To me, this article misses the real point. This year's war budget is $858 billion, and people are dying all over the earth. Wars, famines, the stress of grinding poverty, pollution, climate change. Our sharehold primacy brand of capitalism is literally destroying the habitability of our planet, and we are in the midst of a great extinction. Kim Jung Un wants a new ICBM system and expanded nuclear capabilities. Russia's unilateral invasion of Ukraine (we still really don't know why) has ruined the lives of millions. So, when we talk about human life, the point at which life begins isn't really a valid point. The valid point is how well do we take care of our less fortunate? The orphans? The immigrants? People waiting in front of barbed wire topped walls in the cold because they had the temerity to flee, walk across a thousand miles of dangerous land because they want a better life for the children they have.When we stop the wars, alleviate the grinding poverty, stop exploiting workers, and learn to organize ourselves around human need instead of human greed, then we can talk about abortion access. And, to my mind, making some law that allows a woman to die because a fetus has died inside her and is poisoning her body, or she is in danger due to ectopic pregnancy just because some old church guy doesn't 'get' the facts of life is odious and most decidedly un-Christian.

To me, this article misses the real point. This year's war budget is $858 billion, and people are dying all over the earth. Wars, famines, the stress of grinding poverty, pollution, climate change. Our sharehold primacy brand of capitalism is literally destroying the habitability of our planet, and we are in the midst of a great extinction. Kim Jung Un wants a new ICBM system and expanded nuclear capabilities. Russia's unilateral invasion of Ukraine (we still really don't know why) has ruined the lives of millions. So, when we talk about human life, the point at which life begins isn't really a valid point. The valid point is how well do we take care of our less fortunate? The orphans? The immigrants? People waiting in front of barbed wire topped walls in the cold because they had the temerity to flee, walk across a thousand miles of dangerous land because they want a better life for the children they have.When we stop the wars, alleviate the grinding poverty, stop exploiting workers, and learn to organize ourselves around human need instead of human greed, then we can talk about abortion access. And, to my mind, making some law that allows a woman to die because a fetus has died inside her and is poisoning her body, or she is in danger due to ectopic pregnancy just because some old church guy doesn't 'get' the facts of life is odious and most decidedly un-Christian.

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