What was it all about?
Anyone else trying to figure out what the fuss was about with all the marching the day after the inauguration? Yeah I know, women’s rights. That's the part I can't figure out, what rights?
The right to go to school? Well more girls graduate from high school than boys in this country and more girls go to college than boys. That can't be it. The right to go to work and have a career, is that it? Well my mom worked, my wife works, all the women in my family can work, so that can't be it. The right to wear clothes you want in public?
Well I saw women in Portland who bike naked, who I wish had clothes on so that can't be it. So, what the heck are they marching about?
Then I read an article in the paper that gave me some insight into what this is. A pro-life group that had been invited to march in Washington, D.C., were uninvited on the eve of the big day. Apparently, a lot of righteous indication on social media from blue bubble liberals that couldn't bring themselves to march with a bunch of those deplorable women exposed this whole thing for what it is. These marches are about one thing and one thing only and it is abortion.
This is the most sacred right for some American women in the 21st century according to the left. This is not about women’s rights plural, this is about one right singular. The right of a woman to abort her child up to the moment before it is born. This is the singular issue of the Democratic party. Not since slavery has the Democrat party had such dedication to a cause. Like slavery, you have to shake your head and wonder how anyone would be willing to march let alone fight for such a cause as this. We are talking about killing the most helpless and vulnerable entity entrusted to us.
In all of evolutionary history species were always entrusted with the overpowering sense of responsibility to protect their unborn children. Yet we never hear anything about responsibility. It is this endless mantra of rights, rights, rights. How could this be the most sacred right for women when you look at the plight of so many women around the world who don't even have the most basic of rights? Why can you so easily accept the denial of this most basic right to unborn girls, the right to life?
This is not only a moral or ethical issue, but has serious consequences in a country with a $20 billion debt. If abortion had never been legalized in 1973, it is estimated that 17 million more people would be employed in this country, resulting in $400 billion from those workers. An additional $11 billion for Medicare and $47 million to social security.
Like most of the world, we have an aging population and, except for immigration, a declining birthrate.
Who is going to pay the bills in the future? Why would any sane society logically destroy its future? Why would any sane society celebrate its future extinction? To watch these people march with such purpose and commitment is puzzling. Most everything they have been committed to has been soundly rejected by the people who now run the country.
Most young people today now have an ultrasound photo in their baby albums, the old lies of the past no longer work. People outside urban bubbles question the tried and true propaganda of yesterday and aren't falling for it anymore. To double down with the same old message, the same old methods, march in the day and riot at night. This impresses the bubble people in L.A. and New York, but everyone in the 3,000 miles between is sick of it.
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Keith Knight is a resident of Hayden.