Personally, I feel that neither side to the abortion debate ever proposing to build resources for removing living embryos faster, safer and cheaper than dead ones, means they’d all prefer for some life to suffer than to see value in all life.
The loudest voices on both sides insist that their own personal prerogative is no less important than what’s undergone by victims of circumstances actually beyond their own control. Self-determination is a basic human right, but ends when diminishing the life of another. Forcing a rape case to carry a fertilized egg to term is torturing an innocent away from life and liberty, as well does denying personal responsibility for the sake of convenience also torture an innocent away from life and liberty. Both argue some life matters more than others. With nobody considering how to go about saving everyone. My maternal grandmom was actually an Albert Schweitzer award recipient, but I’ve gone as moral support for friends in dilemmas I’d nothing to do with. Objectivity isn’t difficult. Ego’s nothing but the further complication of life. But most everyone reading this would be offended, because the idea their ego is any priority for them is not what their respectively self-segregated social circles assure them.
Side-note but the family joke was that Cecilia didn’t win the prize for her right to life efforts, so much as for having 15 kids. Those old Kentucky farming families, popping out offspring not for lack of anything to do but because they couldn’t afford to hire desperately-needed help.
There was a time when I saw objective humor in replacing the noosphere’s “trust-fund baby” with “youtube socialist” as a derogative, but failed propagation miserably as I lacked their resources. Real anti-Capitalists remove all their own followers. Sharing in entitlements or privileges or luxury isn’t equality, it just propels the burdens of sacrifice elsewhere. And if you’re not sharing in the burden and blame for society, you are merely another mooch, taking away from it all but irony and accountability. Why live your life dependent on the notion that anybody anywhere deserves lesser rights, resources or opportunities than yourself? You can’t ethically disagree while playing video games with what time and space you’ve been permitted by your masters, instead of engaging a life of your own contrivances. For to your own given masters you are three-fifths of a person at best no matter how much you like what they have to say., oaths being words and words but wind.
The prosperity-indoctrinated tearing apart the church can trace their roots back directly to the Positive Christianity denomination begat by the Nazis, prioritizing self-serving heaven on earth over personal sacrifice for eternal salvation. Noting the church’s control across Europe, the Nazis tried establishing their own branch before realizing the Pope of their day was down for a treaty. They wanted to script-doctor Christ as a man of worldly gains, a teacher and leader of men free of inconveniently divine mystery. And they dropped it, realizing most people being born ready, willing and able to see sacrifice as the stuff of others and enriching themselves as priority over their faith in god’s designs or common decency, would mean empowering merely another threat to their own self-interest. The struggle between Capitalism and Populism lives on inside the Vatican now, Capitalism claiming ownership of Populism virtually everywhere else. Fuck Francis, but fuck his naysayers so much harder.
Going back to Genesis, life does begin when the self-protections to come of personal responsibility matter less than the casual immediacy of gratification. And what is life but troubles. Blame and liberty are alike, in that there’s always enough to go around no matter how uncomfortable it is for those self-entitled to delegate perceived ownership.