We have made great strides in our sympathy for the ultimate worth of all life. We have organizations for the ethical treatment of animals and to ensure that endangered animals have a chance to re-establish their numbers. We have passed laws to treat prisoners more humanely and to have places where the sick, elderly, affirmed and most special among us can thrive and live. We are a compassionate people. The great debate on abortion is not a religious issue it is a human rights issue. There is no logic that supports the idea that a child in the womb in the last months of pregnancy is not a human being. As such we have such a strong national foundation of advancement in our support for basic human rights that should be the guide when we seek to make decisions on the human being in the womb.
I believe there is another national issue that we should also tie to this national human rights issue and that is the human rights of those that stand at our border wanting nothing more than to be able to flourish as a human being. I do not seek to debate the wall or the standards by which we allow access to our country. I fully understand the responsibility of our government to protect our borders and to establish and defend the rule of law. Both are paramount truths that support a strong, free and stable America. The only point I seek to make is that we should be able to do both, allow the government to do its job and each of us as individuals, participate in the framework of law to support immigration.
These are both human rights issues, not religious issues, and as Americans, we should believe and work for the life of all, those behind the wall of the womb and the border.
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