on a single issue, so much as being cognizant of that issue. Let's start off right with the point that you conceded. You mentioned the statistic of 926,000 abortions. Although that number has decreased, that is an appalling figure. We have memorials and museums about the people that the Nazi's killed. And rightly so. Yet in the time since abortion was legalized in America, how many people is that? Now we have a huge swath of America specifically championing individuals who advocate for getting that figure as high as it can be. They advocate for all abortions for any reason all the way up to and past viability. (Note: I saw an article from an actual news agency about a baby who was born a few years back at 21 weeks and 4 days. The little girl had her 2 or 3rd birthday) But I'm getting off track.

You are asking why I'm looking at one, while not looking at the other deaths "directly or due to collective indifference." Who says that I'm not? You mentioned that 64,000 deaths last year due to drugs. That's sad. That's very sad. Now magnify that by 10x and add a few more on...and that's your abortion statistic.

You say that you can't understand why I'm looking at this one specific way that humans die, yet not the others. I'd ask you why you came to that assumption? You mentioned the 800 million suffering from malnutrition, starvation,drought...and how that figure dwarfs the 926,000 abortions. Guess what dude, I can't make a difference to 800 million people. I can contribute and advocate and support...but I can't do much for them.

Instead, what I can do is stand and advocate for at least recognition that that abortion is killing a person. Right now as a human race, we have a tough time even acknowledging that. We (the collective word) didn't see people of dark skin as "fully human"....so we enslaved them. We (the collective word) didn't see the Jews as human...so we gassed them. We (the collective word) didn't see <insert ethnic, religious, tribal minority here> as human, so we <insert horrible repercussion here> them.

You asked the difference. You asked why I didn't stand from those causes (although I'm still curious as to the assumption that you don't think that I do). I can easily respond with it's easy to care for someone who you recognize as human. I care for a cause for someone who isn't recognized as human. Who isn't recognized as being worth anything.

~Jeordam