This is a thread about #TexasAbortionLaw or #TexasAbortionBan so sit back and hold on. ALSO if you do not read all the way to the end, you have no right to comment. I have long maintained that while I do not believe in abortion myself, I have no right to cast a vote...
...since in the end I will never directly have to deal with the issue or the repercussions thereof. In other words: "I am not a woman, ergo, I should not be telling a woman what she should or should not do with her body. This is my own PERSONAL FEELINGS. That being said...
...I woke up this morning and began reading things like a tweet that decries the last Doctor standing who performed something like a dozen or more abortions in the last hours before the ban went into effect...
The poster tweeted something like "Doctor kills equivalent of 2 classrooms" and I was horrified by this comparison. No, my liberal friends, not because its a gross exaggeration or some such but rather, because the idea of ending that many lives before they even had a chance...
...to begin, SHOULD be offensive. Another post I came across on another platform explained that #RoevWade was passed BEFORE the science of today could genuinely quantify what was going on within the womb. It explains how much more we know now, like baby heartbeats etc...
...Day after day we hear from one side it's about the mass slaughter of unborn children and the other says it is about women's rights and their right to healthcare, which I take issue with, but again...that is personal. I still maintain that if asked I will tell someone...
...my thoughts on the topic but I will not force my personal beliefs on others. Then you come to the case for what laws are made and then the conversation turns to something entirely different. Texas, has dutifully and lawfully passed a new law. This is legal. Period.
The vocal minority can shout as loud as they want and insult Texas lawmakers and those who voted them in, while states of little or no consequence threaten to do this and that and blah blah blah...in the end they are ALL #VirtueSignalling because what has happened here is legal.
Whether or not it is moral or "right" or "wrong" is inconsequential because it was done legally. So what do you do? Well, having discourse helps a lot. Talking through the issue is just as important. But more importantly I don't care what your opinion is liberal man...
...what I do care about is the obvious pain that our sisters who argue in favor of legal abortions must be going through. I can only imagine what it must feel like to believe you are personally under attack and the rights you have that feel so fragile are slipping away...
...I imagine it's not dissimilar to what Christians currently feel like as we face an embattled society that has been weaponized against us as well. WAIT-did he just compare women's healthcare issues with religious freedom!? No. What I did do, was compare the pain of one group...
...to the pain of another. I am also, equally sure that what women and christian's are going through is not unlike what our black brothers and sisters feel they have gone through, or our Native American peoples and the list goes on and one. What I'm trying to demonstrate here...
...is that we are all in pain and hurting from something. Wanna know what we do agree on? We agree that we should love. Definitions vary, perspective makes us all selfish in that regard but allow me to draw you a line to a definition of love that I think we can all agree with...
"Love suffers long and is kind;" meaning that we are patient with one another, or should be anyway. Choosing not only a righteous path but one of kindness and mercy to one another...
"...love does not envy;" instead of looking at what we do not have, let's encourage those around us instead of seeking to bring down "posers" or those who are successful. Instead lets lift one another up!
"...love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;" or arrogant. "Pride" is fine, but when that pride comes at the cost of the wellbeing or safety of others, it might be time to reevaluate. In wanting to be "seen" or "heard" are we silencing others?
"...does not behave rudely," we can discourse without disrespect. We used to do it all the time in bygone eras and nothing has changed that should make us feel as if name calling, vitriol and insults are necessary.
"...does not seek its own," in the search for "rights" we fail to realize that for every argument "won" someone has to "lose" instead, lets look at one another, agree to disagree and go on in peace. I have taken the "L" more times than I can count, simply to maintain peace...
"...is not provoked," whether you agree with any part of this thread, I will not enter anyone's "anger circle" and be drawn in. I am simply standing here beside you in support of what I can, and that is the idea that you are in as much pain as I am and I aknowledge that...
"...thinks no evil;" or holds things like slights against one another. I don't care what you have done or thrown against me, I will love you where you are and why you are.
"...does not rejoice in iniquity," Today, we're all about #CancelCulture against the offender, friends, it should be about those affected. Support each other, and be understanding of where someone else is and where they've been. Their "valley" may look nothing like yours...
"...but rejoices in the truth;" there is absolute truth in this world. The idea that there isn't, brings us the certainty of uncertainty. The belief that nothing matters or that our self curated "principles" are enough, regardless of how flimsy or flexible they might be...
"...bears all things," I will commit to standing with you during the hurt and rejoicing with you in the victory. Together, through love, we CAN endure. Together.
"...believes all things, hopes all things," rather than seeing you or you seeing me, as the enemy, let's agree to take one another at face value and strive to seek a better tomorrow in the hope of reconciliation through peace.
"...endures all things." My friends...this thread about abortion boils down to this...regardless of where you stand on the issue, please know I love you. I see you. I hear you. I may not always agree with you but I will ALWAYS discuss those things we don't agree about, in love.
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