By: David Conde
One of the positive things that happened during the COVID crisis is that funding to fight it actually took millions of children out of poverty. This, perhaps unintended consequence, speaks louder about American values than anything else when considering the born or the unborn.
I recently heard an interview with a Texas legislator who was asked about the future socioeconomic plight of the increased number of babies that might be born because of the ban on abortion. He stated that there was a bill in process that would add a hundred million dollars to the state budget to address the needs of children after birth. This got me to thinking about why is that so important now. How about the tens of millions of children in this country that are already here and that lack the economic, medical and social support to live what would be a normal life and upbringing demonstrated by those families that do have the resources?
If it is going to take the unplanned happenstance connected to another virus or some such thing to help the welfare of children you can count me out. The commitment has to be to everyone in and out of the womb all the way through the higher education experience.
“Women’s Right to Choose” and “Pro-Life” are political slogans and mottos that speak to the present circumstance, but hide a greater struggle that has been going on for centuries. It is about the holding on to power by Masculine versus the ascendancy of the Feminine Principle.
The civil rights movements of the racial, ethnic and cultural minorities in the second half of the 20th Century happened at the same time that women began seriously attempting to find their own voice. Remember that it was also in this century that both women and minorities achieved effective voting rights, the ultimately important element of power in a democracy.
This coincidences masked the fact that the circle that expresses the predominance of one culture or another is much smaller than the gigantic dynamics associated with gender. The powerful act of Eve eating from the Tree of Knowledge and converting Adam in the Garden of Eden against God’s wishes is symbolic testimony of the dimensions of this almost eternal struggle.
There was a moment when Eve became like God, all knowing, before she shared her knowledge with her husband. She never got to the Tree of Life that was also in the Garden and therefore never achieved eternity as God’s equal.
Even though Genesis provides a patriarchal view of the Garden of Eden story, it nevertheless shows the power of the ‘Woman’ in the give and take of life. Women are rapidly gaining the power that men used to have and are taking control of their destiny and their bodies.
The Supreme Court’s decision against a national abortion constitutional standing is but a blip on the screen of a greater feminine gender reach. That is why there is a look and sense of desperation in the political deception of those that profess to care so much about the unborn.
America and the world are changing rapidly and our social and political divisions are a product of that. Activist women are at the forefront of that change as they continue their journey up the power structure.
To be sure, the Supreme Court’s decision is really not as much about the unborn as it is about keeping women under control. That however, is like putting the proverbial finger in the dike.
