No One Could Know

Today’s world makes no sense. The headline from ModernFarmer.com states that plants can tell when they’re being eaten.

“Eating a leaf off a plant may not kill it, but that doesn’t mean the plant likes it,” the article states. “The newest study to examine the intelligence (or at least behavior) of plants finds that plants can tell when they’re being eaten — and send out defenses to stop it from happening.”

My awe of the article is not in that plants are considered “intelligent” or elicit behaviors, but that the same people who vie for the life of trees or demand rights for sea turtle eggs are the same who vehemently deny that a baby’s life begins at conception.

What’s worse is that they acknowledge that the baby in the womb is indeed alive — yet fight for the right to KILL the human inside.

When writing my book, “No One Could Know,” I was advised by numerous people that I should not use the words “kill” or “murder” when describing abortion.

Yet at the time I “pulled the trigger” so-to-speak, I knew that’s exactly what was happening.

Technically, when a plant is being eaten — by animal or human — yes, its life is being “sacrificed” for the life of another. I’ve often felt sad for fish that are caught and released — or kept — and wondered what type of pain they must experience in their nervous systems upon their capture.

So what are we soft-hearted people to do? As crazy as it sounds, plants and animals were put on earth to sustain humans. We need more than air to survive.

But sadness turns to despair and grief when the life of a precious, innocent baby is taken from what should be the safest place on earth — the mother’s womb.

The article reported, “When the plants felt or heard the caterpillar-munching vibrations, they sent out extra mustard oils into the leaves. When they felt or heard other vibrations? Nothing. It’s a far more dynamic defense than scientists had realized: the plant is more aware of its surroundings and able to respond than expected.”

How much more, a human?