Will It Be Love or Indifference?

Pro-Life March, Washington, DC 1-22-8

If the human and national consequences weren’t so ungodly, one might just marvel at skills parlayed by abortion’s leaders in (i) financing election expenses of politicians key to abortion’s objectives (ii) contorting English so as to masquerade their killing as benevolent (iii) gaining tacit tolerance by most of the media toward these endeavors and (iv) making it all happen while 50% of citizens eligible to vote stay away from the polls, each election! But what it all achieves is cowardly killing - every day of every year - of helpless, innocent human beings in number larger than the 3,000 killed by terrorists 9-11-01? EVERY DAY!! EVERY YEAR!! In truth, American citizens tolerate killing of more innocent human beings here, than terrorists kill worldwide!.

This paper pegs as "ideologues" all who consider the abortion industry a good, to which they devote their votes or personal work effort. While vigorous in support of abortion, ideologues possess a total of votes that is a small fraction of the votes controlled by non-ideologues, who are those in (iv) above plus active voters who pick candidates for reasons unrelated to the issue of abortion. But non-ideologues ought not ignore neighbors’ woes!

God’s Great Commandment requires our love of God first, then states: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Upon the foundation of these two loves is built God’s whole plan for human living and happiness, i.e. "the whole law and the prophets" (see Mt 23:34-40). Taking "love" to entail, minimally, our respect for the dignity of the other (whom God saw fit to create, just as he did us) and caring, so as to use our own, freely-received gifts to help the other when needs arise that we can try to ameliorate. My dictionary repeats several times the factor of

Will it be Love or Indifference November 2008? (continued)

nearness associated with neighbor, but in these days of instant, worldwide communiction we become helping neighbors of those half a world away suffering disasters like tsunamies. More than just linear nearness applies.

With regard to abortion, we are neighbor to the helpless, innocent, little human being in the womb and we are neighbor to that little one’s mother, placed - in many instances - under intense harrassment and threats that she give an order to "get rid" of that kid who’s only going to be a bother to us if you don’t. (Of course, he uses "us" when his concern, probably, is "me"). And only she can order the dirty work done, thanks to Supreme Justices who (with urging from abortion ideologues of the time) gave her the unique "honor" to legally sacrifice her own!

Now, here’s the bottom line. God has COMMANDED us to love our neighbor. At a minimum, love is caring, and doing what we are able to help neighbors in need. Voting-franchised Americans have the most powerful force imaginable to save our neighbors: helpless, innocent unborn human beings currently being slaughtered in numbers exceeding 3,000 each and every day. We are under ORDER to care about, and help our neighbor. There is a cost to our "choice" not to do so. Some day, such "choices" still unaccounted for will be a matter between God and us. And witnesses at the dialog that day might well be the spirits of aborted human beings! In the end, our love or its absence - our indifference - will determine our eternal destiny. Likely, that’s why love has its lodging in the Great Commandment.