I find it distasteful that those people who purport to hold all human life to be sacrosanct are often the same people who hold the most conservative political and ethical views.
How does the "right-to-lifer" who finds great moral indignity in abortion, not tap into that same indignity when it comes to dealing with such issues as poverty, hunger, the death penalty and other global human rights violations? That people who tout themselves as "pro-life" are willing to campaign, protest, rally, cry and even kill for a social issue whose ethical poles are far from clear, only make it more maddening that that same vitriol is never directed toward raising our awareness of the unmistakable crimes that human beings perpetrate against other living human beings each day.
The fact that activist groups like the GAP have chosen instead to champion a firmly entrenched, rhetorically static and politically delineated issue not only makes their outcry seem all the more disingenuous, it undermines their credibility by emphasizing an indefensible moral myopia.
David Rinker
Office Assistant
Department of Pharmacology
