Rest of the story

Paul Harvey was a radio new personality who had a segment each day on his broadcast called, the rest of the story. He would tell the first part of a story and when he later told the rest it changed the story completely. He illustrated the fact that you need the whole picture to determine the true meaning. If a man rapes and kills an innocent girl and the father of the girl kills the rapist those are both murders but under quite different circumstances and should be judged accordingly. When a woman has an abortion because of a mistake is different than a woman who uses abortion as a form of birth control. The first goes through the painful process of decision making while the second sees it as an inconvenience. You cannot bandy about words like murder and abortion without including the context. Sometimes those on the periphery of an action are faced with difficulty. The doctor who performs the abortion sucks out a mass of human tissue and then must go through it to count all the parts, all the little feet and fingers and make sure all the parts are found. Can this person look at this collection of parts and not see a baby. Is the ability to deny this a matter of cognitive dissonance. Things are not as simple as they first seem.