Come on , abortion, stop making us all act like idiots! This one little thing, this one little word, this one little issue has been capable of dividing Americans, even to the point of making us kill one another. Where is the logic in that?
It’s become the number one driving issue in this land, controlling everything that happens in Washington. The reality is that most of us just don’t really give a shit. Yeah, I have an opinion, a pretty strong one at that, but I don’t think it has anything to do with how I perform my job, or act or behave. It’s just my opinion.
So now it’s that wonderful time again when we get to watch the process of picking a new Supreme Court justice. Obama has said he’s looking for someone “with a sharp and independent mind and a record of excellence and integrity.” He went on to say “I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with peoples' hopes and struggles, as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.” Makes sense, right? I mean, empathy, understanding and identifying are good qualities, right? Hold on a second. Not if abortion can help it!
Thanks to abortion, the word empathy is now problematic. How, you may ask, could a quality as universally good as empathy be bad? Well, anti-abortionists (don’t call them pro-lifers. we’ll get to that) think that it’s code. Code for activist. Activist. A proponent or practitioner of activism. Activism. The use of direct action in opposition to or support of a cause. That doesn’t sound so bad, does it? Is it wrong to take action in supporting a cause? Well, I guess it depends on the action. That, however, is not the issue. Coming from a group whose actions include murder in support of their cause, activism should not be a problem. The problem is that activism is actually code for pro-abortion! (not pro-choice. getting there, I promise).
Wait a sec. So, empathy is code for activist, and activist is code for killing babies? Come on, abortion, why do you make us so stupid? Really? Really?!!!!
Let’s forget for a minute about all of the problems in this country. Let’s forget about poverty, disease, crime and corruption. Forget about drugs, homelessness, global warming and the economy. Forget steroids in baseball, censorship, wire tapping, the flu and fraud. Forget about all of this, and you can still think of a hundred issues that rank higher in national importance than abortion. So why is it the first matter we debate in understanding our public service nominees? I don’t care if you’re nominated to clean the bathroom floors in the senate. If a friend of yours went to a pro-choice rally in the 70’s, you’re screwed.
Ok. I’ll get to it now. Pro Choice. Pro Life. I don’t want to choose between these! Of course I’m pro life. Who isn’t? Life is good. Life is what keeps us alive. But choice? What kind of world would this be without choice? Free will is what makes us human. Let’s all just get together now as a nation, on both sides of the issue, and decide that abortion cannot have the words choice and life! These words are far too powerful and invoking to be chained to one issue. It’s like the rainbow. I’m sorry, homosexuals, you can’t have it! I support you and your equality, but you cannot take every color in the world and make it your symbol! I like rainbows! I don’t want to be making a statement if I put a rainbow sticker on my pickup truck (although it would be quite a statement!). The only statement I want to be making is that I like rainbows!
So let’s take back these words, choice and life. Simplify. Don’t sugar coat it. If you truly believe in your cause, don’t be afraid to say what it is. Don’t hide behind false imagery and pretty euphemisms. You are either pro-abortion or anti-abortion. Or you don’t give a shit. That’s another point. Don’t assume we all give a shit. Most of us don’t, remember.
So, abortion, just quit it. We are all sick of you. Before you came along as public issue number one, we could abort all kinds of things. Abort used to evoke images of a mission gone awry. I would love to go out to my garden and abort some weeds. I performed an abortion this morning on my beard.
Quit making us fight. Quit taking otherwise good and decent Americans and turning us into raging lunatics at the mere mention of your name.
Quit dictating the politics in this land. Quit taking the time end energy from our legislators that they so desperately need to be spending on real issues.
Just quit it abortion. Or, I should say, abort.
