The Judge Will Come     

   Part 2 of 2   

Peterson

We pick up Ms. Peterson's address to the hospital board, reciting

how a D.A. in the Kermit Gosnell trial tried to make him a

monster without making all abortionists look like monsters. 
After listing the "differences," she continued:

    He had to make those differences seem like very big differences. But arguing like that seems to me like arguing about the silverware on the Titanic. In the end they all come out dead. 

   In the Old Testament, a city in Israel is under siege and people are starving, and the king comes upon two women and asked what they are arguing about. What they are arguing about is whose turn it is to cook and eat their babies. The king tears his robes and dons sackcloth and ashes.

   Or, as Mercutio said just before dying, to the warring Montagues and Capulets, 
"A pox on both your houses." (Romeo and Juliet)

   This is a familiar dance we're doing tonight - this charade where pro-lifers come here once a year and plead, and where you grin and bear it. But this won't go on forever. There are a finite number of these get-togethers, and every time you hear the facts it increases your culpability. 

   Then the Judge will come, and where will you be then, having forged your chain link by link, like Ebenezer's partner Marley? (A Christmas Carol)

   Today, while you have today, be courageous. Whatever you fear to lose from changing your policy - money, prestige - is rubbish. Take the adventure. As Jesus said, "The truth will set you free."