Abortion can become unthinkable – just ask the Flintstones
Sometimes it feels like abortion has become so much a part of our culture that it simply can’t be overcome. Even we pro-lifers can succumb to the thinking that legalized abortion is here to stay.
But making an acceptable practice in our society unthinkable is possible. Just take a look at this 1950′s commercial as Exhibit A:
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You raise a good point.
Sometime back I was sent a clip of Margaret Sanger being interviewed by a fellow on TV (cannot remember whom). Anyway, he smoked throughout the interview as he queried her on her eugenics views.
At the end of the interview she stated that she did not smoke, but if she did, she’d smoke…whatever brand it was that was being touted.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the entire scenario around that interview could be relegated to history as a bad memory? Both smoking (especially during an interview!) and eugenics have become unthinkable (at least in the way they were once touted). Let abortion go along with all that.
I am reminded of the parable of dishonest wealth.
Smoking became viewed as a ‘bad and filthy habit’ because governments around the world made and enforced laws that forced smoking companies to show the health risks of smoking and outlawed many forms of commercials for cigarettes and other tobacco products.
However I doubt many politicians today are ‘pro-life’… some govenments even prohibited some pro-life commercials to be shown…
I would not tell anyone to smoke, although I do. I have been smoking for thirty years without any noticeable problem with my health. I used to suffer from asthma, but it seems to be gone, because I no longer cough. I use it as a tranquilizer and it works for me. I would never recommend it, though. I also take medicine with potentially dangerous side effects to my health, but I would rather enjoy the life I live with them than stop using them. Everything is dangerous today, because of the radiation in the atmosphere and soil, and the many harmful chemicals in our food. Let’s face it, we are all going to die. We all take some kind of risk, no matter what we do. But as the guy who played Ramses in “The Ten Commandments” said, “Don’t smoke” and I would add, “unless it seem as if you have no choice.”
Yubba dubba doo!