Life is a chance not to be afforded to all it seems

This belief that the life of a child should be cut out of society before he takes his first breath (or after if you happen to live in New York) if he might not be born into perfect circumstances is dangerous and frankly disgusting.

Our politics have become so warped that actors can call for a sex strike to combat... anti-abortion legislation? Excepting non-consensual congress, it should be remembered that sex causes babies and that those people who have sex should acknowledge that this is how they are made. That you may try and obstruct the system with chemicals or prophylactics does not mean something went wrong, but that despite all your labyrinthine impediments, life won out.

God has given us dominion over His creation, and yet we agonize over plastic straws in the ocean while just under a million children a year lose their lives and call it the humane choice. My life has seen numerous tectonically-large shifts on foundational beliefs:

• Is a man a man or is a man a woman if he wants to be one enough?
• Is marriage simply the stamp of two parties who wish to "be together?" Does marriage even require two parties - why not three or can one person marry himself?
• Even though two parents and their children have been the bedrock of the family construct and of a healthy society for millennia, do we really need to worry about such trifles as having a mother and a father in the house? Come to think of it, is there really any difference between a baby and a furbaby?
• If a child can't be trusted to walk to school alone, why would we think he can choose which sexual organs he can be chemically and surgically provided? Full disclosure: I thought I was going to ninja school when I grew up. If someone came to me and told me I had to pack my bag and jump out my bedroom window under cover of darkness and rush into a van to join a secret ninja organization, I might well have done it without a second thought. Such were the sort of life choices I was 100% certain I was destined to live out. The priesthood does share some passing resemblance to the ninjutsuka, but not enough for me to believe my adolescent fantasies bore some prescient power that would guide my fate.

These and other similarly alarming questions that 50 years ago we would have looked at bemusedly, today are asked as frank multiple choice questions. Everything is a popular opinion tipping point away.

As such, we won't save the lives of these children by hammering at abortion head-on. We have to prove the value of all the ideas about humanity that swirl around protecting innocent unborn children before we can show the good sense of letting life live. No one sees these babies and has to face the stark reality of their lives if an abortion happens; it is for some as if nothing of consequence ever happened. I have seen no baby, you have seen no baby, ergo there was no baby.

So I pray that we continue to turn the tide not just on abortion, but on what makes strong families, on the value of life at all stages from how we treat the life in the womb to how we treat our own grandparents as they face declining health, on what being a man means, on the cherished place of women as mothers, and all the rest. We do this most effectively locally both as examples of such and as vocal proponents - with much less efficacy by signing Internet petitions or posting mocking news stories.

God willing the damage of a few decades of lunacy can be undone in an equally short time before too many of our children die unremembered by all but God who sees all things.