Mutual human flourishing

Ann Voskamp adds her thoughts on abortion:

...In 2012, New York City had more black babies killed by abortions (31,328) than there were born (24,758). Sit with that. That number of black babies accounted for almost half of all abortions in New York City. More blacks aborted than were born. Three American university researchers discovered that Planned Parenthood’s “primary consideration in placement of centres is not poverty but the percentage of blacks in the area.” Do we really believe #BlackLivesMatter?

Then human black lives in the womb matter.

And when we say that Human Life in the Womb Matters — it doesn’t mean then that the lives of Women in hard places don’t matter.

When we say that Womb Lives Matter — it doesn’t for one iota of a moment mean that women’s lives don’t count, don’t have a voice, don’t matter. When we say that Womb Lives Matter, we aren’t saying that only pre-born people matter and women don’t —- we are saying that pre-born people matter equally too.

It’s part of the DNA of true social justice: Humanity believes in mutual human flourishing — in the flourishing of all human beings.

History, genocides, Nazism, racism, haven’t they all proved at the very least this to humanity: It’s when we dehumanize anyone, that we can legitimize anything.

“If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget” to cover “dissections” and “splitting the specimens into different shipments,” the director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, says. “It’s all just a matter of line items.”

Line items?

...But even now, after 5 released undercover videos exposing the dissecting of human bodies for financial gains by Planned Parenthood, 53 percent of respondents said they had not heard about the Planned Parenthood story at all.

...“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil… Not to speak is to speak. Not to act, is to act.” [Bonhoeffer]

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