The seamless garment also covers the unemployment of the abortion industry
What sadness, brothers. Today they tell us that the largest Planned Parenthood clinic in the Western Hemisphere has closed its doors. And while some naive people celebrate that a death furnace has been extinguished, we, more mature, more “consistently pro-life”, cannot do less than raise a heartfelt prayer… for the workers who are going unemployed.
Because life, dear ones, is not defended only when it comes to innocents torn apart in their mothers’ wombs. No! Life is defended in the right to unemployment benefits, in free access to the municipal sports center, and in making the library card free for everyone.
Of course, Cupich already explained it to us with Bernardin’s seamless garment: you can’t rejoice that a human slaughterhouse is closing if you haven’t first guaranteed the social benefits for those who were paid to kill there. You can’t proclaim victory for saving the unborn if you don’t guarantee the recycled executioners a dignified reemployment, perhaps in some Laudato Si’-inspired ecological reeducation program.
Celebrating the closure of Planned Parenthood is, therefore, a lack of social delicacy. What will become of so many gynecologists specialized in dismembering 20-week fetuses, so many nurses expert in grinding with gentleness, so many administrators who day by day registered the product of death as if they were parish census data? Don’t they also have a “right to life” understood as an integral package of benefits, leisure, and culture?
The true defense of life, they will tell us, does not consist in ending abortion, but in opening municipal zumba scholarships, inclusive-inspired daycares, and discounts on the transportation pass. Otherwise, our pro-life stance is not authentic, but a dangerous fundamentalist caricature.
So now you know: less “Deo gratias” and more compassion for the executioners who are unemployed. Because the seamless garment of integral ethics covers from the nasciturus to the spinning instructor at the sports center.