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Time to put away the crosses [1]
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Date: 2023-01-22
We live around the corner from a Catholic Church that puts out this tired display each January on a busy commuter road.
Soon January will be over, and it will be time to pull up the white crosses and stack them in a closet until next year. I imagine there’s a place for them next to the plastic nativity set and beneath the summer fish fry banner.
Some future brisk January 22nd, the Roe v. Wade anniversary, I will find the courage to walk politely into the church office and ask where the crosses are for the countless fetuses aborted in the thousands of years since humans developed the knowledge and means to terminate a pregnancy.
I would also ask where the crosses are placed to memorialize those numerous fetuses aborted outside of the US, where Roe v. Wade had no jurisdiction. I would suggest perhaps the family life center and sanctuary could be repurposed for extra white cross storage, but they would probably not be large enough to contain the scope concern that must be encompassed by such a display, if it were intellectually honest and morally consistent.
As the month wears on, I wonder how the roughly one out of three women who have experienced abortion feel when driving by. Do they take in a toxic daily dose of shame and judgement? I wonder if all of this propaganda acts as a cruel salt on the wounds of women who have suffered from miscarriage. I also worry about my daughter being exposed five days a week to the implied testimony that so many would-be mothers are are murderesses.
On its would-be 50th anniversary, I wonder how long Roe v. Wade can continue to be scapegoated. Although dead, Roe v Wade, is at heart a symbol of the sexual revolution and its attendant questioning of church and authority and male supremacy. This unchecked power and control is what the passive aggressive pop up graveyard is actually grieving for.
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