The Silent Conflict

A couple of nights ago I was watching 60 Minutes whilst doing the dishes. The first section was on a topic I bet you weren't expecting to read about in this here blog of mine.

Male infertility.

Woah. I bet you're thinking.

Why the heck is going to talk about that? You're probably wondering.

I've actually probably put you off my blog entirely. But hey, it's on my mind. This is my mind. If you knew everything that went on in my mind you'd be more than a little freaked out.

First let me summarise the point of the feature.

Apparently New Zealand males have the lowest fertility rate in the world (meaning that it's hard to have kids, in case you don't know what that means). And it's only getting worse. Without going into details, largely cos I'm really not entirely sure of what the heck it all means, basically a heck of a lot of young couples who are trying to and want to have kids just don't seem to be able to--some even after several years of trying! Why this is, we have yet to discover.

Although I'm sure you're content with what I've given you so far, that actually is not the reason for this blog. At least, not all of it.

What really gets to me is that there are so many couples out there who are trying desperately to get pregnant, and just can't. It totally and completely sucks for them. They'd give practically anything to have a kid or two of their own.

Yet on the other side of things, thousands of babies a legally killed every year in New Zealand. I believe the amount lies somewhere around 18,000. I could sugar-coat it and call it the common name, abortion, but it's murder. It's wrong.

Whether you agree with me on this point or not, surely you can all see the slight dilemma we have here. Why is it that those who don't want to get pregnant do, and those would want to so badly just can't? Especially for those trying, it must be incredibly painful to not be able to have the gift of children, when so many are just being killed off every day, unwanted. It's not fair. At all. It makes me mad.

Who gave us the right to decide who gets to live and who must die before they are even born? Everyone argues left, right and centre about this issue all the time, yet the only people who never get a say are the little children who's lives are in the balance. It's not right.

There are many things about society that I don't agree with, but most of all right now, there is one huge issue that just won't stop nagging me.

It's the silent conflict that no one seems to be speaking up about.

How come there are so many miserable couples, unable to get kids of their own in any way, yet there are so many thousands of unborn children killed every year?