Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
"The right-to-lifers believe that the right to life begins with conception and ends at birth". - Barney Frank.
As indicated by the front-running issues championed by the Congressional majority, priority is given to the unborn, the slightly fertilized and the brain dead over the contributing citizens without health care, jobs or a secure future. Let's play with this for a bit.
Fighting for the blastocysts and the unborn is the utmost priority but ensuring a successful future for those that are born but unwanted isn't as important. Sending young men and women off to die for oil a lie democracy the hell of it, is more important than ensuring they don't have to subsist on food stamp and WIC assistance. Guaranteeing higher education for all graduating students isn't as important as building new prisons or offering solid employment for at-risk teens.
Time to re-prioritize.
We've got enlistment plummeting beyond reforecasted estimations, a war on terror that appears to have an infinite horizon, and a government tied closely with churches that seems to think every unwanted fetus should be carried to term, let's juxtapose the concepts.
The church is anti-abortion and supports the administration which supports the infinite war which requires a larger military. Long term planning is in order and time for the cabal to step up to the plate.
The church can put their money where their mouth is and support all pregnant mothers through the full term of their previously unwanted pregnancy. They will then provide room, board and pre-education for the child until the age of five. The military will then be responsible for the child through graduation after which the individual will have completed basic training and be a fully trained troop, ready to serve at the government's whim.
This eliminates the need for a draft, closes the gaps in a volunteer military, vastly reduces abortions, addresses the 9 brief months when a life is truly sacred, elminates "unwanted babies", allows the churches to be the wholy owned subsidary of the government they appear to desire and could reduce the need for base closures nation-wide all in one fell swoop. It might reduce the need for abstinence only planning but that can be addressed later.
Now, it's up to you the reader to guesstimate how facetious I'm being.
Posted by kerry at June 16, 2005 05:41 AM | TrackBack