But what about the babies?
Seriously ladies, this has to stop. Ashley Judd speaks out against Sarah Palin’s arial wolf shooting policy and Elizabeth Hasselbeck makes the immediate jump to abortion.
Granted, this happened on teevee but in this case it’s a true reflection of what happens in real life. It happens to me all the time. I say something about how our treatment of animals is obscene and the response (generally from people on the Christian right) is to immediately change the subject to abortion. If you want to talk about abortion, fine, let’s talk about abortion. I think it’s obscene. That doesn’t change the fact that what we do to animals is also obscene. Anytime we are content with knowingly and willingly choosing to make the world a more violent, merciless place, I think it’s obscene.
It’s not a perfect world and animal rights legislation won’t fix it, neither will anti-abortion legislation. But the fact that we don’t have all the power and all the answers shouldn’t be justification for not facing the questions and working within the bounds of what we do know and can change now.
Being against abortion doesn’t change nor justify the fact that we still act like savages towards animals. Being against animal cruelty doesn’t change nor justify the fact that we still act like savages towards the un-born (and the recently born, and the fully grown, need I go on?)
Animal rights women decry the violence done against the innocent, anti-abortion women decry the violence done against the innocent. We’re only not on the same side when we’re more interested in throwing bricks at everyone else’s savagery than admitting to and letting go of our own.
Divide and Conquer … check.
Enough already.
God help us see the enemy within.
