There was an interesting juxtapositioning of two stories in The Salt Lake Tribune this week.
Utah state Sen. Dan McCay proposes to eliminate all abortions in Utah. Teja Trujillo bemoans that police weren’t excited to search for her missing son, Keith “Chino” Fulcher.
On the one hand, McCay wants all lives to be born, arguing that human life begins at conception, thus proclaiming that society has a responsibility to give birth to all conceived human lives.
On the other hand, Trujillo wants every human life valued equally, even those who are homeless, on drugs, have criminal records, etc., and born to mothers who begin to have sex and make babies as 15-year-old children, thus placing on society the responsibility to take care of every life equally.
This is an interesting conundrum. As members of society who elect lawmakers who make our laws, and who pay taxes to enforce and uphold them, we are to support both having all children and providing and paying for a way to raise, educate and provide means for making meaningful contributions for all babies.
Either McCay needs to add this to his bill or Trujillo needs to resign herself to having little value to society.
Sad, isn’t it?
L. Cameron Mosher, Holladay