Or the young man who had nightmares when his wife became pregnant. Before he changed his life and got married, he impregnated two women who aborted their babies.
I hear these stories all the time as I travel around the country speaking at Crisis Pregnancy Center events.
People all over our country are hurting and we are in widespread denial. A great lie has found its way into our national culture -- a lie that has deadened our senses -- that we can contend with life's challenges in a morally relative way. That we can live, produce, compete, and deliver health care while we pretend that hard issues about life, about the unborn, are above our pay grade.
There have been other times like this. Like the many years we felt we could continue as a nation while denying the humanity of our black slaves.
If we want to insist that a culture of responsibility means taxing one American to pay for another's abortion we have a long way to go. But this is where we seem to be today.
C.S. Lewis said "pain is God's megaphone to a deaf world." It appears that even today that megaphone is still not big enough.
Star Parker
Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It.