Around Easter, a video went viral of a woman, evidently homeless and high on drugs, giving birth to a baby on the streets of San Francisco. Abortion is evil and the ending of a human life, this is something I firmly believe. But I can also understand why someone watching that video could conclude that it might have been better for that child not to be born. I don’t agree, but I get it.
Euphemisms hide pain, talking points exacerbate it, and neither end the underlying problems.
Watching the video, I thought of my own godson born with drugs in his system, nearly smothered to death by his birth mother within a month of his birth. These are not situations that should be relegated to right versus left talking points. These are people who need on-the-ground help that communities, including faith-based ministries, can give them, if we have the political and moral will to do so.
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