if We do Nothing, the Most Silent of Deaths will Continue

   If we remain silent, the unborn will continue to go to silent graves. As Edmund Burke put it, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
   I think of the unborn, of the estimate 1.2 million of them whose lives are taken each year (just in America). I think of a meme pointing out that since they cannot speak, we must speak for them. I think of the protests across America for blacks and against police brutality, and wish America were also so resolute about  stopping the loss of lives of the unborn.
   Surely, there can be no more silent of graves than those of the unborn. They are put in medical wastebaskets, taken out with medical trash, and buried as medical trash. And, they go there without funerals, without obituaries, without headstones, without tears from their families -- and without any expression of love towards them.
   Miss them? Who misses them?
   But, it is time that we do. And, since this cause, it is just, if we do rise to our feet, pickets and signs in hand, if we do march and protest -- all across America -- if we do rise up and demand an end to this mass injustice, our voices will be heard and change will be wrought.
   No question.
   When a nation rises in protest, the powers that be will bend. It has ever been so. We need but heed Edmund Burke's suggestion to not do nothing, and change will come.
   But, if we do nothing, the most silent of deaths will continue,