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Perhaps the most controversial subject as it pertains to any candidate running for high office. The pro life/pro choice proponents are forever at odds. Sometimes, and unfortunately the issue, through its adherent activists on both sides, actually determines the very fate of a candidate.
Needless to say, no single dispute in the political arena should define the aggregate personal beliefs/convictions of any candidate. No one should be ostracized from a campaign based on one issue, no matter how important. It is the sum of all parts that makes for the best office-seeker. With that said, I am pro life. As humans we have evolved through time and been blessed with a brain and a mind – two sources of mental prowess that allow us to know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, preserving life and taking it. Clearly, the abortion issue is a moral one.
It does not belong in the political arena. It is a personal/private decision-making process in which no local, state, or Federal government has any business meddling or interfering. Whether it is a fourteen year old girl or a woman who has been raped – the circumstances are essentially the same. It becomes their decision, and when they die, they will appear before their maker and he, she or it will decide if they made the right or wrong decision. It is none of our business, while we are on this earth to judge anyone for their actions or supposed misdoings. Each of us needs to look in the mirror every day and ask the all important question – who am I to judge anyone else on this planet? Humbly, I would say, I have no right to judge anyone else. There is a fine line between constructive criticism (free speech) and judging others in our society. Remember that when you choose to judge someone that it could turn on you and you could be the next person to be judged. |
