Saving a goose

Which has more inherent value . . . a born goose or an unborn child?

Think about it. Objectively speaking, if both the goose and the little human in the womb were hurt or in danger of being hurt, which should rightfully be saved first?

Unfortunately, there are many who struggle to affirm that a human being is more valuable than a goose. And some clearly demonstrate their distorted value system by their actions.

A woman in my community has been very active in soliciting signatures on a petition to get an amendment proposal on the Ohio ballot that would ban any restrictions on abortion in the state. This same woman has been equally passionate about saving the life and health of a goose that was hit by a car. She went out of her way to retrieve the goose from the side of the road, drove it miles away to a bird sanctuary, and keeps tabs on its progress, providing regular updates on the Nextdoor social media platform.

It strikes me as incredibly ironic and twisted that she could be fighting to protect the life of a goose in the morning and and the right to kill a child in the afternoon. Does she not see how incongruous that is?

Perhaps she like many others has fallen for one of the flat-out, indefensible, science-denying lies spread by those in the pro-abortion contingent regarding the status of the unborn. “It’s” a clump of cells . . . a potential human . . . part of the woman’s body . . . a parasite. But the child in the womb is none of those things. He or she is a unique and fully human being from the moment of conception with an inherent right to life. 

My “Nextdoor” neighbor witnessed the goose getting hit and was horrified by the offending driver’s apparent callousness and lack of compassion for the bird. I wonder if she would be as horrified if she witnessed a child getting his legs and arms pulled off in the womb, or his skull crushed. We would likely cut the legs off the abortion industry if those bloody and frequent crimes against humanity were able to be viewed in utero by the general public.

Maybe someday they will. Maybe someday we as a nation will weep and mourn over what we have allowed to be done to generations of innocent children, because we have actually witnessed it.

Until then, many will continue to be indignant over harm being done to animals and totally complacent about or even passionately supportive of life-ending harm being done to humans. The dissonance is deafening.