As my fellow advocates and I were standing there, a older man got out of a car. He yelled at my friend that we should be protesting up in Oakland (at a park I read later) against the war. My mind flashed back to Vietnam. I was wondering which war was under protest. I googled the information later and found out it was a protest against the defense budget. This bit of knowledge made the comments I suggested even more prophetic.
I asked the man, as he tried to open the theater door a few feet from where I was standing, if he wanted a resource card. He went off on me too.. telling me if I were really pro-life, I would be at the protest. I told him I am pro-life and have chosen the right to life as my advocacy. He told me I should be protesting the war and the death penalty and that woman have the right to do whatever they want with their bodies. (The law would not agree. Try injecting yourself with heroin. The law would have plenty to say and I bet he would too.)
Well- I am glad you mentioned the death penalty I told him as he still struggled to get into the door. It is a local theater. He is one of the actors. I know he is an actor because I asked him why he wasn't at the protest. He said he couldn't go because he had to work- he is an actor. Oh good, an actor who is working. He didn't know that I was going to my work after my time on the sidewalk. He didn't care. He didn't ask what I do for work nor why I stand and take time to advocate for non-violent choices to abortion.
I was glad he mentioned the death penalty. I was able to tell him I did help change the law in NJ. I got off a proverbial fence that so many sit on and wrote my representatives. I told them how I was found "guilty" of "incompetence" as a teacher. I told them how I should have had all the rights afforded me but my rights were violated. I told them how easy it was for people to lie and the evidence ignored. I told them I was a white woman in my 40's at the time and had the so called backing of a union. I told them I think everyone has a chance to change.. even if it means life in prison, as I am for justice. I told them my story. My representatives thanked me. ....An injustice for one so to speak.
I didn't say all that to the man..just the part of the advocating for change but I did tell him the law was changed, but not long after that my friend's son ended up on death row (Pennsylvania). He was found guilty by a judge of the deaths of three women and a child. Abortion factored into the whole scenario for that man. He paid for one of the dead women to have an abortion not long before he murdered the woman, her sister and the little girl. (The third adult victim had been from years before.) On a side note, there was no fair trial by a jury of his peers for the man.
Not knowing at the time of our brief encounter that the protest was on the defense budget, I asked him if he was against war, how did he feel about 3% of PP financial success being from abortion. He didn't answer. I asked again. The door still did not open and neither did he respond. Babies die in abortion. If it was the woman's body that would definitely die, she may make a more non-violent choice. Women do regret their choices for their bodies after the abortion. And they mourn the death of the child.
Then since he was concerned that others should protest against the war, I pointed out that during the Vietnam War, Dow Chemical (called baby killers back then) manufactured napalm. It was only 1% of their business but they were called baby killers. The actor could not do the math it seems. But I did know someone years ago who did. I met him as my neighbor in O.C., NJ. He was a biology teacher at Holy Spirit High School. He had worked for Dow Chemical when he first got out of college, but he quit, he told me, because of the napalm.
If you have a problem with deaths caused by war, how can you possibly accept the death of an unborn child with the lame and false reasoning that women have a right to do whatever they want to choose with their bodies. Try drinking out of a plastic straw (thrown in for good measure this morning) in some cities. Try getting an opioid today without a check of a state database. Try hugging a student in a classroom- male or female.
The righteous anti-war protester who wasn't going to the protest because he had to work - didn't answer any of my questions. He wouldn't even answer the name of the play in which he was performing. The door finally opened when another actor, who smiled at us, came along. He must have had the magic to open the door.
I include the definition of hypocrisy here: from Google: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
We can all be hypocritical, it is true. But regarding the turtle,
"Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." When you are willing to stick your neck out to educate others, make sure the closets are open and cleaned out.
Aborted babies are stuck between the hypocrisy of political correctness.
If only it were the woman's body, but a baby's body has different DNA and blood supply. A male child is carried in utero. A woman does not have a penis unless it is made of plastic or some other fake material.
All the world's a stage.. some are actors.
Marian R. Carlino
August 26, 2018
All the world's a stage.. some are actors.
Marian R. Carlino
August 26, 2018
