Truth from Dr. Seuss

Lots of folks blogged Thursday and Friday of last week about the SCOTUS decision to uphold a ban on partial birth abortions. I read some of those posts Friday, while waiting for call-backs on yet another food-borne outbreak.

I have nothing to add to those psts; there's enough out there describing this procedure, which only arose from haste and laziness, and which has no place in a civilized society or humane medical practice. It is not "choice"...it is barbarism.

I had this issue floating in the back of my head Friday night as we sat in the audience for the school musical: Seussical, Jr. (based on Seussical, the Musical.)

All the while that Little Jojo (a Who from Who-ville) was being encouraged to be an independent thinker...

If you open your mind,
Oh, the Thinks you will find
Lining up to get loose!
Oh, the Thinks you can think!
Oh, the Thinks you can think
When you think about Seuss!!

...we in the audience are being reminded over and over again by Horton the elephant that:

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Think for yourself AND defend the powerless. Some would find that contradictory; I find it wonderfully subversive and counter cultural. Stand up for what is right, even if you are called:

The biggest blame fool in the jungle of Nool.

Sounds like the recipe for creating more saints in our time.