killing me hardly

"what do you think about abortion?"
i could feel the tension growing in the plane. i dropped my head, acknowledging that we
had very different value systems for our lives. then i thought of a way to respond to
his question.
"you're jewish, right?" i asked.
"yes," he said defensively. "i told you i was!"
"do you know how hitler persuaded the german people to destroy more than six million
of your ancestors?"
the man looked at me expectantly, so i continued.
"he convinced them that jews were not human and then exterminated your people like rats."
"do you understand how americans enslaved, tortured, and killed millions of africans?
we dehumanized them so our constitution didn't apply to them, and then we treated them
worse than animals."
"how about the native americans?"
i pressed.
"do you have any idea how we managed to hunt indians like wild animals, drive them out
of their own land, burn their villages, rape their women, and slaughter their children?
do you have any clue how everyday people turned into cruel murderers?"
my jewish friend was silent, and his eyes were filling with tears as i made my point.
"we made people believe that native americans were wild savages, not real human beings,
and then we brutalized them without any conviction of wrongdoing! now do you understand
how we have persuaded mothers to kill their own babies? we took the word fetus, which
is the latin word for 'offspring,' and redefined it to dehumanize the unborn. we told
mothers, 'that is not really a baby you are carrying in your belly; it is a fetus,
tissue that suddenly forms into a human being just seconds before it exits the womb.'
in doing so, we were able to assert that, in the issue of abortion, there is only one
person's human rights to consider, and then we convinced mothers that disposing of
fetal tissue was a woman's right. our constitution no longer protects the unborn
because they are not real people. they are just lifeless blobs of tissue."
by now, tears were flowing down his cheeks.
"your people, the native americans, and the african americans should be the greatest
defenders of the unborn on the planet. after all, you know what it's like for society
to redefine you so that they can destroy your races. but ironically, your races have
the highest abortion rates in this country! somebody is still trying to exterminate
your people, and you don't even realize it. the names have changed, but the plot
remains the same!"


purity
the new moral revolution
kris vallotton