Selective Sacrifice in America

(Those That Matter)

Exactly who do the elected officials in Washington represent?  I was given to understand they were elected “by the people, for the people”. To me “people” implies living persons.  Why then do I feel as if lawmakers today care more about the unborn or insentient than they do about the people who voted them into office? 

Recently in Georgia the “Woman’s Law” was passed.  This law mandates that a woman must wait 24 hours before she can have an abortion so she can have time to “reflect” on her choice and have access to “all the options available”.  I find that absolutely staggering. If someone were to pass a law mandating that women had to hear about abortion when they started pre-natal care (in the interest of hearing about “all the options”), people would be up in arms.

Furthermore, there are laws on the books in four states allowing pharmacists to refuse to fill emergency contraceptive and birth control prescriptions when it’s against their moral convictions.  Since when did it become all right to force one’s morals on others (not to mention fail to perform your job)?  Why are women everywhere not up in arms?  I am not an abortion advocate. I am a choice advocate.  When men (and make no mistake, the majority of lawmakers in this country are men) can produce children, then they MIGHT have a right to tell me what I can and cannot do with my body.

We were told during the recent Terri Schiavo fiasco that we should “err on the side of life”.  Let me ask this:  Where were the House, Senate and POTUS when Sun Hudson was removed from life support against the wishes of his mother?  Where were the laws and special sessions?  Indeed, the law allowing Sun to be removed from support was signed by Former Texas Governor George “Err on the Side of Life” Bush himself.  The “destroying life” rationale is also used by the President in his decision not to allow federal funding for stem cell research using extra embryos created by fertility clinics. That research could be used to save or improve countless lives.  Are those lives less important?  What are we meant to do with the 400,000+ existing embryos?  File 13?  What I can only surmise from the actions of the current Administration is that we should consider life only when it’s politically expedient.

The current Administration is full of hollow words and hypocrisies.  The lawmakers who are certain that abortion and stem cell research will send us straight to Hell are the same people doing nothing to staunch the hemorrhage of lives and money in Iraq.  Are the lives of thousands of U.S. Troops and Iraqi civilians worth less than those of the unborn or Terri Schiavo?  This appears to me to be the case.  The current climate of the government seems to be all about selective sacrifice.  It’s perfectly fine to die in a war that was entered into under dodgy (at best) intelligence, but to destroy an extra embryo or to honor a woman’s wishes?  That’s MURDER! 

I certainly don’t have all the answers but, in my opinion, choosing an embryo over the potential to help thousands is monumentally WRONG. Sending thousands of troops to Iraq is wrong. 

The selective sacrifice this Administration is practicing is… WRONG.

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Puss'n'Boots