Question,
why is it so difficult to adopt and so easy to abort?
Because Americans still consider unborn children to be human life forms without any basic human rights. They are to some degree human, having a full set of human genes, but they are legally considered property, not people. Throughout history, various groups have denied basic human rights to groups which they considered non-human or less-than-fully human, or which they have treated as property and not people. History is filled with such examples--in our own history, black slaves; in modern history, Jews in Nazi Germany; in the traditional culture of India (and in many other places), women (who in India were expected to burn themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands) . . . the list goes on and on.
Someday people will look back on legalized abortion with the same horror with which we now look back on slavery, Auschwitz, and all the rest and ask "how could decent people do those things to [blacks/jews/women/Albanians/children...]?" And the answer, as it always has been throughout history, will be "they didn't know any better; they weren't all evil people, though some were, and some--even many--knew better, but basically their culture as a whole didn't accept that [slaves/jews/women/the unborn/name of other group] were "real" people who deserved to be treated like people, not property. They hadn't yet come to realize that ALL human life is precious, in whatever form it comes, whatever its color, race, sex, or condition."
When you can explain to me why decent people (like Thomas Jefferson) owned slaves, why decent people subjugated women for centuries, why decent Germans worked in the concentration camps, why decent people today are carrying out genocide in Kosovo, in Somalia, in you name it, they I will explain to you why decent people still abort children in this country. |
