As the last day of Texas Special Session draws to a close, Senator Wendy Davis has stood up to filibuster Senate Bill 5, the Texas Senate bill on regulating abortion. The bill attempts to restrict the ability of Texas women to have an abortion, ostensibly because certain abortion clinics are unsafe for such procedures, but the reality is is that the Senate has a large majority of pro-life senators, who wish for nothing more than abortion to be completely outlawed, as would I.
The arguments against the bill, however, demonstrate a very particular problem of the American social and political sphere. The arguments are all about "me", "my choice", and "what I want". With American society, and indeed, that of the whole world, focusing so heavily on themselves, the want for the good of others has been declining seriously. This manifests itself in the abortion debate, where the "inconvenience" of another, sentient, living, human has become "too great" for women to handle. To answer this, they simply kill the defenseless life within them, reasoning that if it can't protest in its own defense, it obviously must be permissible to kill it. The slaughter of the defenseless and innocent is, indeed, one of the greatest moral wrongs by the morals of most societies, but the society of the world has come to accept the killing of the unborn. This "culture of death" must cease, and it is up to the legislature of the state of Texas to blaze the path, as no other legislatures dare.
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