thoughts on the news of the day: control

hmmm…..

            I’m trying to think about what I think about the news today.  A 9-year old girl in Alabama was forced to run for three hours and tragically sucumbed from the punishment her grandmother and stepmother meted upon her.  In another news item, eleven children were confined to a 10 by 10 darkened bedroom in Texas and three of those children were tethered to their beds.  Moms out of control.

            Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has made all sort of claims on the rights of women.  He seems to be promoting all sorts of restrictions on a women’s freedom to control her body and therefore affect the birth (or non-birth) of babies.  The state of Virginia is debating the plausability of forcing women to have an ultra sound examination prior to aborting their babies.

            It’s a tangled mess.  Some mothers probably don’t need to have children; they sometimes abuse them and cause them great pain and even death.  On the other hand, I wonder if women are ever coerced to believe that the best choice for all concerned is to abort their baby.  Probably. 

            In all of the examples mentioned above, it is a case of someone trying to control the life of another.   Who has that right and when?  I choose not to have the power to control another person; I try to leave that up to God.  Let’s face it, in the end, God has the power to control anyway.

            hmmm…..