If you want to defend the unborn, picketing is not the way to do it. That’s the easy way out – hold up a sign for a few hours, hurt those who are already victims, show your gore pornography to the world, pack in your billboards and signs and call it a good day’s work. What are you affecting? Nothing. Go and make abortion a truly undesirable thing for everyone, not just the people on the sidewalk – then, and only then, will you be able to claim a victory for the ‘pro-life’ side. Make life a better option, not just another tragedy.
I do not claim that abortion is good; only that it is, perhaps, the lesser evil to choose. I don’t like the fact that many have to choose it over whatever alternatives there may be. But until it is the utter least of those alternatives, you’re doing nothing, nothing at all, except stroking your own egos, venting your disapproval on people who have likely already felt that lash from others. You have better things to do with your time than that, I hope and pray, in my own fashion. Go and make abortion unnecessary. Make it the worst of all choices. Make the world a better place for having every possible infant brought to term, for mothers, fathers, children, everyone. Until you can and will and do that, you’re no warrior for good, but only another oppressor.
Do it. Change the world, not through picketing or legislation, but through your own good – change it, and make it better. This isn’t itself a necessity; it is only so because of our condition, that we are imperfect and fallen. Change it, bring us closer to whatever you consider Good, and make this distressing fact a thing no longer needed.
