"Why should I care?"

I was having a conversation with my mother, who remains quite liberal on the subject of abortion, yesterday. She said, "Why do you care so much about horse abortions? Aren't human abortions worse?"

Well, that would be common sense, right? Wrong. Death is death. Murder is murder. Abortion is abortion. Make no distinctions between them.

When Noah loaded up two of every animal on the ark, how horrified would he have been if he had known that a few thousand years later, we'd just ignore the needs of little horse fetuses.

There is a pretty good chance that one of his horses was pregnant on that ark. I'd love to have a time machine and go back and talk to Noah. "Hey, Noah, you know those horses that you love? Yeah, in a few thousands years we will still care about their offspring -- provided they are OUT of the womb, that is."

Noah would be disgusted. I'm disgusted. My colleagues on this blog are disgusted. Are you?

I'll leave you with this quote from the story of Noah's Ark in Genesis:

"And of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you." (Genesis 6:19)

Did God say, "Oh, by the way, if one of those two horses is pregnant and the fetus dies, don't worry about it"? No. There is no mention of death in that beautiful verse. Only life.

-- HW