. I think they're the ones who have been manipulated by and exploited by those who knew it was an issue that could get votes and donations.
If you want to convince me you have a genuine caring for the unborn, show me some meaningful concern for what happens to those children once they're born…or for the women whose lives are harmed in some way by being denied the right to control their own bodies. After she had me (by emergency Caesarean section), my mother was told that she came close to dying in the process and shouldn't try it again…which explains why I was an only kid. When I hear people insist that abortion must be illegal in all cases, I think, "Gee, that person who claims to be 'pro-life' doesn't put much value on the lives of women like my mother who may risk death in childbirth."
That and one other thing helped shape my thinking on this matter. Around 1978, a lady friend had me join her in a counter-demonstration against a group that was picketing what they claimed — probably wrongly — was an "abortion clinic." It wasn't really but the protesters got physical trying to deny entrance to pregnant ladies seeking much-needed free care to keep them healthy until they could give birth…and, of course, after. I may tell that story here one of these days but I don't want to write it up now when I don't have time to do it properly. And again, I'm not sure this is the right blog for this topic at all.
Today, I'm mostly distressed at this war escalating. I just saw an ecstatic person on CNN saying that the issue of Abortion in America has now been settled once and for all. I think the opposite. I think we're going to be hearing about it every day a pregnant lady or a provider is arrested…or some woman dies because she couldn't obtain a safe 'n' legal termination of a pregnancy. Which sadly may mean every day.