Thread by @zugzwanged

We must bear in mind the degree to which abortion is like a block in a Jenga tower of social evils and injustices. It is an evil injustice that plays some part in undergirding others in the areas of sexual relations, marriage, gender relations and ideology, economics, etc.

The weight of the evil injustice of abortion is also supported in part by other injustices. It becomes a lot more thinkable when you have our views about and social practices and forms surrounding marriage, economics, gender, sexual relations, etc.

Remove the block of abortion from the tower and suddenly those other evils and injustices may become a lot less stable, or be forced to be a lot more load-bearing. If the tower collapses, many lives will be destroyed.

Part of the challenge of dealing with issues like abortion is that, as blocks in such a tower, their removal can increase the pressure of other evils and injustices. Many people understandably justify abortion precisely as that which relieves their pressure.

The larger tower of injustices needs to be dismantled, as the mere removal of a key block from it, important though it is, will likely accentuate injustices elsewhere in the system, leaving people under the delusion that it was a good and a form of justice.

Towers of evils and injustice are inherently unstable, but injustices and evils do tend to compound themselves. Like lies, one injustice or evil tends to encourage other injustices or evils to back it up, until there is a great edifice of lies and wrongs.

Remove one element from such an edifice and it all can topple.

Part of the warning of Christ is that, if we do not build our lives on the rock of his true words, we will find that our lives and societies will collapse when their sandy foundation of lies and injustice is tested.