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It's all over, and I'm standing pretty, in this dust that was a city.
Driving home from work this morning, I ended up stopped at a red light. Glancing around in the sunny light, I noticed a group of about 20 people gathered on the lawn in front of a building. It took a second and third glance to finally realise they were abortion protestors, standing in front of the gates to a Planned Parenthood building.
They were all white, probably upper middle class (you don't get huge laminated posters at Kinko's for free). One of them was kneeling, I'm guessing she was praying for the souls of all those unborn children.
And it hit me.
What hypocrites those people are. They stand there, in their clothing bought from stores like Famous-Barr and Dillards and Lord and Taylor, and they protest.
I would love to see them doing something that might actually make a difference.
Instead of standing on a lawn, let's see them go into the city, to dirty and disused areas, and find the runaways, the strays, the teens who get sucked into prostitution and drugs.
Planned Parenthood. For all I know, PP is Pepsi Co, making women drink Coca Cola while they're pregnant, so their children will be allergic to Coke.
What I do know is they're providing a service, in a rather lower class neighborhood (ranges from lower class to lower middle class). Most of the people who go there probably do it out of necessity--they can't afford another mouth to feed. Or they're scoring free condoms and birth control.
Maybe they're dealing crack there. I haven't a clue.
But these 20 people are standing there, protesting, harassing people who provide a service--endangering their lives. And for what?
So they can feel self-righteous and moral.
If they really were moral, they'd be doing something to help the children who ARE alive. Who need love and support, but don't get it because they're orphaned/runaways/living in an abusive home. Put whatever word there you want. They could make a difference. A *good* difference.
But they aren't.
I find that sad.
They were all white, probably upper middle class (you don't get huge laminated posters at Kinko's for free). One of them was kneeling, I'm guessing she was praying for the souls of all those unborn children.
And it hit me.
What hypocrites those people are. They stand there, in their clothing bought from stores like Famous-Barr and Dillards and Lord and Taylor, and they protest.
I would love to see them doing something that might actually make a difference.
Instead of standing on a lawn, let's see them go into the city, to dirty and disused areas, and find the runaways, the strays, the teens who get sucked into prostitution and drugs.
Planned Parenthood. For all I know, PP is Pepsi Co, making women drink Coca Cola while they're pregnant, so their children will be allergic to Coke.
What I do know is they're providing a service, in a rather lower class neighborhood (ranges from lower class to lower middle class). Most of the people who go there probably do it out of necessity--they can't afford another mouth to feed. Or they're scoring free condoms and birth control.
Maybe they're dealing crack there. I haven't a clue.
But these 20 people are standing there, protesting, harassing people who provide a service--endangering their lives. And for what?
So they can feel self-righteous and moral.
If they really were moral, they'd be doing something to help the children who ARE alive. Who need love and support, but don't get it because they're orphaned/runaways/living in an abusive home. Put whatever word there you want. They could make a difference. A *good* difference.
But they aren't.
I find that sad.