I found this extraordinary quote from Methodist Pastor David Barnhardt the other day:
“‘The unborn’ are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.”
Dobbs is a distraction. Roe decided that abortion is sometimes legal. It only legalized some abortions while making some illegal. Prior to Roe, some states did not allow abortions in the first trimester. and so Roe may have saved thousands of lives from backroom abortions. Dobbs did not make abortion illegal nor did it approve the parental consent laws that often result in suicides. It diverted the choice to the elected legislatures. Dobbs necessarily supports CA's pro-abortion laws. My concern is that this will be a political wedge issue, taking attention away from the wars and mandates removing bodily autonomy regarding poison injections.. Women actually are treated worse now than before we had the vote. Now courts rip children away from their mothers. Nobody seems to be fighting to help women who want their children to have healthy pregnancies and keep their children. According to Judge Salcido, judges are taught in judges college to disbelieve women who claim they have been abused. If a women (like Ruby Dillon) takes a child to a doctor who finds the father raped the child and the doctor says to take the child to the police who believe the child that she was raped, then judges disallow testimony from the doctors and police and give full custody to the rapist, limiting the mother to paid supervised visitation at her expense on grounds that exposing abuse is alienation. This happens multiple times a day in family law courts. Dobbs also does not address the situation where men and boyfriends forced women and girls to get abortions, though the girls wanted the babies. It really needs to be the girl's choice. A lot of men actually force miscarriages through violence and the victims generally have no recourses. Where the women or girls are victims of violence, the vast majority of the time the police don't care and then CPS will threaten to take the babies if the women who give birth. So women really usually are on the losing side in most situations---except when they have a supportive man in their lives, often making them dependent fearful slaves.
I found this extraordinary quote from Methodist Pastor David Barnhardt the other day:
“‘The unborn’ are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.”
I think he nailed it.
he nailed it, for sure!
Dobbs is a distraction. Roe decided that abortion is sometimes legal. It only legalized some abortions while making some illegal. Prior to Roe, some states did not allow abortions in the first trimester. and so Roe may have saved thousands of lives from backroom abortions. Dobbs did not make abortion illegal nor did it approve the parental consent laws that often result in suicides. It diverted the choice to the elected legislatures. Dobbs necessarily supports CA's pro-abortion laws. My concern is that this will be a political wedge issue, taking attention away from the wars and mandates removing bodily autonomy regarding poison injections.. Women actually are treated worse now than before we had the vote. Now courts rip children away from their mothers. Nobody seems to be fighting to help women who want their children to have healthy pregnancies and keep their children. According to Judge Salcido, judges are taught in judges college to disbelieve women who claim they have been abused. If a women (like Ruby Dillon) takes a child to a doctor who finds the father raped the child and the doctor says to take the child to the police who believe the child that she was raped, then judges disallow testimony from the doctors and police and give full custody to the rapist, limiting the mother to paid supervised visitation at her expense on grounds that exposing abuse is alienation. This happens multiple times a day in family law courts. Dobbs also does not address the situation where men and boyfriends forced women and girls to get abortions, though the girls wanted the babies. It really needs to be the girl's choice. A lot of men actually force miscarriages through violence and the victims generally have no recourses. Where the women or girls are victims of violence, the vast majority of the time the police don't care and then CPS will threaten to take the babies if the women who give birth. So women really usually are on the losing side in most situations---except when they have a supportive man in their lives, often making them dependent fearful slaves.