"You Can Live if it Costs Me Nothing"
One might ask why the death of over one million babies a year commands far less attention than the death of a score of death row inmates.
And that's easy: Because it's easy on us. And it's all about us after all.
To be against the death penalty costs me - and society - nothing. "Tookie" Williams wasn't going to get out of jail. He wasn't going to kill again. And the cost of his trials and appeals far exceeded the cost of feeding and clothing him at state expense. This was easy. The protestors knew that neither their behavior or money was on the line. And so they ignore the innocent million and have a media circus over the guilty few. By all means let's end the death penalty, but let's not kid ourselves where the real problem lies.
To be against abortion costs. It costs men who want sex without consequences because if abortion were prohibited women would be less likely to take chances. It costs the young mother who has to deal with nine months of pregnancy followed by either years of care or the unnatural pain of separation in the form of an adoption. Homes for unwed mothers cost. Foster care costs. Yet abortion is far more expensive. It robs the woman of her conscience and her peace of mind, having to always live with the knowledge that she killed her own child. And most of all it costs a person their entire life.
Protestors outside courtrooms who think that holding candle-lit vigils are effective are fooling themselves because we see that it costs them little. So too the blogger who posts this post, because this costs me nothing. People are only influenced by the example of someone's privation for another, which is why Christ had to come to earth and die. The lack of that example - of our example - is why over a million children who live in a geographically dangerous place called the 'womb' are killed.
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