I am conflicted.
I have for years considered that Abortion is murder, and yet I have not acted in a manner consistent with that belief. If I truly believed it, I would spend every waking moment standing in front of abortion clinics and laying my life down to protect the unborn.
Obviously in my heart of hearts, I don't consider it murder. Neither do most people who call it murder. We must be deluding ourselves. It's something bad, but it can't be murder. We simply don't act as if it is.
It goes on all around us and we go to work and go golfing and we go to movies and when some whack job takes an action to actually stop it, to actually act as if Abortion were REALLY murder, we get all huffy and call his act "heinous" and condemn him for taking the law into his own hands, etc.
Well all of us who called Tiller a murderer, but were unwilling to do all that we could to stop him are culpable in some way for molding the mind of the man who actually did.
Words have meaning and words have consequences.
That is a monumental load of BS.
“I have for years considered that Abortion is murder, and yet I have not acted in a manner consistent with that belief. If I truly believed it, I would spend every waking moment standing in front of abortion clinics and laying my life down to protect the unborn.”
I think the mistake you are making here is in thinking there is only one way to oppose abortion. You do not have to stand in front of an abortion clinic to lay out your objection and defense of the unborn. So you stand in front of one clinic and the clinic across town keeps on running as if your protest was never happening. The fact that it is legal, precludes you from defending the unborn in any number of ways.
You can support life by supporting churches and organizations who are able to pool resources to campaign against abortion in a way that one person cannot. You can support life by refusing to accept politicians who are pro-choice as viable candidates worthy of your vote. You can support life by talking to your friends and family and influencing the way they think about abortion.
Don’t think because you do not respond in the most extreme way, that your voice doesn’t matter. It does.