February 15, 2019: Morality trumps legality * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald
Letter to the Editor,
Morality trumps legality
There are certain events that imprint an indelible image,
forever forged in our memories, which we cannot escape their powerful impact
upon our psyche.
One such event occurred when viewing a video-clip of the Democrats
in the New York State Legislature standing and cheering the passage of a law
that allows abortion until the moment of the baby’s birth.
The moment of
delivery is one inch; one second away from infanticide. The timeline separating
abortion and infanticide is an ever-narrowing division of time and space.
That scene was reminiscent of various ostentatious bodies of
lawmakers throughout the centuries that have similarly legalized atrocities and
may have also stood and cheered at the passage of those laws.
Images of the
lawmakers in Nazi Germany standing and cheering after the legalization of the
Holocaust, the kingly courts standing and cheering after the legalization of Genocide
of Indigenous Peoples by the colonizing powers around the world and after
America ceded from Britain the Congress continuing to legalize the very same
tyranny, American lawmakers standing and cheering after the legalization of
Slavery and Segregation.
The Holocaust was once legal in Nazi Germany.
The Genocide
of Indigenous Peoples was once legal for world colonizing powers.
Slavery was once
legal in America.
Segregation was once legal in America.
Abortion has been
legal in the United States since 1973. Infanticide is now in the loop to be
legalized.
Just like the Holocaust, Genocide of Indigenous Peoples, Slavery
and Segregation were once legal, now they are seen as being on the wrong side
of history. Hopefully, one day soon, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide
and euthanasia will also be seen to have been on the wrong side of history.
The inhumanity of people against the vulnerable and weak continuous
it’s descending downward spiral into brutal and barbaric crimes; we must return
to the sanity of morality that views the beauty and dignity of every human life
to be valued and protected.
Legality is not a guide for morality, because it
may be legal but not moral.
Marian Casillas, Ed.D.
Del Rio, Texas