I know that this doesn't fit very well with our theme of joy, but I believe this to be an important issue worth taking the time to consider.
Today I saw an article in the New York Times that caught my attention more than any other article that I have read recently. Ross Douthat, one of the conservative opinion columnists for the Times, is trying to draw attention to what he considers to be an urgent and persistent social ill. Abortion, though occasionally brought to the national consciousness for mostly political reasons, is largely just swept under the rug, so to speak. In 2005, 1.21 million pregnancies in the United States were terminated by abortions. By comparison, about 230,000 were killed in the Southeast Asian tsunami in 2004, and about 222,000 were killed in the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Mr. Douthat does an excellent job expressing what abortion actually means on a human level, both for those who participate and those who suffer indirectly through lost opportunities to adopt, etc. This is a stinging rebuke to those who say that abortion is about a woman's "reproductive rights." When lives are lost, society has the responsibility to intervene. Why haven't we?
Please read the whole story here. It's well worth the few minutes it takes to read it. This link included in the article has some statistics on abortion that I found rather startling.
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