_ I was reading an article earlier tonight and I started thinking that I love it when people that used to be involved in something so appalling as abortion make a complete u-turn and speak out against what they now see for what it truly is. I like that you can't really dispute that they don't know what they're talking about, and you can’t say that if they knew more they would change their minds. These are people that saw it all, and decided they couldn't be a part of it any longer.

The media seems to always paint pro-life advocates as crazy extremists that are completely ignorant about what abortion actually is. Sure, there are some politicians that will yell and scream about supporting life all day, just to get a vote when they have no idea what they're talking about or why they are or are not supporting something. For the most part though, anybody that's willing to go to so much effort to try to save lives isn't ignorant at all. They have that passion and drive because they know the truth. They know the reality that seems to be hidden behind a fog for so many. It's like standing in a burning building and trying to explain to everyone that something serious and deadly is happening and something has to be done about it, but nobody will listen. Somehow they can’t see what is so obvious and right in front of them. Or, what’s even more baffling, some will choose to leave the building themselves but they refuse to tell anybody else about the fact that this building is on fire and they can’t stay.

I don’t think it’s the people trying so hard to stop other human beings from dying that should be seen as uninformed or radical, I think it’s those refusing to recognize that lives are being taken around them every day and they could do something about it but they choose either to do nothing, or to throw gasoline on that building with so many of their fellow human beings trapped inside.

I was reading an article this morning about a bill in Florida that would make it illegal to get an abortion because of the race or gender of the child. I would have thought this was already illegal, since it sounds like an old Margaret Sanger idea. What I found more disturbing though was one of the comments someone had written after the article. This was one of the strangest parts of it:

"So I will kill any unwanted, parasitic life-form that needs my body to live—including your precious fetus; not your body carrying the unwanted fetus, not your problem nor your concern… period, get over it."

Before that she compares an "unwanted fetus" to a tapeworm. Besides the fact that even a woman on birth controls knows there is a chance that she may still become pregnant, how can anyone compare a living person to a tapeworm in that way? How can you call another living human being, your own child, a parasite?