The Northland Family Planning Centers of Michigan are treating everyone to the words “good” or “goodness” over and over again, ad nauseam in their 4 minute and 25 second promotional video. I really couldn’t believe how many times the speaker uttered those words, so I replayed the video and counted instances of “good” or “goodness.” I counted 18 in the 4 minute and 25 second video. I suppose they are believers in the old dictum, “repetition is the mother of all learning.” If you hear it repeated enough, you may actually come to believe it.

Northland would like you to believe that abortion is good. Mind you, Northland didn’t say anything about family planning, sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, sexual health, etc. Nope, their whole video was exclusively about abortion. And, their message was basically this: if you’re planning to get an abortion (or you’ve already had one) and you feel at all guilty or remorseful, then Northland (the experts!) is here to tell you, that’s just plain silly. How can you feel bad about something that’s intrinsically good like abortion? In fact, abortion is not only good . . . it’s sacred.

In the video, Northland promises to live by the words of a plaque hanging on their clinic’s wall, and which, according to the speaker, all staff at Northland revere. It reads:

“We do sacred work that honors women and the circle of life and death. When you come here, bring only love.”

If a person arrived at the clinic and really brought love . . . not the Hallmark feeling, but the truly sacred Agape . . . the person would most likely react like Miriam Virgo  and courageously keep her baby. That, of course, would be big trouble for Northland and its profits.

To equate the monstrous death trade of abortion . . .  by the way, equal in its inhumanity to any of the great evils in mankind’s history from the slave trade, to communism, to the Jewish Holocaust of WWII . . . with the sacred is a textbook example of blasphemy.  It is co-opting an attribute of the Deity, God, and applying it to something quite malevolent. 

I’m afraid we are entering a new era of religious confusion where statements like, “abortion is sacred,” are not immediately and severely ridiculed by the overwhelming majority of the population. This kind of severe moral confusion . . . nay, moral schizophrenia . . . is a sure sign of trouble at a societal level. What then is the cure? Well, a good start would be to tear down the idea of tolerance as an uber-value that supersedes all other values. It is this exploitation of the normal virtue of tolerance which enables moral relativism and thus enables Northland to call abortion . . . the murder a preborn person . . . a sacred act.