Once again America is held in the
limbo of stagnation by the lunatic fringe who feel obligated to find the most
isolated and polarizing issues to focus the national debate while serenely
ignoring the more pressing threats to our existence.
It is a sad and tragic reality in
today’s America that rational thought and productive debate are outlawed by a
sub-culture of radicals who dictate the direction of national discussion by
forcing the vast majority, who have no real stake in the topic, to bow to the
alter of the latest media cycle.
Last month it was whether or not
we should eat chicken sandwiches sold by someone opposed to homosexual
marriage. Before that it was “how dare
you restrict my ability to purchase an assault rifle!” And now it’s all about
abortion, or to be more precise, abortion for those victimized by rape.
Rome burns, the Titanic sinks and
we spend our time worrying about the color of the fire engine and the deck
chair ensemble.
And we wonder how we ever managed
to allow ourselves to fall into a world where we drop hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on a foreign war we forget we’re in, accept 8% unemployment as
normal, have 50% of the population on some sort of government assistance,
annually spend $1.9 Trillion more
than we take in and adopt a health care policy which does nothing to address either
health nor cost all while the cliff of reality speeds ever closer.
We have some very serious realities facing our future and yet we cannot even
begin to open the discussion because the radical wing-nuts of the far left and
right won’t allow it. Changes to
Medicare? Social Security? Just try to mention it and doors slam, ears
are plugged and the childish refrain of ‘La-la-la-la…I can’t hear you!’ shrieks
back.
Today, and for what will probably
amount to the next 36 to 72 hours we’ll bicker back and forth about the most
devastating threat to national security since the Japanese bombed Pearl
Harbor. What’s that? A Stuxnet virus launched against our power
grid?
No, it’s abortion. The holy of holies of when it comes to
grid-locking progress.
Look, I don’t pretend to get
it. I’m not a woman, it’s not my body
and I don’t understand the whole “It’s a choice thing” argument. Does life begin at conception? I don’t know and to be honest I don’t really
care. To me the abortion rant is
hijacked by those on the far sides of the debate who want nothing more than to
hear their own voices clog the forum.
For me, the abortion issue has
never been about an unplanned pregnancy, a women’s right to choose or where
life begins. To me it’s all about an
unwanted child and what should we do about that? I have never heard a Pro-Life solution for
what should be done once the ‘miracle’ is born.
What happens then? What do you do
with a child born into a world where the mother doesn’t want it? And before we quick-puke the response of adoption
please illustrate how that process is governed, funded and overseen.
But we can’t have that debate can
we? Pro-Lifers might believe life begins
at conception but it doesn’t have much of a plan once the birth occurs.
Pro-Life is Pro-Life and if you
don’t think like me then I had better scream louder. Oh, and like much of what we “intelligently
discuss” in the public forum these days it’s all 100%, no debate,
everything-all-the-time, no exceptions so carry on and keep on moving because we know what’s best for you.
Now before you unfurl your Pro
Choice colors and rally in a unified chant could it be remotely possible to entertain
the concept that abortion should maybe not
be used as the primary source of birth control? I mean, an ‘unplanned pregnancy’ should not
have to be the definitive moment of someone’s life but is it possible to
perhaps put a little more thought into what we’re doing once the lights are
dimmed and the consequences of those actions?
Oh, sorry. I forgot.
We can’t have the rational debate because we lost our collective
rationality back in the Johnson Administration…you gotta respect my rights even
if they infringe on yours…
What if the woman is raped
though? And a pregnancy results? Surely then there can be an exception from
the divine rule, right?
Hell no!
So this is where we are
today. Arguing about whether abortion
should be allowed for those who are victimized by the most brutal crime known
to the human race. Again, we’re not
going to talk about what we’ll do with an unwanted child because we can never
get that far into the debate and to compromise or rationalize on a case by case
basis is simply ludicrous because we live in a world where there’s only one way
and that’s the right way and it works every single time…
Here’s a side note about how we
roll in America these days. There was an
argument a few years back about smoking on public beaches in Massachusetts and
one person was adamantly opposed to the idea.
No cigarettes at any time on any beach for anyone he railed. Okay, I see your point. But then it was asked of him ‘Do you even go
to the beach?’ No, he didn’t like
sand…so even though there’s a topic about which you have absolutely zero
personal involvement in you’re still going to levy an opinion about how others
should be forced to behave?
See where I’m going?
Let’s talk about rape for a
second. It’s bad. And yet it does happen. Wish it wouldn’t but it does. It happens about 90,000 times a year in the
United States according to the most radical statistics. Pregnancies resulting from rape are
calculated at the extreme far edge to be at 5%.
This means in the most wildest of scenarios there are about 4,500
pregnancies resulting from rape in the US each year.
Now I don’t mean to diminish the
pain buried within these statistics.
Each case carries with it a life altering set of circumstances. But I am trying to illustrate how we, as a
nation, are killing ourselves by focusing our resources and energies on issues
which affect very tiny segments of the overall population.
There are 314,159,000 citizens in
the United States today. Should we spend
our energies looking at the population as a whole or at the smaller
percentage? I’m not saying we ignore
them just like I’m not saying we ignore the unemployed, the uninsured, the
elderly, the veterans, the immigrants, the unhealthy, the incarcerated, the
uneducated or even the unlucky but since the forecast for all of us is fairly
bleak at the present time could it be possible to direct our attentions towards
the greater solution in an effort to plug the dike so we don’t all drown in the
end?
The ship is sinking,
America. Our entitlement programs, debt
and collective refusal to open a conversation about compromised solutions
threatens us all. It’s time we band
together and unite to seek solutions. We
cannot afford to allow the lunatic fringe of the far left and right to steer the
ship any longer.
