I'm silent today. and usually, i would take that as far as to not communicate at all to the greatest possible extent (meaning no blogging) but i was thinking about it and decided to blog while my mind is on the subject.
so since i have no red duct tape on which to write LIFE and place over my mouth for the day, i settled for making a shirt to showing what i'm silent for. On the front it says "As a former fetus, I oppose abortion." and on the back it says, "..because a person's a person, no matter how small. Pro-LIFE day of Silent Solidarity 2008." it's handy for explaining to people without talking why i'm not talking.
so, anyway, as i was in the bathroom earlier today, consciously not talking or singing (which is excessively uncommon for me), i started thinking. Not having a voice means so much more than not being able to communicate. Even on an interpersonal level, it means never being able to bless someone with your words or with a song. It means never being able to speak for yourself, and you're that much more easily ignored. Proverbially, it's being unable to make a difference; it's crippling. but even so much more than that... on a personal level. You can't sing along to your favorite song. you can't pray aloud, or voice your thoughts to God. Honestly i think not being able to sing is the biggest thing, way bigger than not being able to talk to anyone. that's relatively easy, unless you're focused on something else and let a word slip without thinking (i've done that a couple of times today). but having a song in your head that you want to just sing, but you can't because you're silent. and i'm choosing to be silent. what about the millions of babies that have been aborted, and no one on this earth will ever hear their song? that's huge.
yeah, maybe what i'm doing is "cute". maybe my t-shirt is witty. maybe some jokes using "pro-choice" advocates as the punch line are funny, but the issue is not. it's not cute, it's not funny, it's not passive, and it's not minor. I've heard people criticized because they base their voting solely on the issue of abortion... because it's "just one issue". well so is tax rates, and business reform. but it's not ridiculous to base your voting on one issue when the issue's your money, is it? no, it's only ridiculous when the issue is someone else's life.
so i guess to me even more than the concept of giving up my voice for the innocent children who dont get one, the lesson in this is think before you speak. think twice.
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Dr. Seuss's quote, "A person's a person, no matter how small," was used by anti-abortionists while he was writing childrens books, and he sued them for it, 'cause he was pro-choice. I thought that was weird.
My mom would've been aborted if it had been legal when my grandma was having her. This means that I wouldn't have been around.
The main argument is whether life starts at conception, or later. If you get an abortion, you're absolutely positively making actions to STOP life from happening. If someone is pregnant, that means that life will come. I'm prepping for inevitable talks about it when I go to college.
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