Pro-Conscience

The more I learn about these things the more I realize what’s “left” and what’s “right” is steadily more subjective according to the realities of what the parties representing want rather than representing a specific belief.

I define myself as a leftist, but as stated elsewhere, not a leftist according to the American sensibilities. It is clear that the American left is one that deliberately ignores systematic realities that empower certain behaviors and tackles the symptom rather than the cause, making it purely reactionary for the popular ballot. To me, that is not what the left is. The left stands for social justice in its purest form – justice FOR society not justice to gain social approval. This means rather than looking at abortion, what are the realities that are making it “a good idea”? It cannot be denied that these realities exist and that all possibilities in handling them cannot be censored in an effort to find solutions. But the administration should focus on efforts to make these realities LESS real instead of making them more and more like a good idea.

In Malta, we had a crisis of sorts these past few days involving an American couple, the lady in who was pregnant but some complications meant the amniotic fluid was poisoning her.

The pro-choice side saw the opportunity to make a media circus out of this. Whereas the intervention was not one intended to abort but to save the mother’s life with efforts to save the baby too although chances would be very, very slim, the media focused on the former.

The pro-life side didn’t help themselves at all and resorted to threats and condemning people left and right to different tiers of hell. Dante would have been proud. Christ certainly would not, but I digress.

This was a whole circus in my opinion, and the archbishop identified it as such as well as many health professionals. There were roads to take that had a chance to be abortive but were not intended as such but some, well, fundamentalist traditionalists preferred letting the mother suffer at the expense of a clear conscience. Even if this had been attempted before with various degrees of success. But media coverage ruined it. In fact, the couple had to be airlifted to Spain to have the same procedure done. Sure it very sadly resulted in the baby’s demise, but it would have turned up much worse had it been ignored even there in exchange for a pat on the back.

I don’t know. To me, there should be a distinction in terminology between life-preserving interventions and abortion, especially in cases where the intent is very clearly the former lest the media has a party as it did. I outline my views in regards very clearly here. But as to where we are…we have a long way to go both in terms of conscience.