Denial of Truly Basic Healthcare
(note: not birth control, but actual healthcare)
Today is the International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Terri Schindler Shiavo and All the Vulnerable. It marks the anniversary of the day she succumbed to death not through being allowed to pass away at the natural end of her life but by being actively starved and dehydrated to death in a “healthcare” facility with the permission of our courts. Hopefully her story and others like it will fan the flames of love and protective instinct in all of us for the most vulnerable in our midst: the disabled, those in the womb, the enslaved and trafficked.
In her memory, here is a link to an excellent lecture on at least 10 reasons why persecuting these vulnerable groups is immoral, illogical, and at minimum lacking in compassion, empathy and inclusiveness. The first part of the talk masterfully juxtaposes the Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decisions to illustrate the faulty reasoning of slavery, abortion, genocide, and other forms of oppression. The rest goes over in detail several universal principles that are violated by abortion and related acts and why those of us who have been proponents or participants in any of those acts must open our hearts and minds to allow in truth. The talk is 1 hour and 20 minutes long, but I recommend starting at 12:17 of the recording because that is when the lecture begins. (Up to that point it is simply introductions to the audio, to the presenter, to the presenter’s book, method, etc.) http://
For those who have experienced oppression of the vulnerable, whether as victim, spectator or participant, my heart goes out to you. I have been in all of those positions as well. All I can offer is: be hopeful. Truth burns as it heals.
(note: not birth control, but actual healthcare)
Today is the International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Terri Schindler Shiavo and All the Vulnerable. It marks the anniversary of the day she succumbed to death not through being allowed to pass away at the natural end of her life but by being actively starved and dehydrated to death in a “healthcare” facility with the permission of our courts. Hopefully her story and others like it will fan the flames of love and protective instinct in all of us for the most vulnerable in our midst: the disabled, those in the womb, the enslaved and trafficked.
In her memory, here is a link to an excellent lecture on at least 10 reasons why persecuting these vulnerable groups is immoral, illogical, and at minimum lacking in compassion, empathy and inclusiveness. The first part of the talk masterfully juxtaposes the Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decisions to illustrate the faulty reasoning of slavery, abortion, genocide, and other forms of oppression. The rest goes over in detail several universal principles that are violated by abortion and related acts and why those of us who have been proponents or participants in any of those acts must open our hearts and minds to allow in truth. The talk is 1 hour and 20 minutes long, but I recommend starting at 12:17 of the recording because that is when the lecture begins. (Up to that point it is simply introductions to the audio, to the presenter, to the presenter’s book, method, etc.) http://
For those who have experienced oppression of the vulnerable, whether as victim, spectator or participant, my heart goes out to you. I have been in all of those positions as well. All I can offer is: be hopeful. Truth burns as it heals.
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