Posted on 07/27/2012 11:53:02 AM PDT by Tau Food
Okay, I’ll address your question.
What is coming out of Stericycle’s smokestack (from a technical standpoint) is very little different whether some of their feedstock is picked up at Planned Parenthood or not. The gases and particles released vary little if at all.
That is, of course, not what you meant. You are no doubt speaking from a metaphysical POV, that what is coming out of the stack is the result of dead babies being incinerated.
To which my response is that Stericycle is not responsible for the deaths of those babies, and trying to make this an issue (which it never was before) simply because one of the present candidates had some peripheral involvement with the company quite some time ago is IMO outside of the area of reasonable political discourse.
If Stericycle had been set up specifically as an “abortion products” disposal company, or if this were a major part of their business, you might have something of a point. Since this is not the case, you don’t.
The issue is, or should be, the killing. How the poor little corpse is handled after its death is by comparison irrelevant.
This is obviously more complicated for you than it is for me. I would want to know if one of my neighbors was profiting from the abortion “industry” and was burning in their ovens the bodies of little boys and girls murdered by that “industry.”
Yes, I would want to know that.
This is a big issue, IMO, for the pro-life community.
A similar issue popped up with the debate over federal funding of fetal stem-cell research. Fetal stem cells originally obtained from aborted babies.
The problem here is that we have been unable for decades to do much of anything to prevent the ongoing slaughter at the clinics. So a very human reaction is to focus on a peripheral issue that we might indeed be able to affect, such as how the babies corpses are handled after their death. How they are “disposed of” or whether their body parts are used for research.
The problem is that this is IMO very much a diversion. Focusing on it risks appearing to accept the killing as long as the corpses are disposed of with dignity.
For those who want to compare this to the Holocaust, let’s take a look at that. Obviously the incineration of the dead, handled as disposal of trash, was disgusting.
But what was the real issue, the disposal or the mass murder? Would the murders have been more acceptable if the Nazis had held a nice dignified memorial service for each of those they killed, with dignified cremation or burial?
How the dead babies are disposed of or whether their body parts are put to other use is IMO most definitely a very peripheral issue. It doesn’t really matter. What is important is that the killing goes on.
I’m curious how far you’re willing to carry this.
Companies make the incinerators that Stericycle uses. Are they responsible for the way their incinerators are used? How about the owners of the building Stericycle operates out of? How about those who wash the windows at the Stericycle building?
I used to work in management for a company that had an account for monthly cleaning of the carpet at a small office building. One of the office suites was occupied by Planned Parenthood. Was it wrong for me to facilitate the operations of PP by cleaning their carpet once a month?
Believe it or not I spent quite some time thinking about this topic. The answer I came to, right or wrong, was that I would not be willing to take an account with PP. But that since my account was with the owner of the building, and PP was just another suite in the building, and that my services had nothing to do with what PP did, I was morally not involved in facilitating their operations.
YMMV
I would want to know if one of my neighbors was profiting from the abortion “industry” and was burning in their ovens the bodies of little boys and girls murdered by that “industry." If you're suggesting that it would be none of my business, then we disagree.
Stericycle should disclose such information to their neighbors. A refusal to comment is unacceptable.
Wars are not won using only one strategy, or one tactical angle of attack.
Successful wars are won by employing dozens, if not hundreds of different strategies and tactics.
The battle against abortion has used many, many, different strategies, some more successful than others.
I predict this will be one of the more successful ones.
It's probably more profitable to use these earlier threads ~ and there are a bunch of them ~ to get across out outrage at Romney's noncommittal response to the charge that he makes money on murdered babies bodies.
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