A twitterbate has begun with @pastortrav, but I don’t want to have a twitter stream dominated by back and forth, so I’m opening this blog thread.
some highlights from the twitterspehere:
@dlature BTW, let me know when you come across unborn aggressors that deserve nationally funded retaliation on the battlefield of the womb. (link: http://bit.ly/3TnPBa )
@dlature I have a problem w/unjustified war against innocents (i.e. Pol Pot). Likewise, I grieve 4 present US taxpayer funded Killing Fields ( http://bit.ly/2cAruG )
RT @pastortrav: @knightopia "so you can treat your ailments" Much more than "ailments" is at stake.
RT @pastortrav: not MY health care–it’s millions’ health care–and abortion issue is plan option, not the qtn of publicopt or not
RT @pastortrav: Can you sleep at night – trade child’s right 2 exist 4 your personal health?//my point: can you re: NOT protesting wars?
@dlature Can you sleep at night knowing you traded a child’s right 2 exist (and coerced me to fund that act) 4 your personal health?
RT @pastortrav: Calls 4 social justice r incongruent when advocate 4 only SOME of the oppressed. //this inlcude victims of war?
Me: RT @knightopia: praying 4 vote on hc reform today; I support the #publicoption (going 2 need it soon myself!) //me 2! thanks Steve
from @knightopia praying for the House vote on health care reform today … I support the #publicoption (and now I’m going to need it soon myself!) http://bit.ly/1pxjgG
well that ended rather abruptly, eh?
Re; “pol pot”
Nothing since? Iraq comes to mind. Afghanistan as well.
“nationally funded retaliation on the battlefield of the womb”
Problem there is that you keep ignring how the “battlefield” is brought to the neighborhoods, resulting in countless numbers of innocent civilian deaths. Is it REALLY that easy to discount one in leui of the unjustified abortions (if we talk of “unjustifiable” wars as the only ones tobe “concerned” with, then we must also attach “unjustified” to the specific abortion, right? I happen to think that, as I said earlier, there are hardly any that really are justified. One is a matter finally “resolved” by the “choice” of the woman, the other “resolved” on the national altar of the “sacred duty”of war. Both commit atrocities. I don’t see too many “crossovers” from anti-abortion to anti-war (and yes, the other way round– that too is a problme)
“BTW, let me know when you come across unborn aggressors that deserve nationally funded retaliation on the battlefield of the womb”
Travis,
How about the already born? And , for that matter, unborn killed along with their mothers through war visited on civilians that , again and again, are justified as “that’s war” and “regrettable”. Same thing as “mother’s right to choose” in almost every case. It’s stipulating a right of one over another. IN the case of war, it is OUR convenience and “choice” that we can declare whose deaths are “justifiable” in order to furher some nationalistic aim.
I don’t believe in abortion, and I don’t believe in war. Both elicit lame excuses (and in very rare circumstances, become only slightly less “selfish” and stop greater evils). I cannot abide such talk of “respect for life” when thast goes out the window under a rubric of nationalistic self-centeredness. It is for the “convenience” and good of “the country” that certain populations are doomed to die for US and our interests. Until I see the anti-abortion activists lending their voices also to other “justifiable” killings (ie war), I cannot consider them in ANY way “pro-life”.