In other news, I'm not sleeping well, and this problem is not going away. It would help if I were working on some legislation that would make a law so wild flower seeds were sprinkled on all grass medians in Georgia- this way we wouldn't pay for the areas to be mowed, and they would be beautiful all spring and summer. Instead, I'm working on legislation that involves little fully formed, fully feeling humans being pulled apart in small pieces while alive kicking and writhing in pain. There is just no happy way to look at this. It kills me to stand in front of the Atlanta Surgi-Center, watch these women go inside knowing that their little one is warm and safe in the womb, sucking her thumb, and all peaceful, and a sharp probe is going to come in, grasp a little foot and wrench it off, followed by 10-15 more passes before the baby is dead. Then the little thumb sucking baby will just be a mass of pieces washed down a garbage disposal. This is highly disturbing to me. It is incomprehensible that American civilization has come to this.
George Washington at a serious low point in the war for American Independence wrote his soldiers a powerful message that was to be read throughout the camp. It was winter. Everyone was hungry. There weren't enough shoes or blankets, and morale was very low. Washington encouraged his men to fight like they had never fought before because they were not fighting for their wives and children or even themselves, but for the millions of unborn Americans that would come after them. Our founding fathers, froze, starved and shed their blood for us while we were not yet born in anticipation of our arrival. And so I'm up at 5 or 6am back at work, after working late into the night, in anticipation of the millions of unborn Americans that are yet to be.
