Peter Singer is at Princeton-I only briefly read his book "Animal Liberation"which was published in 1975!! I so agreed with his determination that we must honor animals because they can suffer and know joy therefore they are more like us than not-I was born with that instinct. I understand that his stance on infanticide when the child is born with apparently impossible defects such as no arms and legs and retarded-I even shocked someone into hating me when I stood up for the earlier mothers and fathers who practiced infanticide a brutal decision by people living brutal lives. I have long been a supporter of abortion and Peter Singer realized that abortion is also infanticide which I also have come to agree with after two women in my life had second semester abortions which were ugly and the pain of which I still carry in my body-the first one hit me when I was at work and I felt the anger of the helpless being crying out from the pain of death. And I also know the unbearable pain of children born to women so wounded that their mother archetype cannot function the pain may be poverty, drugs,insanity, abandonment but at any rate they cannot nurture and protect and educate the young life. AND I also know that there is healing to be found in Christianity when it is practiced by the truely converted not the molested and tortured who practice religion only because they fear the world and they fear Hell. I know that in my old aage I decided that I would rather raise a child myself than see another abortion and I am no good mother-too battered myself-but I no longer believe that late term abortions are a reasonable choice they are in fact the murder of the helpless. However I don't stand for the unborn before I stand for the woman caught in this dilemma-I know only too well the agony of bbirth when one cannot support the life, doesn't have the whatever within to support and nurture that life. women left to their own devises will sstop pregnancy eaarly not later and we know that communities have practiced infanticide and euthanasia through out our history.
I think that this frightens me so in that it brings up the darkness that I don't like, that I fear, that other Americans try to deny. The Nazis embodied all that we would deny and now it is our turn and what will we do when things get really hard? As an astrologer I see the years of Uranus square Pluto coming up-I fear a populist urising
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