
It's too bad that the word "issue" has been coupled with the word "abortion." Once you brand something as an "issue" it becomes the property of those who are interested in politics ... or of activists who each have their "pet issues." It somehow reduces the entire idea to the realm of thought and debate. People who have a stomach for such things can then polarize into different camps, and snipe at each other with well chosen slogans. Ask the survivors of a prison camp what they think of the "issue" of incarcerating innocent people and torturing them ... ask a rape victim what she thinks of the "issue" of rape ... you may find that these people don't take very kindly to the idea of filing any of these nightmares under the label "issue" - right between saving the green-eyed fruit fly and whether bass should be legal at 6 inches or at 6.25 inches ... Abortion is not a mere political issue. It's not something that can be civilly and quietly batted back and forth between proponents and opponents like what kind of flowers to plant in the town square come spring. Abortion is murder.
Thinking people are outraged when they consider the Holocaust. Those who are aware of what's been happening in Africa are horrified to their depths that human beings could be so cruel to one another. Many of these same people, however, think nothing of the ongoing murder of silent innocent unborn human beings in quantities that dwarf the sum total of death statistics from all of the wars and genocides of the last century by multiple millions.
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