How dare she sit there eating salad and sipping wine while nonchalantly talking about crushing babies?
I don’t know how someone could be so callous.
She’s going to rot in hell for everything she’s done. Good. She deserves it.
These, and worse, are what I’ve heard many people say about Dr. Nucatola – Planned Parenthood’s Senior Director of Medical Services – recently pictured in a viral video. The video shows her talking over dinner about Planned Parenthood’s practice of passing body parts of aborted babies on to mediator-type organizations which then transfer them to medical research labs.
The video revealed a horrifying practice especially to those who had never heard about this before.
But it’s interesting to see how people respond.
Many people are incredulous at how an organization can do such a thing. They take their anger and disgust out on this woman. The anger and disgust is understandable, but personally attacking this woman does not help. Because guess what…
We ask how dare she do this. How dare she abort babies and crush skulls and manipulate how abortions are done to produce prime body parts?
Yes, how dare she.
But how dare we neglect to stop this. How dare we stop talking about it. How dare we go on with our daily lives as if nothing is different. How dare we avoid big topics in order to continue our comfortable lives?
Jenny’s post on this topic resonated with me because like her, this news did not surprise me. I have heard about this before. It did not emotionally jar me or make me cry. It did not break my heart.
And that disgusts me.
I am so used to hearing about attacks on human dignity and life. I am so used to people not being valued. I am so used to hearing about people being killed that it doesn’t phase me anymore. Don’t even ask me to watch a horror movie or go in a haunted house. But babies being ripped apart? Yeah, that’s happening. People being beheaded? Oh yeah, that ISIS thing has been going on for a while.
But THESE ARE HUMAN LIVES WE’RE TALKING ABOUT!
As someone who talks about the dignity of every single unrepeatable life, how do these stories not have a huge impact on me? How am I not sobbing at the thought of innocent lives being literally ripped apart?
You know, I don’t have a great answer. But I GET what Jenny said:
When I was younger I used to wonder about the German people and why nobody tried to get out ahead of Hitler, how an entire nation could have fallen under his evil spell.
Now I know. Now I see, firsthand, that none of us are immune to the horrors of our day. And that as the temperature rises, the frog slowly cooks, oblivious to his own imminent peril as the mercury creeps ever upward. And that at a certain point the human mind, when confronted with such appalling and obvious wickedness, shuts down or short circuits in cowardice or fear or apathy or, or, or …
I get it. I am so used to evil that it’s the norm.
I am the reason we still have abortion.
We all are.
Because we’re used to it and don’t fight it anymore. We accept that we’ve lost before the battle is over.
God, save us from our own blind selves. And renew in us the conviction to bring your light to a horribly fallen world. If we don’t speak up, nobody will.
Time to buckle up, friends. We’re in this war for the long haul. There is a giant Goliath of evil looming around us. But I have good news, and a bit of a spoiler: love, life, and truth ALWAYS win.
To Life,
A Drop in the Ocean 
Yes, you are so right. We’ve become used to evil being the norm in our morally relative society. I think of the “frog in the pot” syndrome a lot. It’s like we don’t even realize what’s happening until it smacks us in the face in the form of some horror like this incident. So much that needs our prayer and a world that needs evangelization in love.
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Yes! That’s exactly the concept Jenny talked about in the article I linked to. It’s so easy to get used to violence and all sorts of atrocities when we are confronted with them all the time. We need so much prayer to continue this battle without accepting evil as the norm.
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