There is a show called “What Would You Do?”. The basic premise is setting up a controversial situation, planting hidden cameras, and trying to get passer bys involved in standing up for the victims of social injustices. Some examples are bullying by peers in a public park, a boyfriend physically abusing a girlfriend, racial profiling of a black woman shopping, and neglect of a mother who has left their infant alone in a locked car in hot weather. The goal is for the people who witness these things to step in and say something, stand up for the victim, and get involved in other people’s business when it is detrimental to another human being.

I think if I had to pick one out that made me the most mad is the one where they had a gay or lesbian couple eating in a nice restaurant with a waiter who attacks them and their children, refuses them service, and asks them to leave. This happens more often than we think, and the misconception is that if we don’t agree with them on the subject of gay marriage or being gay in general, we shouldn’t stand up for them. The point in standing up for them is not standing up for them being gay, it’s standing up for them as human beings, who should still be treated with respect, regardless of sexual orientation or skin color or gender or age. Each human being deserves respect and the right to a peaceful dinner, or shopping day, or day at the park studying.

Human beings are being killed every single day by the horror of abortion, and we have to a great extent said that is none of my business. It is our business when innocent children each day are killed by the thousands because they are inconvenient to us. 93% of all abortions are elective. Just because a woman legally has the choice to kill her child in this country does not mean she is making the right choice. I have a choice to attack a lesbian couple, I have a choice to bully someone, I have a choice to discriminate against black people in my store, and I have a choice to hit my spouse, but just because I have that choice does not mean it is right.

Our choices affect everyone around us. It becomes our business when it begins to affect us, and what person on earth has not been affected by abortion? I guarantee you know someone (at least one) who has had an abortion. I guarantee that if you are born after January 22, 1973 that you are a survivor of the largest holocaust in history, and 1/3 of your generation has been killed by abortion. Your sisters, your brothers, your cousins, your friends. Gone. And we’re still saying it’s none of our business?

Stop being afraid of stepping on people’s toes and do the right thing. Make the right choice. Because you do have one. But this is about integrity and life, not choice.

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