Do you ever experience multiple thoughts in your mind fighting for supremacy?  Most days, my mind feels like a rocky cliff upon which competing tides of ideas smash themselves, leaving the spray of individual motes floating down to join new idea tides and renew the cycle.  Some days, a hurricane of thoughts form off the coast and smash opposing ideas against each other, leaving my own current of thought ragged and choppy.  Some days are calm, with ideas few and far between; I enjoy those days just as much as the hurricane ones, for in variety is life.

And then there are the tsunamis.

You know the feeling, the one where something swells up inside you and swamps your every other thought?  Some people call it their ‘light bulb’ moment, others their ‘ah-ha’ moment…whatever floats your boat, as it were.  For me, that moment came today while listening to arguments on “Dreamers” and DACA – the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – and the continued use of the phrase, “through no fault of their own.”  It was such an interesting phrase that I had to give it some more thought.

Through no fault of their own (hereafter: TNFOTO), Dreamers were brought to this place.  TNFOTO, Dreamers cause hardships to those around them.  TNFOTO, Dreamers take resources from caretakers and governments and can’t repay their debt for decades.  TNFOTO, Dreamers are not considered citizens.  TNFOTO, Dreamers are considered a throwaway class by some.  TNFOTO, Dreamers are under assault by those who do not understand them.  TNFOTO, Dreamers are treated as political Ping-Pong balls without regard to their inherent worth as a human being.  TNFOTO, Dreamers will eventually live or die based on the choices of others.

Stark?  Maybe.

Now replace the word “Dreamers” with the phrase, “the Unborn”.

Here, I’ll do it for you:

Through no fault of their own (hereafter: TNFOTO), the Unborn were brought to this place.  TNFOTO, the Unborn cause hardships to those around them.  TNFOTO, the Unborn take resources from caretakers and governments and can’t repay their debt for decades.  TNFOTO, the Unborn are not considered citizens.  TNFOTO, the Unborn are considered a throwaway class by some.  TNFOTO, the Unborn are under assault by those who do not understand them.  TNFOTO, the Unborn are treated as political Ping-Pong balls without regard to their inherent worth as a human being.  TNFOTO, the Unborn will eventually live or die based on the choices of others.

These children didn’t ask to be brought into this world, but they still deserve the basic human rights of all other people on this beautiful marble hanging in space.  These children don’t know what our founders stated early on: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”  Self-evident…created equal…heavy stuff.

TNFOTO, all men are created equal.