Looks like it’s not just babies who’ll need a safe drop-off box at hospitals. Elderly people are also at risk of being left alone in the ER by relatives who either won’t care for them or just can’t.
Crass question for you to ponder: If it’s OK to dispatch “unwanted” babies, is it OK to abandon elderly relatives who’ve become a burden? Just trying to figure out which lives deserve care and protection…
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And with today’s smaller families, it is increasingly difficult to care for aging parents.Whereas in previous generations, the senior parent would often be cared for by the siblings on a rotating basis, that is no longer possible.
It would seem that as we become less generous towards life in the early years, revealed by abortion, we have no more generosity for those at the other end of life.
Wow. I understand that people are a burden. When we need to care for others, we have less free time, energy and resources for ourselves, but… isn’t that part of being a member of the human race? It seems that no matter how hard we try, we just can’t shake our responsibility to others.
I also understand the idea behind the ‘drop off’ window, that if it’s easier to bring a baby/elderly relative in then they’re less likely to be harmed or criminally neglected, but I don’t like being part of a culture that NEEDS drop-off windows for unwanted family members.
We are history repeating itself, ancient Rome didn’t care for the unborn, the elderly unable to continue their roles, or those in the margins because of class, mental illness, or disability. Which stage are we at again?
I think i want to go bury my head in the sand for awhile, now. This article attracted my attention this morning, and I thought it might be relevant here. Why is it that, as a society, the more we become blessed with abundance of wealth, the less we are willing to look out for one another?
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell051110.php3
Melissa, what a great article. I’m assuming the ‘intelligentsia’ Sowell is talking about there is the same group that wants to allow greater access to euthanasia for the elderly, once we’ve guilted them into it of course.
Sheesh. And they say that the Catholics are the ones who leave guilt trips on people. (Not that we don’t. My mom was particularly effective at bringing out the guilty feelings. Most of the time I deserved it.)
“We are history repeating itself, ancient Rome didn’t care for the unborn, the elderly unable to continue their roles, or those in the margins because of class, mental illness, or disability.”
Ancient rome was one of the most enduring and powerful empires ever to exist.
For that matter, the greatest empire ever to have existed in terms of military strength, financial strength, land occupied and area occupied was the British Empire – hardly a triumph of social justice! Even I’ll admit that we thrived on poverty and exploitation. Not to mention slavery.
“Even I’ll admit that we thrived on poverty and exploitation.” Right Suricou, so it’s a total misconception to think of our current legislation on abortion as ‘progressive’ or philanthropic, and pro-abortion groups should stop marketing it as such.
The ‘progressive/choice’ myth of abortion attacks the poor, the weak/ill, and disproportionately, women. Recently Alveda King spoke out (again) about the issue of abortion clinics servicing largely poor (and in the US as in many places, this means minority) neighbourhoods. Do I think Planned Parenthood is targeting minorities? No, I don’t think so. But is that ultimately the outcome when poor women are told they’d be ‘better off’ without children? Yes, it is.
“All of it is a scam and a disgrace, not just for the minority community, but everybody,” (source: http://www.cantonrep.com/stark/x1560861016/Minorities-split-over-history-goal-of-abortion)
I personally, especially as a woman, don’t want to go back to Roman or British Empirical times, regardless of the ‘strength’ those empires wielded.