One wonders how we as a society have possibly come to this, but here we are.\u00a0<\/span>A celebration of death lauded as progressive, confessions of murder widely disseminated without legal consequence.\u00a0<\/span>Has social media done this to us?\u00a0<\/span>Have we been convinced that people hiding behind screens are the bravest kind of people? Are they untouchable by law because of an uprising of semi-anonymous public support?\u00a0<\/span>Do we really believe that people who type into a vacuum, devoid of personal interaction, facial expression, body language and physical proximity are the progressive among us?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bravery is not banding together to claim victory over the weak and innocent – bullying is. Bravery is not selfish and narrow-minded – fear is. Bravery involves sacrifice, consideration, love and loyalty. #ShoutYour<\/span>Adoption<\/span>\u00a0is bravery. #ShoutYourAbortion\u00a0advocates should be embarrassed to hear that word applied to them.<\/span><\/div>\n

While no one should go out of their way to lay guilt on someone who has done wrong, it is equally unhelpful to\u00a0celebrate that wrong.\u00a0As\u00a0<\/span>this article<\/span><\/a>\u00a0points out, abortion is a symptom of a problem, not a solution to a problem. \u00a0The fact that women feel they have no options, that society will not wait for them and will have no mercy on them; these are problems that cannot be ignored. A baby is not a problem, but somehow killing one has become seen as a way out of one. \u00a0<\/span>A celebration of abortion is a celebration of desperation. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The majority of women speaking out talk about timing, convenience, and opportunity. These are the reasons they chose abortion. This is not the “safe, legal, and rare” rhetoric so often touted by pro-choice advocates; this is something new, and far more sinister. This is selfishness glorified. \u00a0Where inconvenience or embarrassment is a celebrated reason for eliminating a baby, we have to step back and consider seriously where we are and where we want that logic to go.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We know there will be an uproar if we apply it to pets, though they are, by all accounts, wildly inconvienient. But will that horror extend to the elderly, or the mentally or physically infirm? Will it extend even to children? If inconvenience or embarrassment guide our decisions in more and more areas of life, our decisions will inevitably be made at the expense of the lives both within and around us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As a society, may we not indulge or encourage those who celebrate abortion.\u00a0<\/span>Let us celebrate life, not death.\u00a0<\/span>Let us use the words we know are true, words like “protect”, “value”, and “support”. \u00a0And let’s turn those words of truth into laws that can benefit all of Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent trending topic on Twitter goes by the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion.\u00a0Women are sharing why, when, and how much better their lives are now, because they literally got away with murder. \u00a0What started with two women and a shared Facebook post has\u00a0led many, many more to declare themselves proud of their decision to have an abortion. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3014,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[281,280,322],"tags":[79,362,361,363,317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}