hypocrisy and abortion
aliza250 shared this link about women who are opposed to abortion but who have abortions. Some are very active in anti-abortion organizations. And some continue to actively oppose abortion rights even after their procedures, some even after multiple procedures. A couple of bits provoke me to comment.The medical director at a Dallas abortion clinic told this story: A white woman from an affluent north Dallas neighborhood brought her black maid in for an abortion and paid for it. While the maid was in a counseling session, a commotion was heard in the waiting room outside. The maid's employer was handing out anti-abortion leaflets to other women waiting for abortions.
Assuming that the affluent, white employer wouldn't be comfortable driving to a clinic in a black neighborhood, and hence most of the women waiting were white, did this woman think that abortions were OK for people of color, but not for people like herself? Was she practicing eugenics? Or did she just not want to have to hire a new maid, because good help is hard to find? Her employee would have new priorities in her life. And even if she wanted/needed to continue working as a maid, she probably wasn't earning enough to pay for child care.
And in a grateful letter from a client who realized her pre-abortion anti-abortion beliefs were hypocritcal:I have never met a group of purely non-judgmental people like yourselves.
That reminds us that these uncaring, restricting, thoughtless attitudes are mostly taught, spread, inherited. If this woman has "never met a group of purely non-judgmental people", she needs new friends -- people open to new ideas and capable of independent thought -- and her family must be intellectually inbred too. There are absolutes of right and wrong, but so much of life doesn't fit neatly into these absolutes. And even if your life does fit into your absolutes, you can't redefine other people's lives to fit. You'll even find people who don't agree with your absolutes. Does that make them wrong? Or maybe you?
You can have whatever beliefs you like. But you do not have the right to impose your beliefs on others. That's supposedly one of the founding principles of this nation.
Assuming that the affluent, white employer wouldn't be comfortable driving to a clinic in a black neighborhood, and hence most of the women waiting were white, did this woman think that abortions were OK for people of color, but not for people like herself? Was she practicing eugenics? Or did she just not want to have to hire a new maid, because good help is hard to find? Her employee would have new priorities in her life. And even if she wanted/needed to continue working as a maid, she probably wasn't earning enough to pay for child care.
And in a grateful letter from a client who realized her pre-abortion anti-abortion beliefs were hypocritcal:I have never met a group of purely non-judgmental people like yourselves.
That reminds us that these uncaring, restricting, thoughtless attitudes are mostly taught, spread, inherited. If this woman has "never met a group of purely non-judgmental people", she needs new friends -- people open to new ideas and capable of independent thought -- and her family must be intellectually inbred too. There are absolutes of right and wrong, but so much of life doesn't fit neatly into these absolutes. And even if your life does fit into your absolutes, you can't redefine other people's lives to fit. You'll even find people who don't agree with your absolutes. Does that make them wrong? Or maybe you?
You can have whatever beliefs you like. But you do not have the right to impose your beliefs on others. That's supposedly one of the founding principles of this nation.