I had a few thoughts this afternoon as I sat pondering the current inequality of income in the United States of America. It led me to another mental meander. Our country practices its own form of human sacrifice. It takes a lot longer, and I believe has a much greater length of suffering than the sudden deaths practiced by ancient people.

While there has been strong opposition to abortion, there seems to be no end to the ability of our “conservative” leadership in this country, to do their level best to ruin the lives of those who they deem to be unworthy.

One example is to withdraw all social support for people who for one reason or another, have been unable to climb the economic ladder of success. Take away food stamps, health care, public transportation funding, free access to anything that smacks of taking care of another person. If they can’t pay for it, it should be denied! It’s not the “taxpayers’ problem!”

Another example is encouraging so may young people from uneducated, poor segments of our society to jointhe military, where they are shot at, bombed, terrorized, and if they are lucky enough to return home, brain damaged, or psychologically damaged. Then to top it off, there is little opportunity to get help re-connecting to ordinary civilian life. Soldiers and their families become impoverished in so many ways, and then they are cast adrift to figure out how to survive on nothing!

“Right-To-Life ” is really right to birth, not right to life! There is so little support for babies and older children whose parents have no means to care for them. Children born to parents who cannot afford to care for them get nothing!

We need to see this for what it is; alternate human sacrifice. We don’t prevent the births, but we do prevent the lives!