Exigency

A CASE OR SITUATION THAT DEMANDS PROMPT ACTION OR REMEDY; EMERGENCY. "Never, never will we desist till we have wiped away this scandal from the Christian name, released ourselves from the load of guilt, under which we at present labor, and extinguished every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonor to this country." William Wilberforce

March 21, 2012

Am I Not a Person?

I recently watched the old b&w "To Be or Not To Be"(1942) and one of the characters quoted Shylock, though he was speaking of racial/religious injustice I thought it spoke well on the issue of abortion.
So I will take some liberties with the wording:

I am a person.
Hath not a person eyes?
Hath not a person hands, organs, dimensions, senses...
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you poison us, do we not die?