America Should Hold All Life Sacred
My husband and I watched a movie this afternoon called “Thousand Cheers.” This movie was staged in World War II and brought to mind a time when America was great.
This movie portrays various individuals in all walks of life. Not only were there soldiers ready for war, but also entertainers of all sorts. The movie features renowned singers, musicians, and Hollywood actors as well as ordinary people earning a living and even circus performers. It was a reminder that the seriousness of the moment and love for our country provided for one common goal. That goal was a victory over evil. Our country was united and patriotic. It was great. Watching the movie brought to my mind the acronym which has become very misunderstood by some people.The G in MAGA stands for great. It always has, despite the mocking and disrespect that term sometimes receives. Many Americans, I feel, would love to see America united and patriotic again. Although I firmly believe that America is the greatest country in the world and my first choice always, our country is by no means united as it was in the 1940’s.
Since the present administration took charge in 2021, our country has had many changes and they have occurred swiftly. No news to anyone, everything costs more, Although I have always been a conservative shopper, buying groceries, household items, and gifts have become increasingly more challenging. Inflation keeps getting worse, but the large spending measures by the government contributing to inflation have not subsided! Our country is no longer energy independent and the energy companies are already talking of higher bills for the winter months.This talk of omitting fossil fuels too quickly will bring huge costs to citizens on fixed incomes.
Crime has increased almost everywhere. Our weekly newspaper has many stories of narcotic seizures in our rural areas and the fentanyl deaths are rising while drug cartels are getting richer. We keep hearing that the border is closed, but we know this is a falsehood. Many are not being apprehended at the border. We have to keep praying that harm will not come to our country. The crime rates keep going higher in the big cities also. Many perpetrators are in the streets the day after apprehension.
What do the Democrats have to offer? They don’t speak of all these problems and they even ignore their existence. Fear, many times with falsehoods, seems to be their only tactic. Is the abortion issue all they have to offer? During the movie, I received a text from a group advocating that MAGA promoters are trying to stop all abortions in alI fifty states. This is a lie. The citizens in the 1940 movie would have found it inconceivable that abortion would be the primary issue promoted by one political group in the 2022 election.
One of my pro-life emails that I received this week made an important observation. Why do we not focus on the one true vulnerable victim in abortion? Let us consider a tiny infant developing in the womb. There is no safer or more peaceful place in the world. The precious one is being nourished, protected, and guarded by its mother and creator, and hopefully by its father. In the case of abortion, something almost unthinkable happens. In some cases, the baby flinches away from the initial attack because it comes under physiological stress. Without going into the gory details here, we know that the procedure must be one of horror for the infant. The amount of pain experienced has been debated, but most experts agree that the pain is probably severe after twenty four weeks. As Ronald Reagan wrote in his paper “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation” in 1983, “The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny body to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother’s body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. As Mother Teresa has said, “The greatest misery of our time is the generalized abortion of children.”
We do need to makeAmerica and great again and a good start would be to hold all life sacred, including the life of our precious and most vulnerable.
Rita Quinton Schulenburg