These innocents are being tortured by their families, or foster homes, or foster families, or other adults or other
children. These innocents are children being sexually or physically abused or neglected. Sometimes they are even
killed. But even worse is the neglect of the beautiful children in our inner cities- born to deprived parents, into a
world that offers them very little hope, and almost no beauty. Collective neglect that dooms entire areas to poverty
and despair. If I am going to worry about something- it is going to be that. I find it very hard, considering the other
problems in the world (many of them due to overpopulation) to understand the concern with abortion.
Thank you for saying this, X. It's what tips me over to the pro-choice side, as a religious woman. Not only do I not accept the concept of a fetus as a person, but I believe the focus should be on those people who already walk this earth. I get impatient, even angry, with all the breath and brainpower used to defend "the unborn" when even a fraction of that energy, properly spent, could alleviate enormous amounts of very real suffering among those who are neglected and despairing. |
