Reversing Roe v. Wade Is Catastrophic

Okay. Deep breath. Politics. No one wants to talk about it and everyone is. No one wants to get into debate, because we don’t know how. Everyone is always right and nobody is, because NO ONE is everyone, and no one can put themselves into anyone else’s shoes the way Atticus Finch wishes we could. We say we do. We say we don’t judge. We say one thing but do another. That’s the problem. Reversing Roe v. Wade is catastrophic. Period. (NYTimes article if you’ve been living in a cave https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/abortion-law-alabama.html).
 
But before I give my opinion, and that is what my blogs are, so move right past this one if you don’t want to roll your sleeves up and get a little dirty,  I want to point out a couple points of fact. “Mr. Johnston, who drafted the Alabama bill…” Problem #1. MR. Johnston. I’m not even arguing that point.What state has the worst schools? You guessed it. While Lousianna is the worst, Alabama ranks 44. Alabama’s math scores ranked 50th, one shy of the bottom of the list. Alabama came in 43rd when it came to reading scores. Alabama came in 43rd when it came to reading scores. Alabama ranked 36th when it comes to state spending on education. (https://www.al.com/news/2017/08/alabamas_schools_ranked_8th_wo.html)Alabama’s history is a painful one and it keeps on keeping on. Let’s not pretend we don’t know that. The publisher of a small local newspaper in Alabama penned an editorial calling for the Ku Klux Klan to "ride again" is a prime example (NPR.org). Read full article here: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/697694443/alabama-publisher-who-called-for-kkk-to-ride-again-is-replaced-by-black-woman.Further, Alabama ranks low in almost every category we care about: Health Care #46 Education #50 Economy #45 Opportunity #45 Crime #46. (USNews.com)And sadly, too, Alabama is the sixth poorest state in the U.S. (BirminghamTimes.com)
Are you making the connections?

The topic of abortion is never an easy one. No one advocates excitedly, spiritedly and with great glee and happiness for such a thing. No one is excited about abortion. No one cheers for it. NO ONE. It’s messy. It’s ugly. It’s leveled with nuances and grey spots and circumstances and a myriad of factors, and nothing about it is black or white. Can we not agree on that?

What we differ on is what constitutes life. The embryo, the fetus, a baby…all that is debatable, but science has pretty much proven that too. So let me point out something else. Non-Christian faiths make up only 1% of Alabama by every consensus out there. Making another connection? I hope so. No religion should guide political or human rights decisions. That is yet another fact. The biggest thing I want people to think about today is that what comes with these facts I’ve outlined above. If you say ‘they’ have no voice in the womb and we must protect them, then the flip of that is true as well once they are actually a living, breathing person. Children being born into these circumstances is ALSO of no will of their own, and their chances are not great--possible, of course, I will concede--but shall I list the facts regarding unwanted children, overflow of adoption clinics, and how poverty and lack of education ranks into these chances?

Let’s put it more succinctly then: They have no voice against child abuse. They have no voice against poverty. They have no voice against hunger. They have no voice against racism. They have no voice against poor education. They have no voice against health. They have no voice against violence. They have no voice against homelessness. They have no voice to be unwanted or loved. They. Have. No. Voice.
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You tell me which is worse? Let’s THINK about that.