The movement to end abortion in this country and to block birth control in a supposedly effort to stop unborn fetuses or even the possible seeds of reproduction, from being aborted, shows much passion but questionable compassion of conservatives.
Abortion clinics are alive with protest and even the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court has stepped in to protect the right of protestors to not only speak their minds but the freedom to commit violence in the name of stopping abortions, even if that was not their direct intent. That same court has also taken an unprecedented step to give to certain businesses the right to deny birth control to women, on the premises that those businesses have what they judge to be “sincere religious beliefs”.
The compassion of these so-called pro-life protestors, will go to any lengths to protect unborn fetuses and even the very seeds those fetuses grow from. However, once those fetuses are delivered into a world that is full of hungry and dying children, then they are on their own because compassion from conservatives ends when life begins outside of the mother.
Not only does the compassion for children end at birth but also at the U.S. border, as white-hot anger at undocumented children wanting to escape the violence of their own countries and join their families in the U.S.A. has shown its ugly head recently, with conservative protestors showing up in droves to block buses full of those children.
It amazes me that there is so much hate for small children who are actually living in this world of ours and facing the terrible violence going on in Latin American countries because of drug cartels and the corrupt governments that support them. This is all coming from the same side of the fence as those with seemingly overwhelming compassion for unborn fetuses or even the possible seeds that may grow into those unborn fetuses.
African children are dying by the thousands daily because of hunger and disease. Unfortunately, those children were not born here in the U.S. so for that reason they do not attract the sympathy of pro-life protestors who have better things to do than work to feed those black babies. For them, it is better to scream and yell about children yet to be born to mothers who may not even be able to feed those children once born.
Misplaced priorities come to mind. Why is it that children who have not even entered into this world, gain more attention than those who are here and suffering from the same conservative politics that has kept them from being fed properly in the first place? Those same conservative Republicans and their leaders in Congress want to cut social programs, even school lunch programs, in order to cut more taxes for wealthy corporations. Those same conservative Republicans want to load up all those undocumented children, no matter what the circumstances, and send them back to where they came from, to face the violence and overwhelming poverty of their homelands, instead of working to do what is right by passing a comprehensive immigration bill.
Understandably, there are problems with immigration but the least you would expect is a bit of compassion from conservatives when it comes to children, or even their parents, who came here in the first place to seek a better life than the squalid and perilous conditions of the places they have traveled so far from to reach our borders.
Those same conservatives will proudly proclaim, “This is a Christian nation” and yet the compassion that Jesus - the object of their faith - showed to the hungry multitude that followed him seems the act of one of those “bleeding heart liberals” instead of those same conservative Bible thumpers who scorns those same liberals so disdainfully.
Right is left and left is right, in this nation of ours. Hypocrisy is difficult to see when it comes from one’s own sense of godliness. The mirror is perhaps clouded with self-righteous anger that conservative Republicans cannot see the ridiculousness of their absolute astuteness of what side their God stand on when it comes to hungry children and the needs of the poor. Supporting wealthy interests while despising those who struggle to feed their families each day on meager food stamps may seem like a path to Heaven but the road to Hell is paved with such good intentions.
God may have blessed America but it is not because Republicans spend their days finding ways to bless the rich. God blesses America because we have always been a nation that has opened our arms and our compassion to the masses of poverty-stricken people of all races, creeds, and religion from all around the world. We are a nation of immigrants who have come together under a common bond, which is to be free, free to live, work, prosper, and pursue happiness anyway that we see fit.
God blesses America because of the compassion we show to all people, even those beyond our border and those who come seeking a better life. Perhaps when we grow too cold to accommodate even innocent children, those blessings we have so often taken for granted, will gradually subside. Perhaps finally, as conservatives have long wanted, we will have secured our border from those who would come knocking, but also perhaps, within those same borders, we will have sealed the fate of the cursed instead of the blessed. Yet, only God, though he is the God of high and mighty conservatives or the God of small, defenseless children, knows for sure.
This is a republish from my website: Fidlerten Place