This Is What a Mother Looks Like After an Abortion

I disagree. I see kindness, gentleness and compassion, and that he’s speaking to an audience, not to that particular woman (God save her), likely in a context where this clip may be just a portion. Were he to have been more ‘personal’, his message may have more closely followed the pattern of network ‘news’; wherein the story is emptied, and the viewers memory is purged of real content in/by providing all feelings, all the time.

Of course, the SS men who were directly involved in the murder of Jews and other civilians were traumatized by it, too. Himmler himself recognized this, and he praised them for their sacrifice in overcoming their scruples in service to the Reich. Part of the reason for the dehumanization of the death camps was to make the guards feel they weren’t actually killing HUMANS, so that they could suppress their consciences.

It is fashionable to talk of mercy for mothers who murdered their own children. It is not fashionable to talk about mercy for Germans who murdered Jews. I am not in a position to either give or to deny mercy to either, nor am I in a position to give or to deny justice to either. Neither are you. That lies with God, Who is not concerned with fashion, and Who is both infinitely more merciful and infinitely more just than any of us.