…Speaking of Abortion: Save the Whales!

Back in the seventies my roommate -a sharp African American poet/writer -used to ridicule my devotion to Pacifica Radio and she’d ask me every day “Are you saving the whales?” or “Did you save any whales today?” She’d laugh and laugh at my tie-dyed groundless, baseless, ineffectual cross-eyed idealism.

And I’d send Pacifica five bucks subscription or whatever.

It’s my question for Pro-Life Republicans. Most of them I believe are pretending to save all the whales. They are Bleeding Heart Conservatives who do not know their way around a Petri dish. And neither do I.

It was always a bait and switch. For a mere $5 trillion dollar tax cut, we (the political faction) will grant your wish and ban abortion.

The abortion issue was all about cutting taxes for the rich. Always.

An abortion ban should never have been a priority on the national stage! Never. It was thrust upon the public by cynics who needed votes for Reagan. Quid pro quo with religious fanatics led by television evangelists who had axes to grind and aces up their sleeves and revenue on their mind.

Money. M-O-N-E-Y.

And if family values was the issue, how can it be that the political spokesmen to ban abortion cheated on their wives so routinely? It was a thing with them. Reagan and his ilk. They cared not for their wives who they ditched or any little cell groups that were dividing somewhere unknown.

But no matter. This is now.

But what they should do is what I suggest.

They should- if they care about the sanctity of Life- save the whales.

Because when those whales are gone we know humanity could be next.

So those sweet little unborn zygotes will have no healthy parents to bring them to term if life on earth is extinct.

Human beings are in the food chain. If you want to save babies start with the environment in which they can survive outside the womb.

And that is true: The evolution of Life on Earth depended on some intricate organizing principle underlying it all. It’s supposed to fit together in a balanced way including all life. Not just you. Otherwise life could not be sustained.

That’s the mystery. Fish grew eyeballs and glowed in the dark. And then you came along.

Life had to await perfect conditions for life. That required organization in advance. A space in which to live and conditions for a chance of survival had to precede the cell groups. That’s the book of Genesis. Call it God or whatever. Same difference.

We prepare the environment for life as best we can. First. If possible. All of us on earth.

But do the Sanctity of Life people care about that?

Oh no. Fuck no! (And I use the F word advisedly.)

Sigh.

I have saved zero whales today. So we’re even.

Ronald Reagan saved not one whale that I’m aware of.

Jerry Fallwell saved no whales.

Billy Graham didn’t prevent ocean warming that fucked up the food chain on which the dividing cells of your future loved ones will depend.

I write in hopes those children when born won’t have to run for their lives from storms and fires and lightning strikes, and continue in desperation to deplete the energy we’ve already burned through.

I’m burning through a shit-ton of energy myself right now!

And no hunger in the United States!

Pro-Life Hucksters, you suck. So bad.

Save the whales!

I believe that President Biden will save a whale, if given the opportunity. By that I mean he’d at least consider mitigation of climate change and ocean warming. Tiny living cells afloat in oceans and oceans full of Life.

If you can save babies that exist only in theory you can save theoretical whales.