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Fred Owens
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Neither side of the political aisle cares about a "seamless ethic of Life."
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/11/17/can-seamless-garment-approach-pro-life-issues-make-comeback-catholic-church
Notably, pro-Life conservatives (or as Sister Joan Chittester calls them, "pro-Birth" conservatives") don't give squat about their blunt refusal to promote policies that would provide everyone with decent lodging, adequate food, quality healthcare (regardless one's ability to pay), and all the other pro-peace, pro-abolition, pro-Life political initiatives which they also ignore.
What is most remarkable is that pro-Birth conservatives believe their consciences are titanium white, almost entirely because they are "pro-Birth" and therefore ultimately righteous.
Typically, the pro-Birth stance distills to a "Get-Out-Of-Hypocrisy Free" card.
Remarkably, when these same "conservatives" decide to hound pro-Choice advocates, they tear into them like lions at the Roman circus, accusing "the baby killers" of not feeling pangs of conscience for abortion issues they care "nothing" about.
Pro-Birthers' blunt refusal to consider Life "in the round" is structurally identical to what they see as baby killers' refusal to consider the view "from the uterus" - which, as they see it, is God's own view.
New Research Shows Most Pregnancies End In Spontaneous Abortion
Old Research Shows 10-20% Of Pregnancies End In Spontaneous Abortion
I propose that pro-Choice advocates and pro-Birth advocates come to this compromise solution; the mutual admission that each side has its own psychological shadow so deeply denied that they are -- at least for the foreseeable future -- unable to understand what "the other" side is talking about.
And since both "sides" are fundamentally identical in this regard, they "should" be able to agree to a "ceasefire" concerning issues-of-awareness over which no one seems to have no control.
Of course, if one believes people "on the right" -- and "the left" -- have control over these issues, then persuasion should be used, not force - certainly not en-force-ment of law, particularly when the Supreme Court has already pronounced on this issue and access to abortion is The Law of The Land."
If, in the Christian view, God-Providence eventually provides "all good things," then the final solution will come about when people across the political spectrum -- one by one -- undergo metanoia enabling them to understand the "other" person's "self-limitation," enabling acknowledgement that it is counterproductive to force any absolutist view on these two enduringly divergent psychological structures.
How The Values Of "Strict Father" -- Or "Indulgent Parent" -- Control Our Political Views
"What we have here is a failure to communicate..."
What is so perplexing in "all this" is that there are two different kinds of human beings -- perhaps hardwired -- locked into their positions just as most people are locked in their sexual identity.
Tell me...
Whether you're gay or straight, could YOU change your sexual orientation?
Tell me...
Until metanoia becomes widespread on both sides of the aisle you can either get an abortion if you believe that "body-sovereignty choice" is primary, or, you can refrain from getting an abortion if you believe survival of fetal life is primary.
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