People will always fight for their highest level of morality. And so we should.
However, morality originates from different places in different people. Others and their well-being can be my utmost priority. Or, myself and my own well-being will be my first priority. It cannot be both. It will never be both. And this is where our differences become holy wars.
One of the greatest attributes of human beings is the power to connect, uplift and protect one another. By caring for our neighbors and communities, we rise above the most grievous adversities together. The pandemic has taught us this. Caring for another is caring for myself.
We’ve also witnessed the opposite. Truthfully, it’s easy to fall into the trap of self-preservation in times of fear, pain and loss. Suddenly the number one priority becomes me and guarding that which would preserve my existence and comfort, even to the detriment of others.
It’s not a right or left issue. It’s a human default.
In a time when we’re supposed to be “better together,” Mainers are facing the most abhorrent expanse on abortion legislation in the country. Gov. Janet Mills is fighting for us to make ourselves our first priority at the extreme price of the lives of the voiceless and unborn.
We Mainers are better than this. I reject the proposed bill to expand legal abortion to the point of birth in our state.
I stand for the lives of the unborn.
Miranda Burdo, Rumford
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