Changing Abortion
Change has been getting a lot of traction over the past two years, but mostly the kind I don't believe in. Apparently, change also has a website. Predictably, it is a very left website catering to all the usual liberal hot-button issues: "Global Warming," "Gay Rights," "Women's Rights," etc. You get the idea. However, www.change.org purports to be a general-purpose petition website that "empowers people to take action with leading nonprofits." It seems to be trying to become some sort of social-networking website that gets people in touch with nonprofits and other lobbying groups. So I started to wonder. I was curious to see if they would let a non-liberal cause on the website, something that would reflect the kind of change that I would really like to see. So I started a petition to recruit people to write to US politicians and urge them to end Abortion. After all, abortion is the norm in the US right now and ending it would in fact be a change. When I was asked for a category to which my petition would belong, I chose "End Genocide" since none of the others really fit. So far, the petition has been allowed to stay on the website. If you would like to endorse the petition please go here. Here is the letter of my petition that I quickly put together:
"There is a terrible practice affecting our communities today, causing deaths of millions of innocent lives at the stage when they are most vulnerable. That is the practice of abortion. Since this practice had become completely legal in all of its forms in the United States it has been estimated that close to 50 million innocent lives have been lost. In terms of comparison, the total number of casualties in World War II, which was the deadliest war in human history, has been estimated at about 60 million. And that is for the entire World. I think that these numbers speak for themselves about the gravity and seriousness of this affliction and I would urge you and all those who influence public policy to work in whatever capacity you can to bring this terrible practice to an end."