How the Gay Marriage Issue Gives Me Hope for Ending Legalized Abortion

While I have not been a fan of the progress that the legalization of gay marriage has made recently, it is amazing to ponder the speed at which it took place. In 40 years our nation went from seeing gay marriage as unthinkable and gay sex as illegal, to embracing the idea of normalizing gay marriage. A tipping point seems to have been reached, and the rate of acceleration toward that tipping point was phenomenal in the last 5 years. This reflects a radical shift in the views of the population, and it had surprising impact on the legal system.

While I will not discourage those who try to slow or reverse the trend, I think that for now further change and consolidation of the legalization of gay marriage likely will take place.

This rapid change in one arena gives me hope for rapid change in another arena. Why couldn’t the same rapid shift toward a tipping point happen in regard to abortion? Just as for the case of gay marriage, once a large number of people began to embrace it as an issue of basic human rights, the supporting legal structure changed. Why couldn’t a large number of people recognize human rights for the pre-born? Couldn’t that change the entire legal structure in a very short period of time? Certainly, a right to “choose” is trumped by a right to “exist”, isn’t it?

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Legalization of gay marriage has had an unexpected impact on someone like me who opposed it. It has caused me to be optimistic for the future of another issue that I am deeply concerned about: legalizing basic human rights for pre-borns.

NOTE: This is a copy of the letter to the editor which I believe will appear in the April 14, 2013 edition of the Carroll County Times based in Westminster, Maryland.

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