I have been a pro-life activist since I was a kid. Most pro-aborts assume my family got me involved but that is not the case. I got MY family involved. I was so horrified to see broken baby bodies and even more horrified when I discovered people justified those broken baby bodies.
My pro-life convictions do not stop with babies. I believe my pro-life convictions began with my education in history. As I have mentioned, my father has an outstanding library. As a child, I grew up reading his books on the Holocaust that tried to explain how such a terrible evil could have been allowed and justified by an educated society. I always asked myself when I read the books about The Righteous, those who saved Jews and others targeted by the Nazis, if I would be brave enough to do that. I was horrified at the stories of desperate people trying to flee and they were not given sanctuary by other countries. That lack of sanctuary was a death sentence for people. Worse, though, was that normal every day people completely agreed to and justified the Holocaust.
The whole concept of human beings being “illegal” makes my skin crawl. Whether they are unwanted unborn children, citizens who have had their citizenship stripped from them, or the latest craze in society, undocumented immigrants, what folks like to call “illegal aliens” as if they are some other species from a different planet, the rhetoric never changes. People will rightly point out that unlike unwanted babies or Jews in Nazi Germany, illegal immigrants are not sentenced to death. Although, how anyone can make such a claim since most of these immigrants are from the poorest regions of Mexico and Latin America, is beyond me. The distinction is a big one. But for those who are being hunted until they are caught by law enforcement, I imagine the fear and uncertainty are similar.
Since unborn children are not persons under the law, they are not entitled to the rights under the law. Since undocumented immigrants did not obtain legal papers, they are also not entitled to the rights under the law. That is the law. Women also argue that the fetus did NOT obtain that woman’s permission to reside in her womb. The law agrees with her.
About three years ago, my husband & I were visiting family in LA when we were stopped by a random police check point. They were asking drivers for identification. I was outraged that in the United States of America we would have id checks in the street! And then, as a newly married woman, I became aware that my last name was Hispanic. By marriage I became the suspected. The only way to tell a legal human from an illegal human is to ask, and since most illegal humans in our society have brown skin and speak with an accent, any Hispanic is a target. My husband gave the police officer his military id. Thankfully, my husband is a white Hispanic so he is not as targeted as much as the brown ones are.
My friends, when they make any human being illegal, we all can be illegal. It is arbitrary. We either have human rights or we do not. The Constitution does NOT give me my rights. My right are INALIENABLE and GOD given. For what ever reason, humans NEED to have “the other.” Someone to pick on, someone to eradicate. I don’t know why we have this need. But watching the news lately about the illegal human being crackdown that DENIES HOUSING, FOOD, TRANSPORTATION to HUMAN BEINGS, in my old college town where I lived for FOUR years and elsewhere around the country makes me sick. And as the illegal human beings in my city gather in private homes to pray the Rosary and beg God’s protection on them from being targeted by the city police as one Assemblyman wants to do, I feel helpless. So I join them in prayer.
The day that human beings can cross nations’ borders as easily as a bag of chips or a pair of Nikes, will be a blessed day indeed.
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