Overwhelming grief

[pegkerr]

Rob, who had been watching the election returns all night, came and woke me about forty-five minutes ago and held me while I cried.

Injustice won. Now this man who has made an unprecedented power grab for the executive branch, who authorized the use of torture, who has trampled on civil rights, who has lied and lied and lied to the American people, is going to have the chance to reshape the Supreme Court for the next generation. Bigotry won. I cannot bear it that the bigot's side of the argument on a civil rights issue that I care so deeply about, gay civil rights, was what pushed conservative voters out to the polls to return this man to the White House. Stupidity won. He totally lost track of who attacked us on September 11, he has ignored the threat of North Korea and Iran, he has failed to guard the borders, he has taken us into an unjust, immoral and unnecessary war which has killed our people and a hundred thousand Iraquis, spent our resources, inflamed the world against us and multiplied our enemies a thousandfold.

And we have rewarded him by returning him to the White House.

I have never been so ashamed to be called a Christian, if people who call themselves Christian feel that they are honoring their religion by voting for him over John Kerry. I have never been so afraid and so grief-stricken for my country, no, not even after September 11, because this time we are administering the wound to ourselves.

Comments

[lkw18.livejournal.com]

I personally would never have an abortion. I am adopted and so is my sister and I know a lot of people who are as well. I think adoption is a wonderful, beautiful thing. However the issue of abortion is about choice. The government does not own a women's body. Period. A woman's body is all she has in this world, it is sacred and it is hers. The government does deserve to have that much power.

By legalizing abortion, the government is not directly responsible for the death of the fetus. The woman is and she will have to meet her Creator one day and face the consequences. However with the death penalty the government is completely responsible.

[lkw18.livejournal.com]

Typo: Government does NOT deserve to have that much power.

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

Here, here!!!

That's it in a nutshell, no one deserves to have that much power, except oneself.

I'm a big believer that if the pro-life people would put that much effort into making adoption a better run system, and work on the taboo that our society seems to have for people who give children up to adoption, they'd be doing far more for their own cause.

I had a stepsister that went through hell in a small rural town when she got pregnant as a teenager and went and selected the couple that adopted her son, on the other hand, her best friend just quietly had an abortion.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I think that you're absolutely right that one area where we can come together is that both sides on the abortion issue should help to make adoption an attractive option for people who are dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. That is clearly one way that people on the opposite sides of a question can "come together."

One thing about abortion that pro-lifers often overlook but must keep in mind: it is critically important that doctors continue to be trained to learn how to do abortions, no matter how you feel about abortions. And that is because a third of pregnancies end in miscarriages. You may be pro-life, you may never intend to have an abortion--but you may miscarry your desperately wanted baby, and then you're gonna need a D&C, whether you like it or not. It isn't a moral issue, it's a medical issue. In a miscarriage, the life has already been lost, whether the mother wanted it or not. But if every doctor who was willing to be trained to do D&Cs have been driven out of the state, what the hell are you supposed to do?